Lesson Review                1 ASE Morning               September 2007

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007                     3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Owl Testing and Individual Learning Time

Student Comments

Female              60.00 +

I looked up on the computer about the process [of] iron turning into steel[. A]lso Joe helped look up

what pig iron is.

Henry Bessemer [was an E]nglish inventor and engineer who developed a method of converting

molten pig iron into steel in 1856.

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

microbe, microbial, prodigy or prodigious

Wednesday, September 05, 2007                 3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Owl Testing and Individual Learning Time

Student Comments

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

exorcise, eradicating, itinerary

Thursday, September 06, 2007                    4 Learners Present            3.5 hours

OWL Testing and Individual Learning Time.

Student Comments

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

I wish I could remember the spelling but I get confused about the words.

[Word Bank words:] disrepute, pavilions

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

I wrote [about] Hamlet and Snake Charm in my Reading [Journal].

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] Get[t]ing mor[e] ideas about how to play Hamlet.

[What helped you learn today?] being able to work at my [own] pace

[What didn't help?] less distraction / people talking.

Monday, September 10, 2007                     3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

   SELF MANAGEMENT - Accurately assess self, set personal goals, monitor progress & exhibit self control (Personal Qualities)

Individual Learning Time:

One student worked on her second set of Constitutional Amendments (paraphrasing the 11th

Amendment).

Another worked on Basic Math using Geometry Terms.

The third got oriented to the class and started a writing project.

Student Comments

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

philosophical, dogma, adherence, ideology, fabricated

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] ambi[t]ion


Tuesday, September 11, 2007                     5 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Owl Testing, GED pretesting and Individual Learning Time.

Student Comments

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] support and help

[What didn't help?] the distraction

Wednesday, September 12, 2007                 2 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Individual Learning Time

One learner reviewed "Order of Operations" as a preliminary to working on fractions.  The other

 spent time reviewing whole number inequalities and place value before working on his writing

Student Comments

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[I could have learned more if . . .] I was alone

Female              60.00 +

Math Work Today:] I worked on order of operations in the Math concerning the parentheses and

always do the number above the dividing line first.

Thursday, September 13, 2007                    3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

      SERVE CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS - Work to satisfy customers' expectations (Interpersonal Skills (Working with Others))

One student worked on paraphrasing the Twelfth Amendment as part of a larger project

paraphrasing all the Amendments.

Another student worked on his writing project and reviewed solving proportions in the context of

 Geometry.

The third student finished a unit on place value, and spent the rest of the class reading a

philosophy book.

Monday, September 17, 2007                     3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Owl Testing and Individual Learning Time

One student completed both OWL tests.  Another worked on rounding.  The third went over the

 concepts of "Democracy" and "Republic" using examples from Ancient Greece and Rome.

Then she went back to paraphrasing the 12th Amendment of the US Constitution.


Tuesday, September 18, 2007                     3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

   SELF MANAGEMENT - Accurately assess self, set personal goals, monitor progress & exhibit self control (Personal Qualities)

Individual Learning Time

One student did a Timeline of Ancient Rome and then continued to work on paraphrasing the

Amendments.

One student worked on Reading Journal Entries.

The other student worked on a review of whole number operations using Geometry concepts

(today: plugging the correct numbers into certain formulas such as the area of a circle or the

Pythagorean Theorem)

Student Comments

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] laryngitis, vehement, hypotenuse.

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

I [read] about [a] book and [wrote] in my [Journal].

Female              60.00 +

Dave helped me with some of the revisions on my writing project.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007                 4 Learners Present            3.5 hours

                   R3.4e Use a graphic organizer to organize info, ideas, words (Reading Strategies)

          Why scientists order and organize phenomena in our natural and designed world (Order and Organization)

Climate Change and Greenhouse Gasses

 

The activity was built around a table showing the major components of the atmosphere

(nitrogen, oxygen, and argon) along with some of the most important trace elements.

 

We identified the major greenhouse gasses without going into how they warm the atmosphere. 

We also classified the components of the atmosphere as either compounds or elements.

 

An element is a substance consisting of only one kind of atom.

 

A compound is a substance consisting of molecules which are different types of atoms

chemically bonded together.

 

There was a lot of good discussion about scientific knowledge vs absolute certainty with

perspectives from the Third World since we have people in class who grew up in Vietnam and

Pakistan.

Student Comments

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] being able to focus

[What didn't help?] group time

Female              60.00 +

Math Work Today:] Working on equal fractions[.] 2 pages done.

[Other Learning (or Work) Efforts:] group time: was on global climate warming and greehouse gases.


Thursday, September 20, 2007                    3 Learners Present            3.5 hours

   SELF MANAGEMENT - Accurately assess self, set personal goals, monitor progress & exhibit self control (Personal Qualities)

Individual Learning Time

One student wrote out a first draft of a writing project (Philosophy of Pink Floyd's, "The Wall")

and started a plan to revise his ideas.

Another finished her second Writing Project of this monthly period (including the last week of

August).  This was an outline paraphrase of the "Correction Amendments" (11 and 12).

Another student started his Demonstration Document for Book 5: (Geometry) Unit 1: Review of

 Basic Arithmetic.

Student Comments

Female              60.00 +

[Word Bank words:] evidently (adv.) means - based on evidence - (proof.)

[Other Writing You Did Today:] I put my ["]The Time Line of Ancient Rome["] in the buckskin for Joe.

Monday, September 24, 2007                     6 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Owl Testing and GED testing

(Other people worked on Math, Writing, and Social Studies)

Student Comments

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[Writing Project Work Today:] I did my second draft  [Next Steps:] 3[rd] draft

Female              60.00 +

Joe and I went over some of the old English history in Parliament concerning the political power of

sovereignty.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007                     4 Learners Present            3.5 hours

One person finished his Writing Project.  Another finished his Math Unit. One student worked

on a third daft of his Writing Project, and another worked on vocabulary from her reading.

Student Comments

Male                25.00 -- 44.99

[Word Bank words:] tyrannous, endear, endeavor

Wednesday, September 26, 2007                 6 Learners Present            3.5 hours

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

Mostly Math

Two learners finished their orientation to the class and got started in a review of whole number

operations.  Another student nearly finished a math unit but needs practice with least common

denominators.  One student started to make headway in an introduction to  basic geometry

concepts. And another worked on Reading Journal entries.

Student Comments

Male                18.00 -- 24.99

[What helped you learn today?] I was able to do my thing

[What didn't help?] Joe bug[g]ing me

Female              60.00 +

I need more review of multiples


Thursday, September 27, 2007                    4 Learners Present            3.5 hours

Finishing Up