Lesson Review                           2GedSuccess                           January 2006

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006                              3 Learners Present                2.5 hours

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

                                                   Express thoughts in writing (Writing)

Writing Prompt:

The leadership of any group is usually a minority

Leaderships do not always represent the entire group (or lead in their best interests either.)

How does the leadership of the United States fairly represent the whole nation?

Wednesday, January 11, 2006                        3 Learners Present                2.5 hours

        Compute with whole numbers, fractions, decimals & integers using appropriate algorithms and a variety of techniques (Number

                                                       Relationships & Computation)

Individual Math Work: two students are working in decimals, and one student decided to focus

on sentence writing and revisions, working out of the GED book on sentence combining.  Later

another student started revision his own sentences.

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

I worked by myself on my GED book.  I was working  on Sentence structure.  I [worked] really hard

during class.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006                              4 Learners Present                2.5 hours

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

                                                 Learn strategies for organization (Writing)

Writing -

Some people started the class working in the Writing Section of the GED book, but by the end

of class everyone had something written and had started revising.

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] Joe helped me today when he went over my essay I wrote.  He

explained how to rewrite an introduction and the three paragraphs which is the body.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006                        4 Learners Present                2.5 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

Math - Decimal - The meanings of decimals, reading decimals, and writing decimals

  Student Comments

Male                     16.00 -- 17.99

A fraction bar is a symbolic reminder to divide


Tuesday, January 24, 2006                              4 Learners Present                2.5 hours

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

                                                 Learn strategies for organization (Writing)

The Five Paragraph Essay:

Two students created or resumed their Moodle Accounts and began assessing sample essays

based on 16 criteria.  They were easily able to comment on how the 3 supporting points in the

introduction of a 5-paragraph essay are the topics of the 3 body paragraphs.

Two others worked on Math.

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

I learned that when you round you never take away the number[. I]t either goes up or stays the same.

Female                   25.00 -- 44.99

I was correcting peoples work on the computer.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006                        3 Learners Present                2.5 hours

           Develop & use Estimation techniques for whole numbers, fractions, decimals & percents (Number Sense - Estimation)

         MATHEMATICS - Perform basic computations; approach practical problems by choosing from a variety of math techniques

Rounding and Place Value

Tuesday, January 31, 2006                              4 Learners Present                2.5 hours

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

Writing

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

I was subtracting decimals and need to add the zeros.

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

I worked on my GED pretest so tomorrow I will have a better understanding on what I need help on.

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Next Steps] Finish testing and begin writing