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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | https://www.mr.danoff.org/cociep200

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 13

Links and book information indicated by brackets [1] is available in notes at bottom.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:37 & 10:47 – 11:30 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Iran’s Rouhani addresses UN General Assembly[1] | 27th September, 2013
a1 | Students listened to an audio podcast of the article 3 times for its main idea and details
a2 | Students read the article and completed “Multiple Choice Questions” exercise
a3 | Students completed “Synonym Match” exercise
a4 | “Friends” debtate: Student A believes American and Iran will soon be friends; B disagrees

b | 11:30 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 13:15 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking[2] | Unit 2
b1 | PRODUCTION: Redesigning a Neighborhood | Page 34

c | 13:15 – 14:05 | Grammar in Context 1[3] | Overview of Modals

d | 14:05 – 14:10 | Project | Review survey experiences

e | 14:10 – 14:15 | Reviewed quiz 3

g | 14:15 – 15:00  | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish 2nd draft of your presentation
2 | Finish the grammar worksheet
2 | Study for the Final Exam (use quizzes 1&2 and the quiz 3 study guide)

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130927-un-speech.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, September 24th, 2013

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | https://www.mr.danoff.org/cociep200

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 10

Links and book information indicated by brackets [1] is available in notes at bottom.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:50 & 11:00 – 11:35 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Newly-crowned Miss America suffers racist abuse (19th September, 2013)[1]
a1 | Warm-up activity: debate about whether or not beauty pagents are a thing of the past
a2 | Listened to the article and students determined the main idea and supporting details
a3 | Students completed comprehension questions and the synonym match activity
a4 | Had a class discussion about beauty pagents and their implications in general

b | 11:35 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 13:20 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking Third Edition[2]
b1 | Pages 31 – 32 on the theta θ and eth ð IPA symbols
b2 | Read pages 136 and 139 of English Pronunciation Made Simple[3] on the same 2 symbols

c | 13:20 – 13:55 | Fast Listening | Listen A  Minute.com
c1 | Art[4]
c2 | Autumn[5]

d | 13:55 – 14:15 | Quiz 3 Study Guide Review

e | 14:15 – 15:00  | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Study for Quiz 3
2 | Fix article summaries and questionnaire

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130919-miss-america.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | ISBN 978-0-13-111596-0
4 | http://listenaminute.com/a/art.html
5 | http://listenaminute.com/a/autumn.html

COPYRIGHT

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 6

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:42 | News Hour | Good grammar means more money (20th August, 2013)
http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1308/130820-grammar.html
* The three vocabulary words we will focus on from this article for Thursday’s quiz are: text, profitable and campaign.

b | 10:52 – 12:00 | NorthStar Listening & Speaking 2 | Unit 1
* Reviewed last night’s vocabualry homework, then spent a while digging into each of the words.
* Completed the vocabulary activity on pages 9-10.

c | 12:45 – 13:55 | Fiction | Jungle Love (pp. 42 – 43)
p. 42 | QUESTION: What was like a bomb exploding? | ANSWER: The pelican diving into the sea to catch a fish.
p. 42 | Q: What is a jetty? | A: British word for dock.
p. 42 | Q: Does Lisa really like birds? (look at page 7) Why do you think she tells Ian she likes birds? | A: No, she does not like birds. She probably tells Ian she does, because she wants to talk to him and attract his attention.
p. 43 | Q: Why is Lisa jealous of the pelican? | A: Ian seems more interested in it than her.
p. 43 | Q: Why does Lisa frown? | A: Because Ian made a comment about her eating too much that made her sound greedy.
p. 43 | Q: How is Caroline boring to Ian? | A: She always worries about what she eats and if it’s too much fat.

d | 13:55 – 14:06 | Grammar
* Reviewed Monday’s grammar homework.

e | 14:06 – 15:00 | Elements of Style Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Study NorthStar & news vocabulary for Thursday’s quiz 2
2 | Take notes on the Listen a Minute Advertising exercise and write 6 discussion questions
3 | Finish up any missing homework

COPYRIGHT NOTES

Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc).
Rights given a  CC Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, April 25th

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2012 Block 2

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. image
    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”

Frozen Pizza and other slices of lifeDownload .odt file from danoff.org

  1. Short Story: Started the “Don’t Miss the Mozart” Frozen Pizza story
  2. 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
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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday February 6th

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Details from today’s (Wed. 6 Feb. 2013) COC IEP 200 Class at the College of Chicago. You can compare what happened below with the lesson plan, heading into class. For context, please see this page with more past lesson plans for this class and all the class recaps.

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

Read “British Towns Sell Art to Pay the Bills” article from News for You about London’s Towler Hamlets borough selling ‘Draped Seated Woman,’ a Henry Moore sculpture, to balance their budget.

Oddly enough, Moore’s ‘Recumbent Figure’ sculpture came up in class Monday as the characters in the ‘Two Worlds’ short story gave their thoughts on the piece while perusing Tate Modern.

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT 1 (FOURTH ED.)

Reviewed page 45 together as a class then completed Exercise 3 on page 46.

SURVEY PROJECT

Discussed how it went last night for students conducting their surveys in Chicagoland. Everyone had positive things to say about the experience! Then taught the students how to craft topic sentences for the “Survey Results” and “Analysis” paragraphs of their essays.

COMIC BOOK

Started our fifth “Fantom of the Fair” story appearing in Amazing Mystery Funnies #22 (July 1940) following similar themes to previous stories, this one is set in a baseball organization.

FICTION

Finished  and completed the worksheet questions from its publisher (Cambridge UP). After that we looked at numerous photos of Tate Modern to give students a sense of what they were reading about. This led to a short discussion on the differences between classical art and modern art as well as touching on postmodern art and post-postmodern art.

Kept reading ‘The Old Oak Bowl’ from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life getting trough pages 20 to 21. 2 additional comprehension and 1 discussion question(s) arose in addition to those in the lesson plan linked above:

PAGE 21

  1. In the first paragraph on page 21 who is the “she” woman?
  2. How do the antique shop owners help Mr. Walker?
  3. (Discussion) Do you agree or disagree that it’s wrong to sell presents?“Things are not always what you believe them to be.” Do you believe this? Give an example.

Answers:

  1. His female colleague who sold the chair he repared for her.
  2. By not throwing away furniture they think he might like.
  3. Answers vary.

HOMEWORK

Survey Project:

  1. Write the “Results” paragraph answering “How and where did you do your survey?” and a table of the results
  2. Write the “Analysis” paragraph answering “Were you surprised by the results?” and “How did they compare to your research?”
  3. Each paragraph has to be more than 3 sentences
  4. The essay needs to be turned in, in 1 document containing the writing already done (introduction and research paragraphs)
  • NorthStar: pages 88 to 90, EXCEPT #5 on page 88 and #4 on page 90
  • Grammar in Context 1: page 47
  • Fiction: read/review pages 20 to 21 of “Frozen Pizza”
  • News: read “People Are Living Longer, but Are Sicker” and answer the comprehension questions
  • Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday – Download Study Guide (ODT from danoff.org)

COPYRIGHT NOTES

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  • Unless otherwise noted, class recap text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff. Rights given a CC Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
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