Lesson
Review 1 ASE
Morning January
2005
Monday, January 31,
2005 11
Learners present. 3.25
hours
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Express thoughts in writing (Writing) WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in
writing; Create documents (letters,
directions, reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)
Writing:
For those who were not already working on a writing project, the prompt
was:
"COMPARE AN INTEREST THAT YOU HAVE TO SOMETHING YOU CONSIDER
IMPORTANT TO YOUR LIFE: DO THEY HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP? HOW DO NON
VITAL INTERESTS ADD TO YOUR LIFE?"
This got us into a discussion about sentence and phrase structures using
the verb "compare" which
usually carries the word "to" (compare TO) although the
"to" is not always right next to the word
"compare" (Compare __________________ to
________________., or Compare *the
American
Revolution* to *the French Revolution* or Compare how Shakespeare used a
ghost as a dramatic
device in Hamlet to the way a ghost was used in the movie
"Ghost" staring Demi Moore . . .
Comparison questions are used frequently at the college level.)
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Thursday, January
27, 2005 13
Learners present. 3.25
hours
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Interpret Charts & Graphs (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)
Protons - positive (+) charge, their number defines the element, their
mass is the basic atomic mass
unit, their number equals the number of electrons, they are
"made" of quarks
Neutrons - no charge, their mass is slightly larger than a protons, they
are "made" of quarks
Electrons - negative (-) charge, their mass only slightly more than
zero, their number equals the number
of protons, they are considered
to be indivisible particles.
We added, subtracted, and split the number of protons in an atomic
nucleus to get new elements (using
the period table)
Amber made a presentation of the Flower Fundraiser which could be a
terrific service learning project
for some people. It will be a micro enterprise which we will
try to run as a "mini business".
People
started thinking about procurement and pricing already.
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Tuesday, January
25, 2005 13
Learners present. 3.25
hours
--Complexity of managing and resolving
conflict (Conflict & Resolution)
Strategic Reading (Reading)
Participate as a TEAM MEMBER - Contribute
to group effort (Interpersonal Skills (Working with Others))
More discussion and reading exercises.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in a time when people were
afraid of the French Revolution
and we were in an undeclared war with France. Most historians think that the laws were also
targeted against opposition to the party in power (The Federalists). When the Jeffersonians peacefully
took power through elections,
they allowed these laws they did not repeal to expire
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Monday, January 24,
2005 7
Learners present. 3.25
hours
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Express thoughts in writing (Writing) WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in
writing; Create documents (letters,
directions, reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)
Writing:
Began with an impromptu discussion about the word "emphatically"
, the alternate forms of the word
(emphasis, emphasize, emphatic), and ways to show emphasis in writing
(exclamation points,
underlines, boldface, quotes etc.)
People then wrote for at least one half hour before talking about what
to do next in terms of "Overall
Organization", "Sentence Structure", "Word
Usage" and "Mechanics"
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Thursday, January
20, 2005 10
Learners present. 3.25
hours
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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)
Atoms and Subatomic Particles
Reviewed the "building blocks of matter" framework and how
atoms combine to form molecules. We
also looked at electrons, neutrons, and protons and drew a model of a
carbon atom (6 protons and 6
electrons).
Then people (mostly working independently) filled in a cloze reading
activity covering the same
material.
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Wednesday, January
19, 2005 10 Learners
present. 3.25
hours
If someone missed 2 days of classes in a month, what would their
attendance percentage be?
We assumed fifteen classes in a month.
Missing 2 classes would mean that 13 classes WERE
attended.
13/15 means 13 divided by 15. (You ALWAYS place the denominator in the
division box.)
You CAN divide a smaller number by a larger one if you place a decimal
point and some zeros after
the smaller number.
The decimal answer is .86666666666 (the six repeats forever.) Multiply by 100 and the answer is 86%
(rounded) or 86 2/3%.
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Tuesday, January
18, 2005 10
Learners present. 3.25
hours
--Differences between fact, opinion, and
interpretation (Perspective & Interpretation) Develop reading
Vocabulary (Reading) INTERPRET & COMMUNICATE INFORMATION
(Information (Acquiring and
Crossword puzzle and short reading.
Discussion of vocabulary and concepts.
Were these laws passed to deal with a real emergency or were they passed
to suppress political
opposition?
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Thursday, January
13, 2005 10
Learners present. 3.25
hours
--
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)
Reviewed the basic building block framework: subatomic particles: atoms:
small molecules: large
molecules: organelles: cells: tissues:
. . . .
And did a basic pretest
______________ are substances that cannot be chemically broken down into
other substances
______________ are substances that can be chemically broken down into
more basic elements
______________ are the smallest units of chemical elements
______________ are the smallest units of chemical compounds
etc
Then did a Cloze reading activity reviewing how the concept of the atom
evolved since the ancient
Greeks to the early 20th century (Bohr model).
People did a very good job using grammatical cues to fill in the blanks.
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Wednesday, January
12, 2005 6 Learners present. 3.25
hours
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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)
Represented values as Whole Numbers, mixed numbers, fractions, decimals,
percents, exponents and
equations. (We could not
represent proper fractions as whole numbers or mixed numbers and chose
not to represent fractions as exponents).
We also did a crossword puzzle based on exponent concepts and
expressions.
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Tuesday, January
11, 2005 10
Learners present. 3.25
hours
--Dynamics among power, authority, and
participation (Power, Authority, & Participation) Development of
comprehension strategies (Reading) INTERPRET & COMMUNICATE INFORMATION
(Information
(Acquiring and Using))
Protecting Free Speech and Limiting
Free Speech: The First Amendment in Wartime.
We spent the first hour identifying some periods of war and panic when
free speech was limited by US
laws.
1. The Quasi War with France (1798)
2. The Civil War (1861-1865)
3. World War I (1914-1917)
4. World War II (1939-1945)
5. Cold War & Red Scare (c1945-1965)
6. Vietnam War (1965-1975)
7. War on Terror (2001- )
We also identified the major provisions of the First Amendment
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Freedom of the Press
3. Freedom of Association
4. The Right to Petition Government for redress of grievances.
5. Freedom of Assembly.
6. Freedom of Religion
We also did a Close Reading (fill in the blanks) exercise reviewing
these facts and related concepts.
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Monday, January 10,
2005 11
Learners present. 3.25
hours
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Learn strategies for organization (Writing) WRITING - Communicate thoughts, ideas & information in
writing; Create documents (letters,
directions, reports, graphs) (Basic Skills)
Writing Prompt: Which is more
important in your life: hope or fear?
Most people worked on independent writing projects. Some of them worked
on using lists to organize
ideas for writing. Among the independent topics were famous Supreme
Court Cases (Korematsu and
Brandenberg), Female Genital Mutilation, Sigmund Freud, and "My
Favorite Holiday")
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