COC IEP 200: 2013 Spring Trimester Block 1 Calendar

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Lesson 1 (March 18)

In Class

NEWS HOUR

The "Teacher's Guide" activity for the "Experts: Fights in Washington Hurt the Economy" News for You activity was wonderful, forcing the students to distinguish between first, second and third syllables while listening, focusing on fluency.

NORTHSTAR 2 READING & WRITING (THIRD ED.)

Began Unit 6 on video games going through pages 113 to 114.

COMIC BOOK

Read pages 7 and 8 of the Fantom of the Fair story in Amazing Mystery Comics #21 and worked on the following comprehension questions on the board:

FICTION
After focusing last week going through "One of the Lads" again, we started reading the self-titled " "Frozen Pizza" story (which we looked at briefly last block) from our book of short stories: Frozen Pizza and other slices of life.
For Next Class
To Read
1. Grammar in Context 1: pages 77 to 79
2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 39 to 42
3. News for You: "Local Project Puts Brazil's Poor on the Map" article on p. 2
To Do
1. Project: Choose a topic for this month's survey project, then write 1 sentence and save it in an ODT file, which you will e-mail to me
2. News for You: Write a 3 sentence summary of the "Local Project Puts Brazil's Poor on the Map" article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200 and make sure you link to the article
3. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 1 on pages 79 to 80
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Write down definitions of words on page 116
5. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday
Lesson 2 (March 19)
In Class
1. News Hour
  - Read the "Local Project Puts Brazil’s Poor on the Map" News for You article and had an interesting discussion led by our Brazilian student about favelas. Also completed the Teacher's Guide activity which had students make vocabulary maps where they used the word in a sentence and made: synonyms, definitions, and a picture of the word. We had a competition having the students try to guess what was eachother's words via the pictures:
2. Introduced student this block's course syllabus & calendar
  - Gave student's this block's official course documents for them to use as a guide. (read the18 March 2013 version of calendar here)
3. Homework Check-in
4. Review last block's Final Exam
  - Reviewed last block's final exam to make sure everyone understood what they got wrong and what they need to review again.
  - Download: Exam / Answers (.odt files from danoff.org)
5. Quiz 1 Vocabulary
  - Students defined the vocabulary words from page 116 of NorthStar for this week's quiz and we developed a study guide together for them to prepare.
  - Download: Quiz 1 Vocabulary Study Guide Handout (.odt file from danoff.org)
6. Survey Project: Review everyone's topics and introduce how to find research articles, as well as exactly how to write a research paragraph
  - Went into detail about exactly what is research and how they are to do it for this course.
  - Download: How to do research and write a summary paragraph Handout (.odt file from danoff.org)
7. Short Story: pages 41 to 42 of "Frozen Pizza and other slices of life"
  - Worked through the two pages together and students answered the following questions:
  - Page 41 - What does Mrs. Stonehouse mean by "we just eat and run"?
  - Page 42 - Why does the man say the room is "brilliant"?
For Next Class
To Read
1. Grammar in Context 1: Page 81
2. NorthStar 2 R&W: "Serious Fun" on page 117
3. Review Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 41 to 42
4. News for You: "'Mouse Drop' Plan May Help Control Guam’s Snakes" article on page 1
To Watch
1. Watch the first 10 minutes of this MIT Lecture (Short URL http://is.gd/cociep200video4) and write a blog post answering "Do you think you could participate in this class?" and "Why?"
To Do
1. Project: Find your first research article and write your summary paragraph (4 sentences) then put it in the your essay .odt file and e-mail it to me
2. News for You: Write a 4 sentence summary of the "'Mouse Drop' Plan May Help Control Guam’s Snakes" article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200
3. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 3 on page 81
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Questions on page 118
5. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday
6. Bring your Laptop
Lesson 3: (March 20)
In Class
1. News Hour
  - Today's News for You article was "'Mouse Drop' Plan May Help Control Guam’s Snakes" and after completing the Teacher's Guide comprehension questions, I divided them into 2 teams and had each develop a new plan for handling Guam's snake problem. They had to both write and draw it out, these were the results (seemed like everyone had fun!):
2. Grammar in Context 1
  - Started lesson 3 and worked through pages 78 to 81, learning about frequency words.
3. NORTHSTAR 2 READING & WRITING (THIRD ED.)
  - Continued Unit 6, reviewing student's homework on pages 117 to 119 and doing the first activity on page 119
4. Comic Book
  - Finished the Fantom of the Fair story from Amazing Mystery Funnies #21, answering the following review questions:
  - Page 7 - What does the thug mean when he says "cut him to ribbons"?
  - Page 8 - What does the Fantom mean when he says "he's through with crime"?
5. Short Story: pages 43 to 44 of "Frozen Pizza and other slices of life"
  - Worked through the two pages together and students answered the following questions:
  - Page 43 - Why did Mrs. Stonehouse think "The poor boy"?
  - Page 44 - Why does the man think Mrs. Stonehouse doesn't cook any meals?
For Next Class

To Read
1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "READING TWO" on pages 119 to 120
2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 43 to 44
3. News for You: "More Elephants Killed as Ivory Prices Rise" article
To Do
1. Project: Revise your first article summary paragraph; find another research article and write another summar paragraph (4 sentences each) then e-mail me the .odt file with everything
2. News for You: Write a 3 sentence summary of the "More Elephants Killed as Ivory Prices Rise" article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200
3. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 4 on page 82
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Complete questions 1 to 5 on page 120
5. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday
Lesson 4: (March 21)
In Class
1. News Hour
  - After reading the "More Elephants Killed as Ivory Prices Rise" News for You article and completing the teacher's guide questions I repeated yesterday's activity, asking the students to come up with original solutions to the problems presented in the news article. One of the results is below:
  - Also during our discussion of the article we touched upon "Proper Nouns" and that is something we'll review again and include in future quizzes.
2. Quiz 1 (vocabulary)
  - Completed the vocabulary section of the NorthStar Unit 6 exam from the teacher's guide.
3. NORTHSTAR 2 READING & WRITING (THIRD ED.)
  - Continued Unit 6, going through the True/False activity on page 120 and reading the passage on pages 119 to 120.
4. Grammar in Context 1
  - Reviewed the student's work on Exercise 4.
5. Spring Trimester Block 1 Tech Setup
  - Spent the afternoon making sure everyone was up to speed with the course's main 2 technologies:
  - LibreOffice - Tried to make sure everyone had their default language set to "English," but that proved very difficult with versions installed on Chinese and Korean computers. The LibreOffice defaulted to their language. Overall though, having the students work on their new survey projects directly in front of me on their lapotops allowed me to notice more about what they were doing and be very specific in my critiques. Got everyone on the same page with how the survey project will evolve this semester, and asked them to leave my comments in the .odt file directly so I can check to see if they've made the changes I pointed out.
  - Wordpress.com - Everyone was (mostly) comfortable with blogging on their own, the foil I introduced today was how to comment on other people's posts. Going forward each student will be required to comment on a peer's blog post with "something nice to say" and a question.
  - One girl changed the native language on her Mac OSX 10.5.8 install to English which was very cool of her! I believe the additional English students have to encounter using English software and websites helps.
For Next Class

To Read
1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 45 to 46
2. News Hour: "After Chavez, Questions Focus on Venezuela’s Future" News for You article
3. NorthStar 2 R&W: "Step 2: Synthesize" on page 121
To Watch
1. Watch the second 10 minutes of this lecture http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-223-listening-speaking-and-pronunciation-fall-2004/video-lectures/lecture-18/ (Short URL http://is.gd/cociep200video4) and write a blog post answering "Do you like the teacher's style?" and "Why?"
To Do
1. Project: Write your third research article summary paragraph
2. News for You: Write a 3 sentence summary of the "After Chavez ..." article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200
3. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 5 on page 82
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Complete the exercise on page 121
5. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday
Lesson 5: (April 1)
In Class
1. News Hour: "After Chavez, Questions Focus on Venezuela’s Future" News for You Article
  - Began by putting the "Check Comprehension" questions from the "Teacher's Guide" on the board
  - Had students discuss "Teacher's Guide" discussion questions with their partners then together as a class, had a brief discussion about the differences between capitalism, socialism and communism
  - Asked "If you were Chavez, would you choose your friend to replace you or would you follow the constitution?"
  - During the discussion the word "charisma" came up and we discussed how it referred to a person's personality
2. Homework Check-in
3. Survey project:
  - Questionnaire: 3 questions with numbers (1 to 5, Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree); 7 General Questions
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Pages 121 to 122
  - Listened to some of the "Rethinking Depression, Part 3" episode of ideas with Paul Kennedy (an NPR radio show) as it talked abotu SPARX a video game for teenagers with depression. It fit with the North Star unit's focus on video games that can help people in the real world. (Also gave me them a chance to review the word "acronym" which came up when I was explaining NPR.)
5. Fluency: IPA worksheet Review
6. Short Story: Reviewed pages 43 to 44 and read page 45 of "Frozen Pizza and other slices of life"
  - Page 43 - Why did Mrs. Stonehouse think "The poor boy"?
  - Page 44 - Why does the man think Mrs. Stonehouse doesn't cook proper meals?
  - Page 45 - What kind of pizza did the man microwave?
For Next Class
To Read
1. News Hour: Read "Pope Francis Brings Many Firsts to the Vatican" News for You article
To Listen
1. "Calendars: Daily Planners and Scheduling" ESL Cyber Lab Quiz (http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/calendar-1.htm)
To Do
1. Project: Finish your survey questionnaire
2. News Hour: Write a 3 sentence summary of the "Pope Francis ..." article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200; then comment on your partner's blog
3. NorthStar 2 R&W: Complete exercise on page 123
4. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday with the Study Guide (.odt file from danoff.org)
5. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 7 on page 85
Lesson 6: April 2
In Class
1. News Hour: "Pope Francis Brings Many Firsts to the Vatican"
  - Began by putting the "Check Comprehension" questions from the "Teacher's Guide" on the board
  - Had students discuss "Teacher's Guide" discussion questions with their partners then together as a class
  - Adapted the Teacher's Guide resource for yesterday's article that introduced the "Future Perfect" tense. Then looked at the explanation of it from Volume A of Understanding and Using English Grammar (Second Ed.) on page 53.
2. Fast Listening: Lesson 6
3. Homework Check-in
4. Short Story: Pages 44
  - Page 44 - What was the article he read in English class about? And why did he remember it?
For Next Class
To Read
1. Grammar in Context 1: Page 85
2. News Hour: Read "Syrian Refugee Crisis Grows by the Day" News for You article
To Do
1. News Hour: Write a 3 sentence summary of the "Pope Francis ..." article and post it on your blog with the tag COCIEP200
2. Comment on your partner's blog
3. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 8 on page 86
4. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday with the Study Guide (.odt file from danoff.org) plus the handout on the Future Perfect tense
Lesson 7: April 3
In Class
1. News Hour: "Syrian Refugee Crisis Grows by the Day" News for You article
  - Photocopied the "Teacher's Guide" activity for the students
  - Broke students into 2 teams and had each develop a 3-step plan to solve the Syrian refugee crisis, then had them put their sentences and diagrams on the board. Winner was easy for me to decide, as one team forgot a period, thus only writing 2 sentences, and losing by default.
2. Grammar in Context 1: Pages 82 to 86
3. Essay Prompts (from http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/pdf/989563wt.pdf)
  - First time doing this as a class I did not give them any instruction, wanted to see how they responded. After reviewing these I will begin teaching them how to outline.
4. Quiz 1 Review and prepare for Quiz 2
5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Page 123
6. Short Story: Pages 45 to 47 and I put the review questios on the board
For Next Class
To Read
1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 45 to 47
2. News Hour: Student's Choice of Monopoly article
To Do
1. News Hour: Write a summary of the chosen news article and post it to your blog
2. Revise questionnaire in your .odt file as part of the appendix
3. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday with the Study Guide (.odt file from danoff.org) plus the handout on the Future Perfect tense
4. Comment on your partner's blog
Lesson 8: (April 4)
In Class
1. News Hour: "Fans Vote to Add Cat to Monopoly Pieces" News for You article
  - Photocopied the "Teacher's Guide" activity for the students
  - Broke students into 2 teams and had each write 4 sentences outlining their marketing plan for the piece they think should have been added. Both teams chose robots.
2. Quiz 2
3. Discussed the first 10 minutes of the MIT English Class Video (Short URL http://is.gd/cociep200video4)
4. Fast Listening: Lesson 7 plus review of Fast Listening "Calendars: Daily Planners and Scheduling" as part of ordinal numbers lesson using this handout (PDF from danoff.org)
5. Survey project:
  - Questionnaire - Review student's first drafts and make sure they are in the same document as the essay (appendix section)
  - Essay - Introduce Hypothesis
For Next Class
To Read
1. News Hour: Colombia’s legacy with Korea from The City Paper of Bogota.
To Watch
1. From 20:00 to 30:00 of MIT English Class Video (Short URL http://is.gd/cociep200video4)
To Do
1. News Hour: Write a summary of the news article and post it to your blog
2. Write a paragraph hypothesizing about how your survey results will go, put it in your .odt file and e-mail it to me
3. Finish your survey questionnaire in the same .odt file
4. Study for Quiz 3, including reading questions from Frozen Pizza
5. Comment on your partner's blog
6. Respond to 1 of the comments on your blog
Lesson 9: (April 8)
In Class
1. News Hour: "Pakistani Teen Shot by Taliban Returns to School in England" News for You article. This was the second News for You article we read about Malala, we first discussed her story back in October.
  - Students read the article independently
  - Photocopied the "Teacher's Guide" activity for the students
  - Had a short class chat about the discussion questions
2. Homework Check-in
3. Review Quiz 2 and grades thus far
4. Survey project: Review hypotheses and go over the survey essay outline:
  1. Introduction
  2. Research
  3. Hypothesis
  4. Results (table, graph)
  5. Analysis
  6. Conclusion
  7. Appendix (survey questionnaire)
5. Grammar in Context 1: Pages 87 to 89
  - As a comprehension check I had the students work with partners to develop their own "How often ..." question as with 2 answer sentences, each having the same meaning, but putting the frequency expression at a different point in the sentence.
6. NorthStar 2 R&W: Pages 124 to 126
7. Tech Setup: Wordpress.com app
  - Surprised that everyone had iPhones and that half had already downloaded the iOS version of the App
For Next Class
To Read
1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Page 127
To Do
1. Project: Organize your essay into the 7 sections we discussed in class and make the changes I give you in my comments on your essay
2. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercise 1 on page 127 and exercise 2 on pages 127 to 128
3. Study for Quiz 3: Frozen Pizza, Vocabulary plus the words from Fast Listening 7 and Grammar
4. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
5. Blog: Respond to your partner's comment on your blog
Lesson 10: (April 9)
In Class
1. News Hour: "Colombia’s legacy with Korea" from The City Paper of Bogota
  1. Q: What did the UN do in Korea after World War II? A: Divided it into 2 countries: North and South Korea.
  2. Q: What happened on June 25th, 1950? A: The Soviets began their invasion of South Korea.
  3. Q: What was the only Latin American country to join the war? A: Colombia
  4. Q: What was the Admirante Padilla? A: Colombia's only frigate, or war/naval ship.
  5. Q: What is ASCOVE? A: The Colombian war veterans association, or Asociación Colombiana De Veteranos De La Guerra De Corea.
  6. Q: What do Colombian war veterans want? A: They want their pensions and respect.
  "Colombian Navy (ARC) Navy Sleeve Insignia Icon" by Iceman0108 [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
2. Short Story: "Frozen Pizza" story review: Broke students into 2 teams and each had to write 1 comprehension question per page and then quiz the other team.
  - Q: Page 39 - What is Mrs. Stonehouse's excuse (for the small room with bunnies)? A: The room has a desk.
  - Q: Page 39 - What kind of room does the young man live in? What does it look like? A: A kid's room. It has rabbits on the walls.
  - Q: Page 40 - How many children does Mrs. Stonehouse have? A: 2
  - Q: Page 41 - What time is Mrs. Stonehouse's dinner time? A: There is no dinner time.
  - Q: Page 41 - What does Mrs. Stonehouse sound like? A: Her laugh sounds like a mobile phone.
3. Homework Check-in
4. Survey - Review organization
5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Pages 127 to 128
6. Fast Listening Lesson 8: "Calif. Church Provides Sanctuary To Immigrant" NPR story
For Next Class
To Read
1. News Hour: "Students Hurry to Finish GED® Test Before It Changes in 2014"
To Do
1. Project: Make final changes to your survey and make sure your essay is organized correctly
2. News Hour: Write a summary of the article on your blog
3. Blog: Make 1 comment on your partner's blog
4. Blog: Respond to 1 of your partner's comment on your blog
5. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 14 on page 90
6. Study for Quiz 3 (Download study guide handout from danoff.org).
Lesson 11: (April 10)
In Class
1. News Hour: "Students Hurry to Finish GED® Test Before It Changes in 2014" and "Far From the Front Lines, Computer Warriors Feel Stress"
2. Short Story: Finish team review activity
3. Survey - Explain online and offline options for students to conduct their surveys
4. Grammar in Context 1: Pages 90 to 93
5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Pages 128 to 130
For Next Class
To Do
1. Project: Do your survey
2. Study for Quiz 3 (Download study guide handout from danoff.org).
Lesson 12: (April 11)
In Class
1. News Hour: "British Tech Whiz Gets Big Payday—at Age 17" from The City Paper of Bogota
2. Fast Listening 8
3. Quiz 3
4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Review pages 128 to 130 and do page 131; then use the essay editing techniques we learned to edit the essay prompt responses we did last week
For Next Class
To Read
1. Grammar in Context 1: Read pages 92 to 93 again
2. News Hour: "Same-Sex Marriage Cases Fill Seats at U.S. Supreme Court" News for You article
To Do
1. Project: Write your results paragraph with 1 topic sentence and 2 to 4 sentences with details about your results
2. Essay: Make a results table
3. Essay: Make 2 results graphs
4. Grammar in Context 1: Part 1 and Part 2 of the test on pages 93 to 95
Lesson 13: (April 15)
In Class
1. News Hour: "Same-Sex Marriage Cases Fill Seats at U.S. Supreme Court" News for You article
2. Grammar in Context 1: Parts 1 and 2 on pages 92 to 95
3. Review quiz 3
4. Homework Check-in
5. Short Story: Started the "Star Reporter" story on pages 76 to 85 of Frozen Pizza by reading pages 76 to 78
  - Question: Page 76 - Where was the narrator Tuesday morning? Answer: He was in the Student News office.
  - Q: p. 77 - What was the narrator's job? A1: Journalist. A2: Editor of the paper.
  - Q: p. 78 - What are the differences between a tabloid and a serious newspaper? A: Tabloids focus on celebrities and do not always tell the whole truth. Serious newspapers focus on world events, economics, and more complex topics.
6. Survey project: Essay and presentation status discussion
For Next Class
To Read
1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 76 to 78
To Do
1. Project: Write the analysis paragraph of your essay
2. Project: Make the first draft of your presentation slides
3. Study Quiz 2, Quiz 3 and the vocabulary words from the "Same-Sex Marriage Cases Fill Seats at U.S. Supreme Court" News for You article
Lesson 14: (April 16)
In Class
1. News Hour: "In Chad, Lack of Food Hurts Children’s Minds" News for You article
2. Short Story: Pages 79 to 81 of the "Star Reporter" story on pages 76 to 85 of Frozen Pizza
  - Question p. 79: What is the narrator's name? Answer: Mike.
  - Question p. 79: What happens on Tuesday mornings? Answer: Student News meeting.
  - Question p. 80: Why does Mike think Angela is a good Editor? Answer: Because knows what is a good story and how to organize people to make a good article.
  - Question p. 80: Did the University tell people their new houses were on a flood plain? Answer: No.
  - Question p. 81: Did the mother want to be photographed? Answer: No.
  - Question p. 81: Why did Sue give Mike a dirty look? Answer: Because she wanted to take photographs of the mother with her stroller and Mike said no.
3. Review for final exam by breaking students into teams and having them quiz eachother (day's questions appeared on the Final Exam Study Guide)
4. Survey project: Discuss presentations and review "Survey Research Essay" handout
For Next Class
To Read
1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Pages 79 to 81
2. News Hour: "Multiple Explosions Hit Boston Marathon" Wikinews article
To Do
1. Project: Reivew the handout and make changes to your essay
2. Project: Finish your presentation
3. Study for the Final Exam (Download Study Guide)
Lesson 15: (April 17)
In Class
1. News Hour: Read and discussed the "Multiple Explosions Hit Boston Marathon" English Wikinews Article. Before our class discussion divided the students into teams to create comprehension questions for eachother:
  - Who is Ed Davis? (Boston policeman)
  - Where was the third bomb? (JFK Presidential Library and Museum)
  - What did participants see on the street? (2 explosions)
  - How much money can you get for offering information to the authoritites? (None)
  - What time did the explosion occur? (four hours after the start of the men's race)
  - How many explosions were at the Boston Marathon? (2)
2. Homework Check-in
3. Survey project: Had each student do a practice run of their presentation to prepare for tomorrow
4. Fast Listening; students completed 2 of the Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes:
  - Weather Forecast: The Four Seasons - Listening Quiz and Text Completion Quiz
  - Saving the Earth - Listening Quiz and Text Completion Quiz
  - Played the audio recording for the whole class, had the questions up on the projector and I gave the students the official Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Vocabulary Building Worksheet (Download PDF from esl-lab.com)
5. Final Exam Prep: Working from the (Study Guide) continued yesterday's activity of having students quiz eachother in teams; these are the review questions:
For Next Class
To Do
1. Project: Finish your presentation
2. Study for the Final Exam
Final Exam and Presentations (April 18)
Peeragogy Lesson Plan

Project

Survey Project

Students will This project will have students find an aspect of Chicago culture to study. Ideas could be sports, music, fashion, hotels, colleges, etc.

Project Goals

Develop a clear and easily understandable research essay
Develop a beautiful and informative slide deck
Deliver a crisp 3 to 5 minute presentation

Requirements

Your Essay must:

Be at least 800 words
Be on pages with 1.5 inch margins all around
Be hand-written and original; do not use somebody else's essay
Have a easily understood and clean table of results
Have 5 labled sections: Introduction, Research, Results, Analysis and Conclusion
Review this handout "Survey Research Essay for English as a Second Language (ESL) Students Essay Details" for guidance; download from: http://www.danoff.org/leftinfront/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/03/2012-03-06-Survey-Research-Project-for-ESL-Students-ESSAY-V-0point3.pdf.

Your Questionnaire must:

Have 10 Questions
Ask for the respondant's AGE, GENDER and NATIONALITY
Be given to at least 25 people

Your Presentation Deck must:

Have at least 4 images all of which must be either in the Public Domain or Copyright Licensed
Have summaries of your introduction, research, survey results, analysis and conclusion

Your Presentation must:

Be 2 to 3 minutes
Be delivered without notes

Policies

Materials and Technologies

Required Texts
- Elbaum, S. (2006). Grammar in context 1 (4th ed.) Student Book. Boston, MA: Heinle.
  - ISBN: 978-1-4130-0736-7. Buy on Amazon. Find at your library via Wikipedia's Book Sources.
- Haugnes, N. & Maher, B. (2009). NorthStar: Reading and writing level 2 (3rd ed.) Student Book. F. Boyd & C. Numrich (Eds.) White Plains, NY: Pearson Education.
  - ISBN: 978-0-13-240991-9. Publisher's Book Website. Buy on Amazon. Find at your library via Wikipedia's Book Sources.
- Moses, A. (2002). Frozen pizza and other slices of life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  - ISBN: 978-0-521-75078-3. Publisher's Book Website. Buy on Amazon. Find at your library via Wikipedia's Book Sources.
- News for You ISSN: 0884-3910 Print issue and teacher's guide:
  - 13 Mar. 2013 - "Experts: Fights in Washington Hurt the Economy" "Local Project Puts Brazil’s Poor on the Map"
- Teacher Handouts:
  - Fast Listening Lessons 1 to 9 by Gretchen Dee
- Plus other electronic books, articles, and materials linked to from the course calendar
- Comic Books: Amazing Mystery Funnies #21
Required Technologies
- LibreOffice installed on student's laptop or via USB stick
- Firefox installed on student's laptop or a USB stick
- A Google Account
- A Wordpress.com Blog
- A notebook
Recommended Technologies
- A Ubuntu installation (or Ubuntu Live CD) to run Ubuntu Linux on your own computer
- A Twitter account
- A Delicious or Diigo account for social bookmarking

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Final Exam and Presentations (April 18)

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Project

Survey Project

Project Goals

Requirements

Policies

Materials and Technologies

Required Texts

Required Technologies

Recommended Technologies