Good week, gentlemen. Real quick:
All Compers: Quiz Monday on quoting "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. The format of the quiz will be identical to Class Exercises 37 and 38, posted to the left.
8th Graders: Your Animal Farm essays are due next Friday. Get cracking this weekend on thesis development.
7th Graders: We started High Noon today. We'll keep watching until we finish, and then you'll have about a week more to work on the High Noon essays. Proof those "Ulysses" essays closely, gentlemen; you don't want your redos to start piling up.
HOOPER PROJECT: First off, congrats to Jimmy O'Hooper for cashing in on last night's financial-themed Hoopers: the dollar became our official currency in 1785, our central regulating bank is the Federal Reserve, and our first Secretary of the Treasury was Alexander Hamilton. Good job to all who got their two cents in on those.
This weekend, in honor of the 8th grade's conquest of George Orwell's classic Animal Farm, some Hoopers about that most Hooperific of political ideologies. Five points to the first, and two to each additional Comper who can tell me: (a) What Soviet dictator once banged his shoe on a table during a speech at the United Nations?, (b) What American State Department official was accused of communist espionage, imprisoned for perjury, and eventually proven to be a Soviet spy?, (c) What Chinese communist leader oversaw the killing of 60 million people?, and (d) What Combodian communist leader oversaw the killing of one-quarter his countrymen in the late 1970s?
Ugh... communism's a downer...
Okay, to end on a positive note: two additional points to any Comper who can tell me the name of the awesomely ridiculous 1985 movie about a bunch of Colorado teenagers who fight a preposterous guerilla war against an invading communist army? Wolverines!
