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Lesson Plans for Winter Trimester 2013 – 2014 Block 2 Week 4 of The College of Chicago Intensive English Program 200 Class

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Crazy week of Chicago weather has led to the College of Chicago being closed yesterday and today. Below are links to the lesson plans for the remainder of the week (Winter Trimester 2013 – 2014 Block 2 Week 4).

Core Lesson Plan

Download .odt file from danoff.org

News Hour Lesson Plan

Download .odt file from danoff.org

You can download LibreOffice for free to read and edit .odt files.

Lesson Plans & Text Copyright © 2014 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc). Rights available under a CC Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

Posted in Adult English, COC IEP 200, EFL, ELT, ESL, Lesson plan, TEFL, TESL

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class: Read the HTML lesson plan here and see the source on Github here.

Posted in COC IEP 200, Collaborative Lesson Planning, ELL, ELT, ESL, Frozen Pizza and other slices of life, Lesson plan, One of the Lads, TESL, TESOL, The College of Chicago

Lesson Plan for Wednesday February 6th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Wednesday’s lesson plan has been uploaded to my website and you can download the OpenDocument Text version of the file (41.4 kB):

from danoff.org by clicking here

You can download LibreOffice for free (for Mac, Windows & GNU/Linux) to read and edit the document. If you would prefer to use Microsoft Word, here are instructions for Word 2007 and Word 2010/2013. If you are on a Mac using OSX 10.8 these instructions may help.

Below is the cover of our next (5th!) Fantom of the Fair story we’ll be reading in class:

Comic Book Image is (possibly) in the Public Domain and found via the Digital Comics Museum.

“OOoWriter3logo“ By OpenOffice.org [LGPL], via Wikimedia Commons

Posted in COC IEP 200, Collaborative Lesson Planning, ELL, ELT, ESL, Lesson plan, TESL, TESOL, The College of Chicago, The Fantom of the Fair

Lesson Plan for Tuesday February 5th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Tuesday’s lesson plan has been uploaded to my website and you can download the OpenDocument Text version of the file (41.4 kB):

from danoff.org by clicking here

“OOoWriter3logo“ By OpenOffice.org [LGPL], via Wikimedia Commons

Posted in COC IEP 200, Collaborative Lesson Planning, ELL, ELT, ESL, ESOL, Lesson plan, TESOL, The College of Chicago

Lesson Plan for Thursday January 31st COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Thursday’s lesson plan has been uploaded to my website and you can download the OpenDocument Text version of the file (41.4 kB):

from danoff.org by clicking here
from my Google Drive by clicking here

You can download LibreOffice for free to read and edit the document. If you would prefer to use Microsoft Word, here are instructions for Word 2007 and Word 2010/2013.

Below is one of the pages of the Fantom of the Fair comic we’ll be reading Thursday (comprehension questions are in the lesson plan).

Images are (possibly) in the Public Domain and found via the Digital Comics Museum.

Posted in COC IEP 200, Collaborative Lesson Planning, ELL, ELT, ESL, Lesson plan, TESL, TESOL, The College of Chicago

Lesson Plan for Wednesday January 30th COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Monday’s lesson plan has been uploaded to my website and you can download the OpenDocument Text (version of the file by clicking here (41.4 kB from danoff.org).

You can download LibreOffice for free to read and edit the document. If you would prefer to use Microsoft Word, here are instructions for Word 2007 andWord 2010/2013.

Below is one of the pages of the Fantom of the Fair comic we’ll be reading Wednesday (comprehension questions are in the lesson plan).

Images are (possibly) in the Public Domain and found via the Digital Comics Museum.

Posted in COC IEP 200, Collaborative Lesson Planning, ELL, ELT, ESL, Lesson plan, TESL, TESOL, The College of Chicago