Lesson Review 1 ASE
Morning February
2007
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Thursday, February
01, 2007 6
Learners Present 3.5 hours
the signs, symptoms and causes of health conditions (Prevention, Early
Detection, and Maintenance)
Davey and Migdalia showed a
video about STIs and conducted a discussion about symptoms,
transmission, and protection.
Models were used to demonstrate the proper use of male and
female condoms.
Student Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Group Time:] Sex class
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] STIs and STDs learned lot about the
d[iseases] and other things
you can get. I learned more than
I knew.
Monday, February 05, 2007 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R3.4b Seek key phrases defining unfamiliar words elsewhere in the
text (Reading Strategies)
W2.4d Use expanded vocabulary with increasing frequency and
precision (Writing: Structure and
Mechanics)
We went reviewed last month's Word Bank words by connecting them to
illustrative passages:
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* obsequious - connected
(of course) to a passage from David Copperfield where Uriah Heep |
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claims he is to "umble" to attempt to improve his station
through learning. |
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* Ostentatious - connected
to Malcolm Forbes 70th birthday in a Moroccan palace where the |
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entertainment included 300 Berber horsemen. |
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* Banal - connected to
reviews of boring, unoriginal advertisements and pop albums |
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* thwart - connected to
the foiling of a terrorist plot to use liquid explosives on airlines |
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* facile - connected to a
writer who defended himself from the accusation of being "glib" by
a |
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description of how practice and hard work can lead to a stage where
certain skills "seem" to come easy |
Then we picked 5 new words for February: rejuvenate, alacrity,
countenance, cantankerous,
inscrutable
Student
Comments
Female 25.00 --
44.99
[What helped you learn today?] teacher[']s patien[ce].
[What didn't help?] inter[r]uptions
Female 16.00 --
17.99
We reviewed last month[']s vocab words and chose this month[']s words
[What helped you learn today?] Working with my mom.
[What didn't help?] Nothing I can think of. Oh yea I'm sick but I tried to stick it through
Female 25.00 --
44.99
[Word Bank words:] countenance, cantankerous, alacrity, rejuvenate,
inscrutable
Female 60.00 +
I thought that working with the writing about the vocabulary words was a
big help in group time.
I asked about a couple of difficult words
quadrant and countenance (n) means looks
quadrant - the meaning of 1 of four "equal areas."
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[What helped you learn today?] working as a group
Tuesday, February
06, 2007 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours
Patterns of interdependence in our world. (Environments &
Interdependence)
R3.3b Think-aloud, visualize, and question while reading (Reading Strategies)
W1.5f Analyze a poem, play, or short story (Writing Expression)
First we listened to "Tom Joad" by Woody Guthrie while also
reading the lyrics. This song
basically tells the whole story of the novel and the movie.
After a brief talk about how the story fits into our study of the Great
Depression and the New
Deal which are part of "The Industrial Revolution" (which is
part of "modernization") we
watched the movie.
After the movie we listened to "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by
Bruce Springsteen (while reading
its lyrics). Then we had just a
little bit of time to identify some themes and do a bit of writing.
Student Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] We watched a movie and listened to
Joe talk[. A]lso we listen[ed]
to a song that I didn't like.
Female 25.00 --
44.99
[What helped you learn today?] Movie was good. See really not much change in today[']s society.
Female 60.00 +
[Other Writing You Did Today:] just notes on the [G]rapes of [W]rath,
the dust bowl and the people
that had a hard time living in these times.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Tom Joad The Grapes of Wrath
Male 25.00 --
44.99
We all watched a movie about the New Deal.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3
Learners Present 3.5 hours
N-3 Compute fluently and make
reasonable estimates (Number Sense)
Long Division: Reviewing the steps and
representing any remainders as whole numbers,
fractions, and decimals.
Thursday, February
08, 2007 3
Learners Present 3.5 hours
Create connections between building blocks & complexity in our
natural and designed world (Similarity and Diversity)
Green Gumdrops as Oxygen, and toothpicks
as [covalent (pairs of shared electrons)] bonds we made some simple molecules.
But first we went over the rules:
o
Hydrogen can only have one bond,
o
Oxygen can only have two,
o
Nitrogen can only have 3, and
o
Carbon can only have four bonds.
Atoms bond together because they want to have a full configuration of
electrons in their outer shells.
(Only so many electrons can go in each shell . . . AND inner
shells are always filled first.)
Nobody likes an unhappy oxygen atom . . .
Student Comments
Female 60.00 +
Seeing the way [the] outer shell and bonds worked was a big help to me.
[Word Bank words:] the one word that I didn't understand is
["]configured["]
I think we should definitely have a few more lessons on the periodic
table. I finally got the connection
between the H, C, N, [and] O
Female 16.00 --
17.99
Atoms = protons + electrons
[What helped you learn today?] working with the candy[. I]t helped me
understand it a lot better.
[What didn't help?] Nothing
I actually learned a lot today ! !
Male 25.00 --
44.99
[Word Bank words:] calamity, biosphere, uranium
Monday, February
12, 2007 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours
Patterns of interdependence in our world. (Environments &
Interdependence)
R3.5a Take notes of key ideas while reading (Reading Strategies)
ORGANIZE AND MAINTAIN INFORMATION (Information (Acquiring and Using))
W3.3a Record thoughts, experiences, and reminders in a journal (Writing:
Strategies)
Different types of reading and learning require different
approaches. Advanced text book
reading does often require good note taking to organize the information
so it can be
remembered.
Today students were mostly working with newspaper articles, but were
encouraged to take
notes before making Reading Journal entries.
Suggested readings included an opinion piece against Nancy Pelosi by
Michael Reagan, a
"human interest" story about a survey claiming that today's
youth are more materialistic, an
article about global warming and the need to reduce carbon emissions,
and an opinion piece by
the mother of a soldier serving in Iraq. There was also a four page packets of quotes concerning
FDR and The New Deal.
Afterward people talked about their reading choices, writing strategies,
and whether or not note
taking helped.
Clara from Community Youth came in to discuss WIA internships and help
interested people
with the applications.
Student
Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
We worked on our journal entries today. I got two done and I am working
on my 3rd.
[What didn't help?] My mom being loud (Just kidding)
Female 16.00 --
17.99
We did our reading journals today
I got 5 done
Female 60.00 +
[Word Bank words:] cohorts, demagoguery, and pittance
Tuesday, February
13, 2007 6
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R3.5a Take notes of key ideas while reading (Reading Strategies)
The New Deal:
First we read through a series of quotes relating to the New Deal to get
some of the attitudes for
and against.
Then people took notes while reading an ABE level History Text before
discussing how note
taking helped them understand the reading and how note taking relates to
text book reading.
The class was also presented with the following framework to help them
process next weeks
reading about the New Deal:
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Relief: What actions and programs of the
New Deal were intended to relieve immediate suffering? |
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Stabilization: What actions and programs of the
New Deal were designed to prevent the Depression from getting deeper? |
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Recovery: What actions and programs of the
New Deal were designed to promote economic growth and investment? |
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Reform: What actions and programs of the
New Deal were intended to change institutions and power relations in the
economy and society? |
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Guiding Principles: The New Deal was more of a series
of responses and experiments than the implementation of any “master plan”,
but what values, ideas, and assumptions guided it its actions between 1933
and 1939? |
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Resistance: Explain the opposition to the New
Deal. What motivated this opposition,
and who were the main opponents? |
Student Comments
Male 25.00 --
44.99
[Word Bank words:] malicious, inferior, brusque, omission, archetypical
Female 16.00 --
17.99
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] The New Deal
I'm learning a lot about it, more than what I knew about it. I also learned how to take notes on what
I'm reading. It's a big
improvement for me.
[What helped you learn today?] Taking note[s] on what I read and to
re-read what I read. Check my
notes to make sure I understand them.
Thursday, February
15, 2007 2
Learners Present 3.5 hours
R3.4e Use a graphic organizer to organize info, ideas, words (Reading
Strategies)
How models assist or hinder us in problem solving (Measurement,
Magnitude, and Models)
CT1.3c Determine implications, effects, and value of ways of presenting
info (Critical Thinking: Problem Solving)
Small class because of the snow.
http://www.literacyproject.org/Charboneau/tunits/AtomsAndElements/AtomsBOND1.doc
1. Life is organized on many structural levels
<Atoms < molecules
< organelles < cells < tissues < organs < systems < organisms
< populations < communities < ecosystems < biosphere
2. Each level of organization has emergent properties
We also went over the Lewis system for modeling molecules by accounting
for all the electrons
in the outer shells of their component atoms.
This involved studying tables and symbolic information while also using
symbols based on rules.
Student Comments
Female 60.00 +
worked on hydrogen and carbon dioxide bonding of atom on the outer shell
water H2O
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5
Learners Present 3.5 hours
We also got a little bit of GED pretesting in too.
Student Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
I need help. But I want it from my sister
[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Vocabulary. I[']m almost done with it. Also surfed the web. [D]id 2
reading journals
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7
Learners Present 3.5 hours
GED Pretesting and OWL testing.
Student Comments
Male 18.00 --
24.99
I finished the Meaning of Decimals Unit.
Female 16.00 --
17.99
I did both of my MAPTS. It was hard because I don’t feel good and I
couldn't conc[e]ntrate because a
lot of people were talking!
Female 60.00 +
I did some work on my long division problems but I started to have some
problems so I stop[p]ed and
did something like sweeping the floor.
Thursday, February
22, 2007 5
Learners Present 3.5 hours
W3.4b Practice all steps of the writing process: (Writing: Strategies)
Finishing up.
People divided their time between writing projects, vocabulary and
sentence structure work, and
Math. One learner finished her GED Official Practice GED Test battery.
Student Comments
Male 25.00 --
44.99
I spen[t] a lot of time on the measurement [problems] but can not get
[them] and I get frustrated with
the problem[s] and with Joe.
[Word Bank words:] perpetually, consecrate, abase, aesthetically
Monday, February 26, 2007 6
Learners Present 3.5 hours
W2.4e
With assistance, revise essays for clarity, organization, word usage, and
mechanics (Writing: Structure and Mechanics)
Three people finished their writing projects today.
Student Comments
Female 16.00 --
17.99
I want individual time for the whole WEEK PLEASE!
Female 25.00 --
44.99
[What didn't help?] mind wasn't here today due to ______'s attitude and
me trying to think of what
else I can do to help her. Would like individual time tomorrow.
Male 25.00 --
44.99
. . . my brain is overload[ed] with a lot of dictionary words and the
meanings
[Word Bank words:] psychiatric, integrity