Lesson Review                       1 ASE Morning                         March 2007

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Thursday, March 01, 2007                               8 Learners Present                3.5 hours

The High Councils of Charboneau decided that this day, the first of March AD 2007 would be

officially declared the last day of February for the purposes of tracking academic effort and

performance.

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

[Word Bank words:] martinet

Female                   60.00 +

Joanne[e] and I worked on my phonics book

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

Math Work Today:] Decimals.  Joe taugh[t] me to write them correctly and another student helped me

 and that was good.

[What didn't help?] getting discouraged.

Male                     25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] fascist martinet

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Writing Project Work Today:] I typed it up and just need you to check it or go over it with me.

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] I did research on verbal abuse and other abuses.

Monday, March 05, 2007                                  9 Learners Present                3.5 hours

                          R2.3d Use dictionary to learn meaning of unfamiliar words (Reading Skills & Vocabulary)

                W2.4d Use expanded vocabulary with increasing frequency and precision  (Writing: Structure and Mechanics)

Vocabulary

Reviewed February's Word Bank Words and chose 5 words for March: repetition, ominous,

poised, skeptical, insouciant

Amber got several people doing Career Interest Survey's.

Davey from Women in Action dropped by, but everybody was pretty busy.

  Student Comments

Female                   25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] insouciant, ominous, poised, repetition, skeptical

[What helped you learn today?] Group Time working together

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] did a test on computer for Amber

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

Math Work Today:] I didn't work on it today[.] Have trouble understanding some of the work.

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] We reviewed last month[']s words and chose this month[']s words

Male                     16.00 -- 17.99

[What didn't help?] only 1 break[.] it sux

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

[Word Bank words:] repetition, ominous, poised, skeptical, insouciant

[What helped you learn today?] working w/people

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[Word Bank words:] repetition, ominous, poised, skeptical, insouciant

[What helped you learn today?] working by myself

[What didn't help?] going to[o] fast through the math book


Tuesday, March 06, 2007                                  9 Learners Present                3.5 hours

            Relationship between production, distribution and consumption patterns to political and cultural systems (Production,

                                                       Distribution, & Consumption)

                                     R3.5a Take notes of key ideas while reading  (Reading Strategies)

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

Reading and Taking Notes

 

We are reading the Chapter in "Freedom and Crisis" about the Great Depression and the New

Deal".   The associated assignment is to take reading notes. (They were not expected to finish

today.) Before silent reading time, we went over the meanings of "Relief", "Recovery",

"Stabilization", and "Reform" as they related to the New Deal.  But other approaches to taking

notes were discussed. 

  Student Comments

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[What helped you learn today?] taking notes and group time

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] did highlighting on my reading

[What helped you learn today?] Nothing ---->  I HATE FDR!

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[Writing Project Work Today:] Notes on the Great Depression and New Deal

[Next Steps:] finish and share thoughts

[What helped you learn today?] class discussion about words connected with the [G]reat

[D]epression assignment

[What didn't help?] People throwing pencils by me and talking

Female                   60.00 +

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Took notes: on the important facts and ideas [-] reforms about

adequate [] regulation to prevent a repetition of the worst mistakes of all time

Male                     16.00 -- 17.99

[Word Bank words:] value: a belief about what is important

Female                   25.00 -- 44.99

The Great Depression and the New Deal. America in the 1930s More about the 1930s + 1940s.

[What helped you learn today?] Some quiet time

[What didn't help?] Some talk was distracting when it wasn't about what we were reading.

Male                     25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] pedagogy, aristocrat, bemused, suave, demagogue

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] I read and highlighted. After I'm going to check it and write them in

 my notebook.

I learned about taking notes. I can tell you what I read about when I read it again. Highlighting ke[p]t

me from falling asleep.  It wasn't all that boring. Some things were really interest[ing].


Wednesday, March 07, 2007                          10 Learners Present                3.5 hours

                                  N-3  Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates (Number Sense)

Math

  Student Comments

Male                     16.00 -- 17.99

[What didn't help?] only 1 break[. I]t should be at least 2

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

Math Work Today: Book 2 (Decimals and Fractions) Unit 7: Multiplying & Dividing Fractions AND

Mixed Numbers:] I understand it now.

[What helped you learn today?] Asking for help to understand my Math and not rushing through it.

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] correcting mistakes on my Math Book.

[What didn't help?] having anxiety from to[o] much coffee

Male                     25.00 -- 44.99

[What helped you learn today?] I wanted to learn and have a good conversation with someone who

want[s] to talk.  I want to learn and be ready for college.

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

Math Work Today:] fractions  [Next Steps:] taking the book home to work on.

[What helped you learn today?] working with the GCC student really helped.


Thursday, March 08, 2007                              10 Learners Present                3.5 hours

                              ORGANIZE AND MAINTAIN INFORMATION (Information (Acquiring and Using))

                                         the influence of behavior on health (Behavior and Change)

                          How everything is made up of a small number of building blocks (Similarity and Diversity)

                    CT2.1c Recognize when and when not attending to a task (Critical Thinking: Cognition & Strategies)

Science and Health

 

Marguerite got the class off with a question about "kinetic energy" (the energy of motion).  This

was a good intro to more discussion about basic science.  It was also important for everyone to

see how often books actually explain the complicated terms they use - if you take the time to

read carefully.

 

Matter can be viewed as "Pure Substances" v. Mixtures.

Pure substances can be divided between "Elements" and "Compounds"

Elements are substances consisting of only one kind of atom.

Atoms can be seen as groups of protons surrounded by electrons.

The number of protons determines the type of atom (element).  (One proton is Hydrogen. Two

protons are Helium . . . Six protons are Carbon, Seven protons IS Nitrogen, Eight protons IS

OXYGEN . . . Etc.

The number of protons determines the number of electrons and the way electrons are

configured helps determine how they bond with other atoms to form molecules.

 

Today humans can make all kinds of compounds and are developing fantastically advanced

molecular structures (nano technology) that will be the "magical" materials of the future.

 

Davey and Migdalia from Women in Action came in and showed a brief video about Women

and HIV.  This formed the basis of an ongoing discussion about arming oneself with information

 and good habits.  It is also part of an ongoing discussion about valuing oneself and investing in

  Student Comments

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

Women in Action came.  We watch[ed] a move and discussed it. We also worked on Science.

Female                   60.00 +

I ask[ed] about the word Kinetic energy - means (motion) which lead to a group discussion on science

 using the periodic table

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[Group Time:] Sex Class

[What helped you learn today?] Nothing

[What didn't help?] Group[.] I hate doing Group.

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] class discussion and talking and helping each other

Male                     25.00 -- 44.99

We all t[oo]k note[s] and learn[ed] about energy and atom[s]

We all watch[ed] the safe[] sex video

Male                     16.00 -- 17.99

[What helped you learn today?] The movie about HIV/AIDS + Break time

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] about matter and elements


Monday, March 12, 2007                                  7 Learners Present                3.5 hours

                                          R3.1b Re-read to clarify meaning (Reading Strategies)

                              ORGANIZE AND MAINTAIN INFORMATION (Information (Acquiring and Using))

                            W3.3a Record thoughts, experiences, and reminders in a journal (Writing: Strategies)

Reading Journals

Reading         Note Taking        Responding

 

Everyone was given several articles (mostly from the Recorder) and asked to:

1. Read them

2. Underline (or Highlight) AND Take Notes

3. Do Reading Journal Entries on three of the articles

 

The class was very busy and very quiet except for an occasional question/discussion about a

vocabulary word.

 

Then we discussed what happens when you are Reading, Note Taking and Responding:

1. Asking questions

2. Deciding what is important

3. Categorizing

4. Summarizing

5. Looking ahead to future learning

(also rereading and rewording)

  Student Comments

Female                   18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] reading and taking notes

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] started reading on Halliburton to move its hq from Texas to Dubai.

[Word Bank words:] flamboyant

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

I finished all my reading journals

[What helped you learn today?] re-reading, taking notes and that's it.

Female                   25.00 -- 44.99

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Reading Journals

8 different articles and put three in my Journals

[What helped you learn today?] reading articles [-]  learning more on what['s]s going on local and

Female                   60.00 +

a lot of reading and note taking

Male                     25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] caudate nuclei, dopamine, serotonin

I am get[ting] better in the measurement converting.


Tuesday, March 13, 2007                                  6 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))

Note Taking and Reading

 

Before further reading and taking book notes on the New Deal, we put some notes on the board

about the philosophies behind the New Deal.

 

The New Deal can be viewed as a response to the Great Depression.  But that means it can also

 be viewed as a response to the Business Cycle.  

 

As a response to the Great Depression The New Deal was also a response to OVER

PRODUCTION or UNDER CONSUMPTION.

 

And another way of looking at the New Deal is as a response to BIG CORPORATE POWER. 

Old time Progressives focused on breaking up monopolies.  Many New Dealer focused on

"managing" BIGNESS when it came to business.   "Managing" can also be viewed as

"regulating" or "controlling" or "PLANNING".

 

Roosevelt was trying to form partnerships between Government and Business, but at times he

had to confront business interests.  Government and Big Business did not really settle into a

"partnership mode" until World War II  (something that Dwight D. Eisenhower would later call

"The Military/Industrial Complex")

 

After that (about an hour) the class settled in for about an hour and a half of quiet reading and

note taking.

  Student Comments

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

[What didn't help?] A lot of people were being loud and getting off track so I couldn't concentrate] on

what I was reading.

[What helped you learn today?] Learning to ta[ke] better notes on what I'm reading. Write down

questions and words I don't [k]no[w]  and don't understand so that I can go back and  look them up

so that I do understand what I'm reading.

**

Female                   16.00 -- 17.99

I learned a lot[. T]o[o] much to write

[What helped you learn today?] a lot of Reading

Male                     18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] Quiet Time