Lesson Review          1 ASE Morning                November 2004

Tuesday, November 30, 2004        8 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --Dynamics among power, authority, and participation (Power, Authority, & Participation)  Express thoughts

 in writing (Writing) Development of comprehension strategies (Reading)  Recognize there is not always a

"right" answer (Critical Thinking)   UNDERSTANDS SYSTEMS -  Social, organizational & technical systems -

and operating effectively with them (Systems (Understanding Complex Relationships)

Freedom Of Speech

When does someone have the right to restrict another person's speech? What could give them that right? What are the basic arguments FOR Freedom of Speech?

The class wrote in response to those prompts and out of the following discussion we defined "slander"

and "libel" as false speech (or writing) that causes injury.

We also classified speech situations by place, time, and "who".  It also came out that "Freedom of

Speech" is considered a basic AMERICAN right.

Then we read some quotations from Federalists supporting the Sedition Act of 1798.  The Federalists

were actually able to pass a law punishing speech critical of the government in a time of war and

uncertainty.  There was a lot of difficult vocabulary in those quotes.

Then people wrote again with the knowledge that Free Speech has been restricted by Congress in the

past.

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Monday, November 29, 2004        9 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Learn strategies for organization (Writing)      WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in

writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)

Writing Prompt: Describe a time when it was important for you (or somebody else) to speak up.

People worked very quietly and intently.  Some people were able to type up their drafts and start

revising. They could also confer with the instructor, a volunteer, and a visiting instructor to work out

certain writing issues.  One person wrote a short vignette which was posted to the web.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 6 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --   Develop reading Vocabulary (Reading)   Represent and use numbers in a variety of equivalent forms and

in order relations (Number Relationships & Computation)  MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations;

approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques (Basic Skills)

Math: Ratios, Percent, Proportions

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004        7 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --        KNOW HOW TO LEARN - Use efficient learning techniques to acquire & apply new knowledge & skills

(Thinking Skills)

Social Studies: US Maps: Learning the States

By the end of the class, most students had learned at least 5 more states then they had known before. 

Some learners were pretty close to learning all 50 of them.

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Monday, November 22, 2004        7 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics (Writing)      WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas &

information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions, reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)

Active Verbs: Converting passive constructions to active constructions, finding more vivid verb

synonyms.

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Thursday, November 18, 2004     5 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Express thoughts in writing (Writing)     How everything is made up of a small number of building blocks

(Similarity and Diversity) KNOW HOW TO LEARN - Use efficient learning techniques to acquire & apply new

knowledge & skills (Thinking Skills)

Protein Synthesis: Final Exam!

Learners could choose 2 activities out of 5.  Most people wrote extensively and productively on the

evaluation questions.    And everybody chose the recall items and did very well.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9 Learners present.                                                       2 hours

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Birthday Party for The Literacy Project

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004        9 Learners present.                                                       3 hours

  --        KNOW HOW TO LEARN - Use efficient learning techniques to acquire & apply new knowledge & skills

(Thinking Skills)

History Trivia Game (Combined Class)

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Monday, November 15, 2004        9 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics (Writing)     

Finding Verbs

Class was run by Sarah.

Read (and Listened to) Bob Dylan songs.  Picked out the verbs (and nouns)

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Thursday, November 11, 2004     7 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Develop writing vocabulary (Writing) Develop reading Vocabulary (Reading)    How everything is made

up of a small number of building blocks (Similarity and Diversity) KNOW HOW TO LEARN - Use efficient

learning techniques to acquire & apply new knowledge & skills (Thinking Skills)

Protein Synthesis:

 Review of all the Stages and a crossword puzzle to review the terminology.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10 Learners present.                                                 3.25 hours

  --      Represent and use numbers in a variety of equivalent forms and in order relations (Number Relationships

 & Computation)  MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing

from a variety of math techniques (Basic Skills)

Converting Fractions to Decimals

Used a recipe and converted all the measurements to decimal form.

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Tuesday, November 09, 2004        9 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Awareness and control of tone & style (Writing)      Participate as a TEAM MEMBER - Contribute to group

effort (Interpersonal Skills (Working with Others))

Word Game - "Stump the Chumps" - changing word forms

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Monday, November 08, 2004        8 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Express thoughts in writing (Writing) Development of comprehension strategies (Reading)  Recognize

there is not always a "right" answer (Critical Thinking)   READING - Locate, understand & interpret written

information in prose and documents (manuals, graphs, and schedules) (Basic Skills)

Reading: " A Story of an Hour"

Discussion of relationships in the modern world.

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Thursday, November 04, 2004     10 Learners present.                                                 3.25 hours

  --   Development of comprehension strategies (Reading)    How everything is made up of a small number of

building blocks (Similarity and Diversity) READING - Locate, understand & interpret written information in

prose and documents (manuals, graphs, and schedules) (Basic Skills)

Protein Synthesis: Stage 3: Protein Folding and Function

Did a Close reading activity going over the final stage of protein synthesis.  Also did a demonstration of

 the 4 structural levels of a protein using a long strip of paper to represent the polypeptide chain

twisting into a helix, folding into a 3 dimensional shape, and combining with another "glob".

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Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --      Compute with whole numbers, fractions, decimals & integers using appropriate algorithms and a variety

 of techniques (Number Relationships & Computation)  MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations;

approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques (Basic Skills)

Reviewed subtraction with Decimals and practice multiplying with decimals.

People started practicing learning the states with blank maps.

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Tuesday, November 02, 2004        4 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --Means and varieties of civic participation (Power, Authority, & Participation)  Develop writing vocabulary

 (Writing) Develop reading Vocabulary (Reading)     READING - Locate, understand & interpret written

information in prose and documents (manuals, graphs, and schedules) (Basic Skills)

Political Vocabulary and going out to vote.

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Monday, November 01, 2004        8 Learners present.                                                  3.25 hours

  --  Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics (Writing) Develop reading Vocabulary (Reading)    

WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in writing; Create documents (letters, directions,

reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)

Reading  & Writing: The Appositive

The GED readings are loaded with parentheticals that often explain unfamiliar terms.  Practice with

sentences.

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