Lesson Review 3 ASE Evening May 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004 3 Learners present. 2 hours
--How different
perspectives on human behavior, interactions, and history affect people's
understanding of the
world.
(Perspective & Interpretation) social, cultural, political, economic, and
environmental system, and how they
impact
health (Systems and Interdependence) Express thoughts in writing (Writing)
Strategic Reading (Reading)
Distinguish
between fact & opinion (Critical Thinking)
communicate how different systems relate to and interact
with
each other (Systems)
Pro Choice v Pro Life
It was a small class but
everyone had been present for the Abortion discussion (Roe v. Wade) on
Tuesday, and they all said
that they had been thinking about it.
We started by making a
framework for looking at the arguments for and against abortion. We decided
that such arguments could
be "emotional", "factual", "legal",
"historical", "personal" or "social". We also
identified what may well be
the key arguments for both sides:
"Right of a woman to choose what happens
to her own body" or
"Right of the unborn to a life".
We started writing to a
template: "Some people believe ________________, but I believe
______________________
. I believe this because
_______________________________________"
While people were writing,
Joe found arguments from both sides on the internet. We read through some
of them and then started to
identify them as ""emotional", "factual", "legal",
"historical", "personal" or
"social",
"Medical/Scientific", "Religious/Moral" and/or
"logical"
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4 Learners present. 2 hours
Individual
math work.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6 Learners present. 2 hours
--Differences between
fact, opinion, and interpretation (Perspective & Interpretation) social,
cultural, political,
economic,
and environmental system, and how they impact health (Systems and
Interdependence) Express thoughts
in
writing (Writing) Recognize there is
not always a "right" answer (Critical Thinking)
Landmark
Supreme Court Cases, Abortion, Laws, and Morality
We started out mostly doing
individual writing, research, and reading.
(Most people were working on
their Supreme Court
Case). Then (based on Roe v. Wade) we
discussed the rights of women, the rights
of the unborn, the rights
of fathers while trying to think about how "Laws" are not exactly the
same as
"Morality" (ideas
about right and wrong).
Some questions: How
important are emotional arguments as opposed to factual arguments?
"How should laws
take into account different rights and different ideas about "right and
wrong"?
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 6 Learners present. 2 hours
--Complexity of managing
and resolving conflict (Conflict & Resolution) Express thoughts in writing (Writing)
Strategic
Reading (Reading)
Supreme
Court Cases
After some discussion and
overview we agreed to split up some famous "landmark" supreme Court
cases
to research, discuss, and write up.
Roger took US v.
Nixon, Candice took Brown v. Board of
Ed., Venus took Dred Scott v.
Stanford,
Joe H. took Cherokee Nation
v. Georgia, and Shannon took Roe v. Wade.
Juanita chose University of
California v. Bakke (One learner worked on her letter to the
editor.)
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6 Learners present. 2 hours
Individual
math and writing.
Group decided that they
really want to have Thursday nights alternate social studies and science.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6 Learners present. 2 hours
-- Express thoughts in writing (Writing)
Writing
Lab
One person worked on her
resume. Several worked on essays. One student did a mini Science research
project and started writing about various early hominid
species. One person worked on her GED
pretest, AND one guy did
MATH.
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Thursday, May 13, 2004 2 Learners present. 2 hours
Tiny
class…individual math with Jeanne.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4 Learners present. 2 hours
Worked
on practice tests, individual essays, and math
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4 Learners present. 2 hours
-- Express thoughts in writing (Writing)
Testing
and Individual Writing Projects
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 4 Learners present. 2 hours
Class
worked on Pre-tests.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4 Learners present. 2 hours
-- Represent and use numbers in a variety
of equivalent forms and in order relations (Number Relationships &
Computation)
Math…individual.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5 Learners present. 2 hours
-- Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics
(Writing)
Sentence
Combining Exercises.
Joe would write short
sentences on the board. We tried to
combine them. We tried to combine them
into longer sentences. Sometimes we had to use special combining
words. One group of combining
words includes
"and", "but", and "or". Another group of combining words start with "wh" (who,
what,
when, etc.). We tried to come up with the shortest combined
sentences. We counted the words. It was
like a game. We liked some long sentences better than
other long sentences.
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