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  1. Lesson 1 (April 22)

    1. News Hour: Read the "In Myanmar, Freedom of the Press Returns" News for You article and completed the comprehension questions from the Teacher's Guide. Afterwards we had a discussion about freedom of the press in everyone's countries.
    2. Short Story: We reviewed the beginning of the Star Reporter story and then read page 83.
    3. Introduce this Month's Syllabus and Calendar
    4. Movie Project: Explained that all the students will be writing short films this month instead of doing a survey, essay and presentation.
    5. Homework Check-in
    6. NorthStar 2 R&W: Completed pages 134 to 136.
    7. Grammar in Context 1: Worked on pages 102 to 103.

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.1 | Singular and Plural-An Overview" on pages 102 to 103
    2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 76 to 83 of the "Star Reporter" story
    To Do
    1. Project: Choose a subject or place for your movie and write about it on your blog
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 1 on page 103
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: "C BACKGROUND AND VOCABULARY" exercise on pages 135 to 136
    4. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday
    5. Bring your laptop to school on Tuesday

  2. Lesson 2 (April 23)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Word Worries About North Korea" News for You article and completed the comprehension questions from the Teacher's Guide. Afterwards we had a discussion about how everyone felt about North Korea and its leaders recent actions. Some were afraid, others not worried.
    2. Tech Setup: Made sure everyone had a working wordpress.com blog and the latest version of LibreOffice. Then had the students develop an "About" page for their blogs, answering: Who are you?; What do you use this blog for? and any other information they wanted to share. Also introduced students to commons.wikimedia.org as a helpful place to get images. Wherever they found their image, they had to make sure to attribute its source properly.
    3. Fast Listening: Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes from esl-lab.com Business Meeting (Short URL www.j.mp/17NI2C3) and ESL Program Meeting (Short URL www.j.mp/ZiAyqj)
    4. Short Story: Finished the "Star Reporter" story from Frozen Pizza
    5. Homework Check-in
    6. NorthStar 2 R&W page 136
    7. Movie Project: Had students work in pairs to share their answers to these 4 questions and support eachother:
      1. What is your movie's topic?
      2. Where is your movie set?
      3. What happens in your movie? (3-5 minutes)
      4. Who are the 6 characters?

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.2 | Regular Noun Plurals" on page 104
    2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 84 to 85 of the "Star Reporter" story
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "A) READING ONE: Organic Produce vs. Regular Produce" exercise on page 136
    2. Grammar in Context 1: "Exercise 2" on pages 104-5
    3. Movie Project: Answer the 4 questions discussed in class on your blog
    4. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday: NorthStar page 136 vocabulary; Star Reporter story and plural vs. singular from page 102 of Grammar in Context
    5. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog

  3. Lesson 3: (April 24)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Colombian Woman Stands In for Baby Monkey’s Mother" News for You article and completed the True/False questions from the Teacher's Guide. Afterwards we had a discussion about everyone's pet history and heard a funny story about one student's pet birds.
    2. Homework Check-in: Changed this up, met with students 1-on-1 to go over their homework and clear up any confusion individually.
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: First I read the passage aloud to the class, then individual students read paragraphs out loud and I corrected their pronunciation. One of the paragraphs had a year, which led to a discussion about pronouncing numbers and years, the notes are below (next week I will make a handout for us to go over these again): 
       
//pronouncing numbers

137
one hundred and thirty-seven
one-thirty-seven
106
one hundred and six
one-o-six

//pronouncing years

1950 = nineteen fifty
2000 = two thousand
2009 = two thousand and nine
2010 = twenty ten

1900 to 1999 = twentieth century
2000 to 2099 = twenty-first century

BC = Before Christ = Before Year 0 = BCE = Before Common Era
AD = After Death = After Year 0 = CE = Common Era
    4. Prepare for quiz 1: Students worked in teams to develop review questions and quiz the other teams. I incorporated their questions into the Quiz 1 study guide (download .odt file from danoff.org)
    5. Movie Project: Students worked to develop a draft of the first scene of their movie, focusing on 3 questions: Where are they? What do they do (in the scene)? and What do they say (in the scene)?

    For Next Class

    To Read

    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.3 | Pronunciation of Plural Nouns" on page 105
    2. NorthStar 2 R&W: "ASK MR GREEN ..." reading passage on page 137
    3. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 86 to 87 of the "Don't Miss the Mozart" story

    To Do

    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "READ FOR MAIN IDEAS" exercise on page 138
    2. Movie Project: Write a blog post with a draft of the first scene of your movie, focusing on 3 questions: Where are they? What do they do (in the scene)? and What do they say (in the scene)?
    3. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday
    4. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog

  4. Lesson 4: (April 25)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "First Lady’s Anti-Obesity Effort Gets Results" News for You article and completed the fun Teacher's Guide activity that had the students develop a healthy breakfast menu for a food desert. As an astute student pointed out, the article was a nice complement to our current NorthStar 2 Unit on Organic Food. Trans fat commonly used to keep food tasting scrumptously fresh longer was a new vocabulary term.
      Triglyceride Hydrogenation&Isomerization V.1 by Jü (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons. Afterwards we had a discussion about processed foods and the dubious quality of the AP statistics reported in the article.
    2. Quiz 1 on NorthStar 2 R&W Unity 7 Vocabulary Words; Grammar in Context 1: "4.1 | Singular and Plural-An Overview"
      3. and the "Star Reporter" story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life. Download .odt file from danoff.org [21 kB].
    3. Short Story: Started the "Don't Miss the Mozart" Frozen Pizza story
    4. Movie Project: Began part 2 of Analyze the story the Wikiversity Film School's Formatting the Script lesson. Developed a worksheet for the students to complete on their blogs.Download .odt file from danoff.org [54.8 kB].

    For Next Class

    To Read

    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.4 | Irregular Noun Plurals" on page 106
    2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Read pages 88 to 89
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: "B) READING TWO: Miles to Go Before You Eat" passage on page 140

    To Do

    1. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 4 and 5 on page 107
    2. NorthStar 2 R&W: "READ FOR DETAILS" on pages 137-8 and "MAKE INFERENCES" on page 139
    3. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday
    4. Movie Project: Complete the Analyze the story exercise on your blog.
    5. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    6. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  5. Lesson 5: (April 29)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "City in Estonia Gives Citizens a Free Ride" News for You article and completed the comprehension questions from the Teacher's Guide. Afterwards we had a discussion about the pluses and minuses of the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) and Metra trains in Chicagoland.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed student work on pages 138-9 and read this unit's second passage on pages 140-1.
    4. Grammar in Context 1: Reviewed grammar concets and question answers, then read the passage on pages 108-9.
    5. Movie Project: Went over the weekend's Analyze the story exercise in class. The students generally answered the questions correctly, but the story's dark side/windows metaphor was lost. I gave a quick overview of the force from Star Wars and then the dark side, once that was understood the students got the metaphor that Apple computers were like the Jedi order (good people using the force), and Windows computer were like those who'd chosen the dark side and joined the sith. They didn't find it funny (and I agree), bute they understood the metaphor joke was not the point of the exercise.
    6. Short Story: Read pages 88 and 89 of the Don't Miss the Mozart story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life.
    7. Student Grammar Questions (will be on Thursday's quiz):
      • What's the difference between "interesting" and "interested"? "Interesting" is a noun, while "interested" is a verb. Finding something interesting means you like it and/or want to learn more about what you're describing. To be interested in something means you want to do it or learn more about it; you are interested in things you find interesting.
      • What's the difference between "instead" and "instead of"? Both mean something replaces another thing; i.e., "rather". Instead is an adverb, while instead of is a preposition. Instead of can come at the beginning or middle of a sentence; instead in the middle or at the end. Examples: "He chose to play computer games instead of doing his homework." "He was going to study, but he played computer games instead." "Instead of his girlfriend cleaning his apartment, he cleaned her house."
    8. Student Vocabulary Questions (will be on Thursday's quiz):
      • What's the meaning of the idiom as a matter of fact? -> It is used when arguing or discussing something with another person to say something surprising; say "Actually ..."; "In addition ..." and/or to clearly state a fact. The word "matter" means something that is important.
      • "The 'L'" taught students that in chicago typically the CTA trains are not called the subway, but its local nickname instead: "The 'L'" which is short for elevated tracks.

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "Finding an Apartment" on pages 108 to 109
    2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Pages 90 to 91
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Comprehension questions on page 141 and "STEP 1: Organize" on page 142
    2. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday
    3. Movie Project: Download and install hte Celtx software from celtx.com by clicking "Get Started Now"
    4. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    5. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  6. Lesson 6: April 30

    In Class

    1. News Hour: We read the News for You article about students doing the "Harlem Shake" in Tunisia and the reactions from others in their society. After completing the Teacher's Guide activity, we had an interesting discussion about Tunisia and the Arab Spring in general.
    2. NorthStar 2 R&W
    3. Short Story: Read pages 90 and 91 of the Don't Miss the Mozart Frozen Pizza story
    4. Fast Listening: Students completed 2 of the TOEFL listening quizzes from Randall's ESL Cyber Lab: Internet Access and Saving the Earth.
    5. Movie Project
    6. Handed back Last Month's Final Exam and Gave Grades

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.5 | Using There + Is/Are" on page 110
    2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 92 to 93
    To Do
    1. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 6 and 7 on page 111
    2. NorthStar 2 R&W: Comprehension questions on page 141 and "STEP 2: Synthesize" on page 143
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    3. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday
    4. Movie Project: Write a script for the story about the dark side in Celtx and e-mail it to me.
    5. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    6. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  7. Lesson 7: May 1

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Scientists Learn About Heart Disease by Studying Mummies" News for You article and completed the Teacher's Guide exercise. Afterwards I had them search through one column of the text to find words ending in "s" and decide which of the three IPA symbols we learned in section 4.3 | Pronunciation of Plural Nouns (p. 105) of our Grammar textbook is the correct pronunciation.
    2. Homework Check-in + Quiz 1 and Grades Review
    3. Short Story
    4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Completed the vocabulary "REVIEW" exercise on page 144
    5. Short Story: Read pages 92 to 93 of the “Don't Miss the Mozart!” short story in Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life
    6. Grammar in Context: Pages 110 to 112
    7. Movie Project: Reviewed everyone's writeups of the "Seduced by the Dark Side" story then explained tonight's assignment to story board the tale. Additionally I had the students act out one of the

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 94 to 95
    2. Grammar in Context 1: "4.6 | Questions and Short Answers Using There" on page 112
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "REVIEW" on page 144 and "EXPAND 1" on pages 144-5
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 8 and 9 on pages 112-3
    3. Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday; be sure to review the study guide (.odt file from danoff.org) and quiz 1
    4. Movie Project: Fill out the Thumbnail Storyboard (.pdf file from wikimedia.org) worksheet from Wikiversity
    5. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    6. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  8. Lesson 8: (May 2)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "King Richard I’s Heart Held Daisies" News for You article and completed the Teacher's Guide exercise. We then had a fun discussion about what each student would like to have done to their bodies after they die: ranged from cremation to donating the organs to others.
      Tomb of Richard I of England at Rouen Cathedral, France. (Photographed June 2003). This work has been released into the public domain by its author, AYArktos. Via Wikimedia Commons.
    2. Movie Project: Students compared their storyboards they did last night for homework with one another, and then one student who did particularly good drawings shared hers with the class.
    3. Quiz 2 (.odt file from danoff.org)
    4. Short Story: Read pages 94 to 95 of the “Don't Miss the Mozart!” short story in Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life
    5. Vocabular Words that Came Up in Class:
      • cremate = body burned after death
      • organ transplant = someone donates part of their body (heart, lungs, etc.) to someone else
      • disfavor - opposite of favor
      • announcement = share news with a small group, company, school, or organization
      • dough = mixture of flour and liqud that can be made into bread, cake, etc.
      • doughnut = fried dough

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 95 to 96
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "EXPAND 2" on pages 145-6 and "CREATE" on pages 146-7
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 10 and 11 on pages 114 to 115
    3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
    4. Movie Project: Write your first scene in Celtx and e-mail it to me
    5. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    6. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  9. Lesson 9: (May 6)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Boston Marathon Bombing: Acts of Terror Are Hard to Stop" News for You article as well as the Simple English Wikipedia article about the event and then I had the students compare and contrast the two. Afterwards we discussed the event, whether people were talking about it in their home countries, how the City of Boston responded and how events like these affect people's interpretations of Muslims.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. Review Quiz 2 (.odt file from danoff.org) and Grades
    4. Short Story: Finished the "Don't Miss the Mozart!"story from Frozen Pizza
    5. Movie Project: Handed back student's first drafts of their first scene and explained tonight's homework to revise the scene and write a draft of the next one.
    6. Poetry: We read and discussed "Byways and Hedges" by Marwan Fateen
    7. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed student work and discussed the exercises on pages 144 to 147.
    8. Student Questions, two students asked the difference between near synonyms. I am going to do some research, anyone reading with a good answer, please contact me or leave it in the comments, thanks!
      • What's the difference between really and very?
      • What's the difference between whole and entire

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.7 | There vs. They and Other Pronouns" on page 115
    2. NorthStar 2 R&W: "GRAMMAR: Wh- Questions in the Simle Present Tense" on page 148
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: "GRAMMAR 1" on page 148 and exercise 2 on pages 148-9
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 12 and 13 on page 116
    3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
    4. Movie Project: Revise your first scene and write the first draft of scene two

  10. Lesson 10: (May 7)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "For Some, the Air Will Soon Be Thick With Cicadas" News for You article and completed the corresponding Teacher's Guide exercise. The students were not happy to hear this summer will be very noisy with lots of bugs!
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: "Wh- Questions in the Simple Present Tense and with Can and Should" Grammar reading and exercises on pages 148 to 149 about making questions with auxiliary verbs, with a complementary handout of "UNIT B: Questions from the Understanding and Using English Grammar Volume A (2nd Ed.)" book as well as "Appendix C | Question Formation" (pp. AP4 – AP5) of Grammar in Context 1 (2nd Ed.)
    4. Short Story: Read page 48 of "Sweetie" our newest story from Frozen Pizza
    5. Fast Listening: Taped Library Tour and Airport Announcement
    6. Movie Project: Handed back their first and second scenese they turned in.
    7. Y as a Vowel: During a discussion about vowels it came up that at times the letter "y" can be a vowel. I mistakenly said it is only a vowel when the word has no other vowels. According to OxfordDictionaries.com "The letter Y can be regarded as both a vowel and a consonant. ... Whether the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant is therefore rather an arbitrary decision." Additionally, it should be noted that the letter "w" can also sometimes be a vowel. More reading:

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.8 | Articles with Definite and Indefinite Nouns" on page 118
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 3 and 4 on page 149
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 14 on pages 118-9
    3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
    4. Movie Project: Revise your first and second scenes; write your third scene

  11. Lesson 11: (May 8)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "How Congress Could Change Immigration Laws" News for You article and then completed the 7 difficult comprehension questions from the "Teacher's Guide". We had a informative discussion about immigration and emigration here in the USA as well as in their own countries. To finish I gave the faux Citizenship Test from the "Teacher's Guide" orally to the class instucting them to answer as quickly as possible, with the stakes being only 1 of them would win and become a USA citizen.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. Prepare for Quiz 3: We reviewed this quiz's study guide (.odt file from danoff.org).
    4. Grammar in Context 1: Pages 114 to 119
    5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed exercises 3 and 4 on page 149, which (most) students already completed for homework.
    6. Short Story: Read the second e-mail in the "Sweetie" story from Frozen Pizza.

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Quiz 3 Study Guide
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1 and 2 on page 150
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 15 on pages 119-20

  12. Lesson 12: (May 9)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Despite Protests, Builders Remove Part of the Berlin Wall" News for You article and then completed the "Teacher's Guide" activity that introduced students to the words "despite" and "in spite of", having them make senteces about the article with those words. Afterwards we had a fun discussion about history and different ways it can be preserved or lost as well as who writes history.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. Quiz 3
    4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Worked on pages 150 to 151. Students were having some trouble understanding the activity that had them make a brochure, but together we figured it out.
    5. Short Story: Read the third e-mail in the "Sweetie" story on pages 52 to 53 of Frozen Pizza.
    6. Fast Listening: Completed the "Battle at the Front" and "World News Stories"; 2 of the TOEFL listening quizzes from Randall's ESL Cyber Lab.
    7. Movie Project: Reviewed the proper formatting students should be using for their stories.

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "4.9 | Making Generalizations" on page 120
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on pages 151-2
    2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 16 to 21 on pages 120-3
    3. Study for Final Exam on Thursday, including vocabulary words from the "World News Stories" listening quiz.
    4. Movie Project: Finish your script.

  13. Lesson 13: (May 13)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Project Brings Color to Haiti Slum" News for You article and then completed the "Teacher's Guide" activity where students drew pictures of their version of a painted Jalousie home. "Shallow" was a wonderful vocabulary word that emerged from the activity.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. Short Story: Read pages 54 to 55 of the "Sweetie" story on pages 52 to 53 of Frozen Pizza
    4. Grammar in Context 1: Reviewed student work on pages 119 to 123.
    5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Students worked together on exercises 2 through 5 on page 152, after there was a lot of confusion amongst students trying to finish the activity on their own.
    6. Movie Project: Students read eachother's scripts and offered suggestions.

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "Summary of Lesson 4" on page 123 and "EDITING ADVICE" on page 124
    To Do
    1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1 and 2 on page 153
    2. Study for Final Exam on Thursday
    3. Movie Project: Finalize your script

  14. Lesson 14: (May 14)

    In Class

    1. News Hour: Read the "Former U.S. Presidents Cost Nearly $3.7 Million in 2012" News for You article and then completed the "Teacher's Guide" activity where students wrote a paragraph explaining their opinions on whether or not former Presidents should receive financial assistance.
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. NorthStar 2 R&W: Finished Unit 7, as the students worked in pairs to develop brochures promoting one kind of produce (regular, organic or local) to a target audience (teenagers, parents, single people, etc.)

    4. Fast Listening: Did the I Love Trees and A Rare Solar Eclipse "Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes [Prepare for TOEFL/TOEIC Tests with These Lectures, Interviews, and Conversations]"
    5. Reviewed Quiz 3
    6. Movie Project: Shot two of the class' 6 movies today, finish the rest tomorrow!
    7. Student Question(s): One question that come up today was the difference between come and go. Go can mean moving anywhere, while come is only used if you are moving towards the speaker or subject.
      8. Difference between come and go

    For Next Class

    To Read
    1. Study for the Final Exam
    To Do
    1. Grammar in Context 1: "LESSON 4 TEST / REVIEW" PARTS 1 to 4 on pages on page 125-7
    2. Movie Project: Edit your movie if you are finished

  15. Lesson 15: (May 15)

    In Class

    1. News Hour
    2. Homework Check-in
    3. Prepare for the Final Exam
    4. NorthStar 2 R&W
    5. Short Story
    6. Grammar in Context 1
    7. Movie Project

    For Next Class

    To Do
    1. Study for Final Exam on Thursday
    2. Movie Project: TBA
    3. Blog: Comment on your partner's blog
    4. Blog: Respond to your partner's blog

  16. Final Exam and Movie Screenings (May 16)

Instructor

Project

Short Movie Project

Students will write a short screenplay and then shoot a movie with the other students in the class.

    Cf.
  • https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Manual/Writing/Screenplay_Format
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20080802052432/http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/format_a.txt
  • https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Lesson:Formatting_the_script

Policies

  1. 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.
    • 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.
        "Star Reporter" Story Questions
      • Page 83 - Who is Carol Peters? What happened to her? (She is the same person as Carol Peterson. She got in trouble with the police for the death of a baby she was watching.)
      • Page 84 - What did Angela tell the tabloids? (She told them the truth about Carol Peters' new name and that she had a child.)
      • Page 84 - What hapened to Carol and Robbie? (Social services took Robbie away and Carol left London.)
      • Page 85 - Why did Mike quit being a reporter? (He quit because he felt guilty about how his job ruined Carol's new life. It was the moment that changed his life, which he mentioned in the beginning of his story.)
      • Page 85 - What did Mike e-mail? (He e-mailed the truth about Carol Peters to the tabloids before Angela called them.)
        "Don't Miss the Mozart" Story Questions
      • Page 86 - Where is the train station?
      • Page 86 - What did the young woman do to Nicole?
      • Page 87 - Why does Melanie think Nicole is French?
      • Page 87 - Why is Mel at the train station?
      • Page 87 - What is Melanie's nickname?
      • Page 88 - What does Nicole mean when she thinks the restaurant looks "quite French in fact."?
      • Page 88 - Why does Nicole think she should've asked for a larger fee?
      • Page 89 - Why did the bead and brekfast owner refuse to give Nicole coffee?
      • Page 89 - What does Nicole prefer: to stay in bed and breakfasts or luxury hotels?
      • Page 94 - What happened to Louise Conte? (Mel did not pick her up, so she went back to London.)
      • Page 95 - What happened after the 3 stars (* * *)? Where is the story now? When is it? (There was a shift in point of view forward in time and to a different place. It was some weeks later in Manchester.)
        Sweetie
      • Page 48 - What did Nikki and Rob do last night?
      • Page 48 - What did Rob ask Nikki before she sent this e-mail?
      • Page 49 - What does Nikki want from Suzie
      • Page 50 - How did Nikki feel about the talk? Did Rob feel the same?
      • Page 50 - Why would no girl say "no" to Rob?
      • Page 52 - Why was Nikki late for class?
      • Page 52 - Why does Nikki think her Dad will give her money?
      • Page 54 - Why does Nikki say she needs to buy books?
      • Page 55 - Why does Nikki have trouble communicating with her mom?
    • News for You ISSN: 0884-3910 and website newsforyouonline.com.
    • Plus other electronic books, articles, and materials linked to from the course calendar

    Required Technologies

    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