Lesson Review 0 ABE Morning September 2005

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 4 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Went over student handbook and the attendance policy.

Discussed the plans for the classes for the next few months.

Students wrote a page addressing these questions: What are your goals for the next three

months? What do you need to be doing to accomplish them? What needs to be happening in

class to help you to achieve these goals.

Started watching a video on Auschwitz.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Individual math.

Thursday, September 08, 2005 5 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Worked on some poetry exercises. Class created their own poems and shared them with larger

group. Worked on crossword puzzles. Good class!

Monday, September 12, 2005 6 Learners Present 2.5 hours

General overview of things in the news. Some writing practice doing some poems in various

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Gave class a blank map of the US and asked them to fill the states in. Most students did pretty

well. Most knew at least 20 states. We then did about 40 questions from the citizenship

questionnaire. Class enjoyed it and asked many questions to get more information about specific

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Group math review and individual math.

Thursday, September 15, 2005 8 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Increased knowledge of grammar rules (Writing)

Did a noun and verb review. Class practiced several activities picking out nouns, verb and

pronouns. They really enjoyed the activities and asked for extra work to practice over the

Monday, September 19, 2005 7 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Awareness of rules for grammar and mechanics (Writing)

Did some exercises with verb tenses and subject/verb agreement. Class had a lot of problems

with this activity. Will need to continue to work on this.

Discussed with the class the need for them to be able to work more independently on their

work. I want them to be able to keep busy during indivdual time and need me to lead the

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Influence of production, distribution, and consumption on individual decision making (Production, Distribution, & Consumption)

Class began by watching video of the beginnings of the Civil War. We later did a "quiz"

together in order to see what people already knew about the Civil war.

Did a crossword puzzle for fun.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5 Learners Present 2.5 hours

individual math

Thursday, September 22, 2005 6 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Continued working on some grammar exercises that we had started earlier. Reviewed pronouns

and did a whole subject/verb agreement exercise. Class had some real difficulty so we will

continue to do this from time to time.

Monday, September 26, 2005 6 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Class began doing a spelling review. Went well. Students struggled with a number of the

activities and words but slogged through them anyway. Class will develop a spelling word list to

use in building sentences and doing a "test."

Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Relationship between production, distribution and consumption patterns to political and cultural systems (Production,

Distribution, & Consumption)

began using a new history book today. Students did some silent reading about the Civil War

and then did some exercises, including fact and opinion, sequencing and some true/false.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6 Learners Present 2.5 hours

Discover and use patterns and functions to represent and solve problems (Patterns, Relationships & Functions)

Class practiced %…. Recognizing per cents, converting percents to fractions to decimals and

back again. They did extremely well.

Thursday, September 29, 2005 4 Learners Present 2.5 hours

The importance of recognizing patterns of change and how that helps us understand our world (Patterns of Change)

Reviewed some science books. Chose to work from all 3 at different levels.

Began a unit on animals and how their environments force adaptations in how they live, what

they look like, how and what they eat.