Lesson Review 1 ASE
Morning December
2006
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Monday, December
04, 2006 9
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R2.3a Use common roots and affixes to determine word meanings (Reading Skills & Vocabulary)
W2.4d Use expanded vocabulary with increasing frequency and
precision (Writing: Structure and
Mechanics)
We went over the basic requirements of the class and introduced a new
one: Monthly Vocabulary.
This month's words are "enfranchise", "facetious",
"irony", "rhetoric", and "amiable"
We went over various Noun, Adjective, Verb, and adverb forms these words
might have and put them into sentences.
Student Comments
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] writing sentences about vocab
[What didn't help?] taking so much time talking about the words
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[What helped you learn today?] learning new words, personal time
[What didn't help?] TOOK SOO LONG Next time we should be assi[g]ned
words and then discuss
them in a group.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] Joe teaching us new words
Female 16.00 --
17.99
enfranchise, facetious, irony, rhetoric, amiable
Tuesday, December
05, 2006 8
Learners Present 3.5 hours
Forces affecting continuity and change (Continuity & Change)
R3.5b Vary strategies for different texts and purposes (Reading
Strategies)
Reading:
The class silently read "Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Great
Depression and World War II" by
Bonnie J. Hinman (Amazing
Americans Series - McGraw Hill: Wright
Group Readers).
Everyone finished in between 30 to 34 minutes.
They were also asked to list 3 important facts about FDR and to relate
his life and career to the Industrial Revolution.
Most of the rest of the class was spent on an extensive crossword puzzle
that required a close
reading of the book (no word bank although there were page cues).
Everyone had very good reason to feel successful.
Student Comments
Male 18.00 --
24.99
I am doing simple interest rate[s].
Female 16.00 --
17.99
Reading about F.D.R. helped me learn[] more about him.
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Read a short book about FDR
[Word Bank words:] governor, senate, polio, critics
[What helped you learn today?] I learned a lot. Stuff I never knew
before. I think it was so effective
because I read it over and over [.]
Female 16.00 --
17.99
My mind was somewhere else today.
[I]'m sorry!
Female 60.00 +
President F.D.R. is better known [a]s the president that got us out of
the Depression with the "New
Deal" to pro[vi]de jobs . .
.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9
Learners Present 3.5 hours
N-3 Compute fluently and make
reasonable estimates (Number Sense)
Student Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[I learned today because . . .] I got to work on my Math and learn
something I didn't know how to do.
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[I learned today because . . .] I tried hard
Female 25.00 --
44.99
Math Work Today:] word problems and things I forgot how to do.
[I could have learned more if . . .] I understood my Math better. And if some students weren't so loud.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Writing Project Work Today:] I typed my writing project and I fixed
mistakes
[I could have learned more if . . .] people were more qui[et]
Thursday, December
07, 2006 9
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R3.4b Seek key phrases defining unfamiliar words elsewhere in the
text (Reading Strategies)
W3.1a Copy models (of letters, words, phrases, numbers, language
experience stories) (Writing: Strategies)
How everything is made up of a small number of building blocks
(Similarity and Diversity)
CT2.2c Use memory strategies effectively for various tasks (Critical
Thinking: Cognition & Strategies)
Elements, Compounds, and
Mixtures. (Classification Systems)
Lots of reading, lots of GED practice.
Some discussion and some note taking.
Most of what we see and work with are systems involving both matter and
energy. Substances
(MATTER) can be classified as Pure (Ideal) or Mixtures (really
everything we deal with is a
mixture).
Pure substances are either elements (only one king of atom) or compounds
(different kinds of
atoms chemically bonded together forming molecules).
Mixtures can be solutions, colloids, or suspensions. In solutions the particles are the smallest
(being molecules). Colloids have
slightly bigger particles, and suspensions have the biggest.
Student
Comments
Male 18.00 --
24.99
[Word Bank words:] semipermeable, molecules, colloids
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What didn't help?] people need to quiet down a little.
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[What helped you learn today?] filling in the blanks
[Word Bank words:] solution, atom, mixtures, colloids
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] Doing the reading individually
Monday, December
11, 2006 8
Learners Present 3.5 hours
Writing:
Students who hadn't started their monthly writing project were given
their choice between
several prompts while the others proceeded busily.
Some people also found time to work on their math or get an early start
on tomorrow's reading.
Writing Prompts:
How do you decide what types of people to associate with?
Describe your ideal job.
Explain.
Describe the worst job you ever had.
Explain.
Does the government exist to help the poor and weak or to support the
rich and powerful.
Student Comments
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Done with definitions for today.
[Word Bank words:] rhetoric
amiable
[What helped you learn today?] Pickles ! ! ! [What didn't help?] They Destroyed the Good pickles ! !
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Looked on the computer on how to
make a tattoo gun
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[What helped you learn today?] I thought class was good today. I got to finish my first draft. [What
didn't help?] I don't thing anything bad happened today . . . except my
chair falling apart : ) crazy
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Writing Project Work Today:] I chose my topic and stated working on
it.
Math Work Today:] I worked on Unit 2[,] did some decimals and am now on
my post test (the end of
unit 2)
Female 16.00 --
17.99
I worked on multiplying and dividing decimals
[What helped you learn today?] I got a lot of stuff done today. Matt
help[ed] me understand
something on my Math.
Female 60.00 +
I started my Dec essay
Tuesday, December
12, 2006 8
Learners Present 3.5 hours
What influences perspective and interpretation (Perspective &
Interpretation)
R3.5a Take notes of key ideas while reading (Reading Strategies)
W3.4a Use graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas (Writing: Strategies)
CT2.1c Recognize when and when not attending to a task (Critical
Thinking: Cognition & Strategies)
Reading: Social Studies: Eleanor
Roosevelt - Patron Saint of Liberalism.
The class had nearly 2 solid hours of reading on the life and career of
Eleanor Roosevelt. First
they did an advance organizer on Liberalism and the industrial
revolution. During the reading
they were asked to take notes under three columns.
1.
Eleanor Roosevelt - an outsider in her own family
2.
Eleanor Roosevelt - the conscience of the New Deal
3.
Eleanor Roosevelt - a modern progressive liberal
Some students chose to make notes in the margins of the reading or to
use color coded
underlining/highlighting to identify examples that fell under those
categories.
We also had a visit from Jim Williams, US Army Recruiter, who spoke to
the class for about 20
minutes before they left.
Student Comments
Female 25.00 --
44.99
Reading [about] Eleanor Roosevelt. Her life style.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What didn't help?] When we do group time and we're ready I would like
it more quiet so I can read.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] color code my notes and reading
Female 60.00 +
[Word Bank words:] subjugation - meaning to keep always down
an army officer show[ed] up and talked about join[ing] the army.
Female 18.00 --
24.99
[What helped you learn today?] Taking notes and reading
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] taking notes on [E]leanor Roosevelt
Wednesday, December
13, 2006 9
Learners Present 3.5 hours
(A few people chose to focus on trying to finish their reading on
Eleanor Roosevelt or do their
writing project. We also got
several people to do Owl Tests.)
Group Time: We briefly looked at a possible system to give a monthly
score based on 1.
Attendance (45%), Writing Project (15%), Math Unit (15%), and (Word Bank
Vocabulary
15%). The base would be 90 pts
but addition points could be earned for Attendance above
95%, extra Math Units or Writing projects and other goals achieved. Points would be deducted
for projects finished after the scheduled month.)
Student Comments
Female 25.00 --
44.99
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] I think this would be a
wonderful idea. Woo Hoo! Would work
because it would want me to work harder for a better grade.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] The class was a lot quieter and I could
pay attention on my work.
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] I thin it's a great idea because it's just a great idea. And I'll
know how much I got done and what I need to work on or [get caught] up
on.
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[Word Bank words:] unwonted = not usually done
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] I don't know yet.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] I think it[']s a good idea so i know to stop slacking if i am!
Male 16.00 --
17.99
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] Don't know. Doesn't make a
difference to me . . . .
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Monthly Effort/Achievement
Score?:] I would like this because want
to see how well I am doing.. But
also I don't like it because it feels just like school. And I hated grades because I didn't like
what they
said and what they gave me. But
yeah it is ok that we do that.
Male 18.00 --
24.99
[Word Bank words:] valedictory, heed
I am working harder and harder and continue to improve on my reading[,]
writing[, and] vocabulary.
Thursday, December 14, 2006 6
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R3.5a Take notes of key ideas while reading (Reading Strategies)
W1.4c Write a summary of an article or story (Writing Expression)
The
important role of science & scientific thinking in political decision
making & lawmaking for mutual benefit (Using Science
and Technology)
CT2.3a Employ clarification strategies after failing to understand (Critical Thinking: Cognition &
Strategies)
Should a government be allowed to "ban" trans fats?
We silently read about the proposed New York City ban and tried to
relate it to modern
progressive liberalism. (Note
Taking)
Student Comments
Male 18.00 --
24.99
[Writing Project Work Today:] I am not sure what to write
Monday, December
18, 2006 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours
N-3 Compute fluently and make
reasonable estimates (Number Sense)
W3.4b Practice all steps of the writing process: (Writing: Strategies)
Most people, as encouraged, put effort into their writing projects. Most people also found time
to work on their Math Units with 2
people finishing theirs. Another person finished her
vocabulary assignment.
Student Comments
Female 18.00 --
24.99
I'm wondering if I could come to school Monday-Thursday 9-12 pm instead
of staying until 12:30. I'll
come 12 hours a week. I'm used to coming only 6 hours a week instead of
12 hours a week. 3 1/2
hours is to[o] long to sit in a class room. I really wish I could come to class twice a week for 6 hours in
the morning. I would still be
going to afternoon classes if ____ wasn't in my class. The morning class
should get more cre[dit] for coming more than afternoon or night classes. The morning class comes
Male 18.00 --
24.99
[Word Bank words:] sympathetic, praised
[What helped you learn today?] I read the Roosevelt story and about his
wif[e]'s[. I]t's cool.
Male 16.00 --
17.99
Math Work Today:] Finished 3 pages and I'm on the Post Test on Unit 9.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours