Lesson Review 0 ABE May 2005

Monday, May 02, 2005 8 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Crossword puzzle and current event today. Good participation and excellent discussions

regarding the articles we read. Class had a lot of opinions about the new Pope and the

Catholic Church in General. We read an article about the increase in teen use of pain pills.

Good discussion on that topic also. Good class today.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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TABE testing today.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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TABE testing.

Thursday, May 05, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Relationships & Computation)

Did some reading about mysterious disappearances. Some finished TABES. One student

took assessment pilot test on computer. We did a couple of math crossword puzzles

focusing on X8 and X3 and spelling out the words for the numbers.

Monday, May 09, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Acquire more organizational strategies (Writing) Spacer

Started doing some formal invitations and then write a formal response to the invitation.

Most of the class had a hard time with this activity. A couple people were able to do it fairly

well. We also did a "drill" activity on sentence fragments. All this is to move them toward

being able to construct a paragraph that makes sense and is grammatically correct. Our long

term goal is to be able to write an essay.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Awareness and control of tone & style (Writing) Recognize a variety of genres & styles (Reading) Spacer

Introduced cinquains to the class. Read several, learned how to construct a cinquain.

Students wrote 2 poems each and shared them with the larger group. Discussed the various

kinds and styles of poetry. Read and discussed poem by Edgar Guest called "Myself," "The

Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe and some amusing epitaphs from the 1800's. Good class!!!

Student

Male 45.00 -- 59.99

Writing poetry is hard. You can't force it, it has to flow. You need to have time to think about it. This

class wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Relationships & Computation)

Did several math worksheets using crossword puzzles to solve equations. Worked from

equation to answer and from answer to equation. Class did well with them even though they

grumbled at first. Everyone participated and did well helping one another. Croswords

encompassed everything from addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and

averages. Good exercises!

Student

Male 18.00 -- 24.99

I like doing math because I know all my numbers. I have a hard time with reading because I don't

know all my words.

Thursday, May 12, 2005 7 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Did some work with dependent and independent clauses. Class also did some practice on

verb tenses. Read and rewrote a paragraph making all the verb tenses agree.

Student

Male 18.00 -- 24.99

(His example to show he understood dependent and independent clauses) If I have to do much more

of this, I'm going to puke.

Monday, May 16, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Did crossword puzzle. Read a couple articles in the News for You. Wrote a letter to the

President supporting his Teacher of the Year nomination (this was just for writing practice,

not really being sent). Wrote a couple cinquains for additional writing practice. Looked at

some Andy Warhol art as a follow-up to an article about him.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Relationships & Computation)

Math crosswords puzzles.

Thursday, May 19, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

--Learners' "PLACE" in relationship to the rest of the world (Environments & Interdependence) Spacer

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

Did some individual math work. Did group activity…The US Citizenship Test. Didn't finish

all of it but had fun with it.

Monday, May 23, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Express thoughts in writing (Writing) Spacer

Did some writing practice using a writing prompts sheet. Class seemed to really like it. Came

up with some good written responses. Second activity involved writing a poem in the shape

of a diamond using writing prompts again. Students shared their writing s with the large

group. Both activities were very successful in getting students to write.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Develop reading Vocabulary (Reading) Spacer

We started a review of vocabulary associated with our Holocaust readings. I created a

crossword puzzle using many of the words from our word list. It was difficult for class as we

had not done a vocabulary review for sometime. Overall the class did well with it.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics (Writing) Represent and use numbers in a variety of Spacer

equivalent forms and in order relations (Number Relationships & Computation)

Worked on individual math. Did a writing exercise using compare and contrast. Class had

some difficulty with it, so we will be reviewing it again next week.

Thursday, May 26, 2005 3 Learners present. 2.5 hours

-- Awareness and control of tone & style (Writing) Spacer

More work with comparing and contrasting. Used Venn diagrams to try to get them to

understand the concept more. Gave them some extra exercises for "homework."

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5 Learners present. 2.5 hours

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

Current events…read some articles and did some writing exercises in response to questions

about the articles. Did a crossword puzzle.