Details from today’s (Mon. 4 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 “France shuns use of Twitter ‘hashtag’” article from Breaking News English. Interesting article and subsequent discussion about loan words and universal languages.
Started a new lesson today and learned about the simple present tense.
SURVEY PROJECT
Checked in students draft of their 9 survey questions and edited them. Gave them back to students so they could do their final drafts tonight.
Reviewed and discussed Unit 4 pages 86 to 87.
COMIC BOOK
Finished our fourth “Fantom of the Fair” story from Amazing Mystery Funnies Vol. 3 #1 and got closer to learning the true identity of the Fantom!
FICTION
Discussed pages 15 and 16 of ‘Two Worlds’ from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life. The two main characters were spending time in Tate Modern and Rosie offered her opinions of the Dali’s Lobster Telephone and Henry Moore’s ‘Recumbent Figure.’
HOMEWORK
- NorthStar 4: “B GRAMMAR” exercises on pages 84 to 85
- News: Read “AFTER TRAGEDY, NEWTOWN DEBATES A SCHOOL’S FUTURE” News for You article and write a 3 sentence summary of the main idea and some details from the article
- Grammar: Do page 45
- Survey Project: Finish the final draft of your survey
- Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday: News for You Newtown vocab words, Vocab Words from NorthStar Unit 4 page 74 and Grammar pages 31 to 33, 41-45
- Fiction: read/review pages 15 and 16 of “Frozen Pizza …”
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