Lesson Review 1 ASE Morning December 2005

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Thursday, December 01, 2005 8 Learners Present 3.25 hours

How order and organization are based on similarities and differences (Order and Organization)

The Linnaean Classification System:

Discussion:

What is a classification system: an orderly way of grouping (or dividing) things into categories

based on similarities and differences

What is the Linnaean Classification System - a way of grouping all living things into 5 Kingdoms

with many sub groupings

What are the classification levels in the Linnaean System - Kingdoms, Phyla, Classes, Orders,

Families, Genera, Species

What are the five Kingdoms in the Linnaean System? - Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plants, Animals

Why do some scientists want to replace the Linnaean System? - There are too many exceptions

(sub phyla and super orders etc.). Also it does not reflect the developments suggested by the

theory of evolution.

We also did some GED practice reading about Arthropods - a phylum in the Animal kingdom

that includes the "classes" Insects and Arachnids (spiders)

Student Comments

Female 18.00 -- 24.99

I talked about evolution with the class as well as wrote down notes.

Monday, December 05, 2005 7 Learners Present 3.25 hours

The Civil War: The Battles of Gettysburg and the Fall of Vicksburg.

We watched episode 5 of the Ken Burns documentary, took notes, and discussed the turning

point of the Civil War in July 1863.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Tabe Testing

Student Comments

Male 18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] I kept my focus.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Tabe Testing

Student Comments

Female 18.00 -- 24.99

I like working individually.

Thursday, December 08, 2005 8 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Tabe Testing and Owl Pilot Testing

Student Comments

Female 45.00 -- 59.99

I took the test on Reading & Math and I found that I was given a Math that my teacher doesn't teach.

Female 18.00 -- 24.99

Math is like rotten garbage sometimes.

Monday, December 12, 2005 5 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Owl Testing and Individual Learning Time.

Student Comments

Female 16.00 -- 17.99

I learned where India is.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Effect of continuity and change on societies and individuals (Continuity & Change)

How order and organization are based on similarities and differences (Order and Organization)

Civil War Review

People were asked to make a quick chronology of the Civil War - which we quickly compiled

and reviewed.

Then we read the film makers notes on the final episode of Ken Burn's Civil War Series. After

watching the video, we discussed our notes.

Student Comments

Male 18.00 -- 24.99

[Next Steps] I am clueless[.] I am paying attention more cause I am taking my test soon.

Female 18.00 -- 24.99

I learned that a girl named Mary was hung because she owned the house where the people who

planned the assassination of Lincoln met.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Tabe Testing and Individual Math Time

Student Comments

Male 16.00 -- 17.99

I worked well today.

Female 16.00 -- 17.99

I learned about abusive relationships.

Thursday, December 15, 2005 7 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Testing and Individual Learning Time

Monday, December 19, 2005 7 Learners Present 3.25 hours

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

Write at greater length in response to a topic or question (Writing)

Writing:

Prompt: What one habit would be most helpful towards achieving your educational and life

goals?

Perseverance - working hard despite difficulties - not giving up

Openness - willingness to think about new ideas and information

Patience - awareness that change takes time

Reflectiveness - willingness to look at yourself, your thoughts, your work, your styles

Planfullness - ability to set goals and break them down into steps.

Student Comments

Female 16.00 -- 17.99

[I learned today because . . .] it was something interesting.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Strategic Reading (Reading)

READING - Locate, understand & interpret written information in prose and documents (manuals, graphs, and schedules)

Use knowledge of cause and effect to predict, understand & explain phenomena (Predictablity)

Civil War - Cause and Effects

Reading, GED item practice, discussion and questioning.

The Civil War was caused by a conflict over whether slavery should be allowed to spread into

western states and territories.

The election of Abraham Lincoln demonstrated that the South had very little political power in

the Union as a whole. This caused a series of Secessions

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves. It only freed slaves in rebel territories.

The effects of the Proclamation were to 1) Encourage Northerners with a clear moral cause, 2)

Keep England out of the War, 3)Reduce the labor available to the South 4) Increase the

manpower available to the North (200,000 ex slaves joined the Union Army) while 5) keeping

the loyal slave states securely on the Union side.

After the Civil War the following Amendments to the Constitution were ratified:

1. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery

2. The 14th Amendment guaranteed equal rights to all citizens (black or white)

3. The 15th Amendment allowed all adult male (black or white) citizens to vote.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Individual Learning Time while preparing for the Renaissance FEAST!

Some people prepared food. Others worked on their Math or writing. A few played Geosense,

and a few looked up colleges.

Then while listening to Renaissance music we ate:

Chicken Limonia

Spit Roast Meat with Egerdouce Sauce

Wastels

Salad

and . . . For desert . . .

Rosy Almond Cream

Real Mince pie

Thursday, December 22, 2005 4 Learners Present 3.25 hours

Where and why there is conflict (Conflict & Resolution)

Roughshod History

Only a few people showed up following yesterday's feast.

Some people tried the Civil War Quiz on Moodle, and then wanted to review.

We quickly went over:

The Compromise of 1820 (which meant going back to the Declaration of Independence in 1776

and the Constitution in 1787)

The Mexican American War

The Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Kansas Nebraska Act

The Dred Scott Decision

The Election of 1860