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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 6

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:55 | News Hour
a1 | Completed the Teacher’s Guide[1] activity and an instructor generated worksheet on the Couple Sells “The Cats’ House,” But Plans a Bigger One[2] News for You article

b | 11:05 – 11:25 | Discussion of Yesterday’s Shooting in Washington, D.C.[3] and USA Gun Control Policy

c | 11:25 – 12:00 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking Third Edition[4]
b1 | 3A VOCABULARY: REVIEW (pp. 24 – 25)
b2 | 3A VOCABULARY: EXPAND (pp. 25 – 27)

d | 12:45 – 13:45 | Jungle Love[5]
c1 | Discussed the exciting events of Chapter 13 in toto. Both students were so enthralled that they read ahead!
c2 | Students read out the dramatic confrontation between Lisa & Ian

d | 13:45 – 14:15  | Grammar in Context[6] 9.2 & 9.3

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

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish grammar worksheet
2 | Fix vocabulary sentences
3 | Study for Quiz 2

NOTES

1 | http://newsforyouonline.com/tg/2013-09-04_tg.pdf
2 | http://newsforyouonline.com/stories.asp?ID=1436
3 | http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/09/questions-about-the-dc-navy-yard-shooting.html
4 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
5 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9
6 | ISBN 978-1-4130-0736-7

COPYRIGHT

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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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 13

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:15 | News Hour | Busiest Death Penalty State Is Running Out of Execution Drug [1]

b | 10:25 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 14:00 | Jungle Love[2] Pages 56 – 61

c | 14:05 – 15:00 | IEP Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Study for the Final Exam by reviewing the Quiz 3 study guide; studying the new vocabulary words from the News for You article: death penalty, running out of, execute, inmates, death row, scramble, and clamped down; and reading pages 254 to 255 of the Grammar Textbook
2 | Finish chapter 10 of Jungle Love
3 | Make the second draft of your presentation slide deck

NOTES

1 | http://newsforyouonline.com/stories.asp?ID=1429
2 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9

COPYRIGHT

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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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 11

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:40 | News Hour | First photos of Prince George (28th August, 2013)[1]
a1 | Played the audio recording of the story and had students take notes, then identify the main idea and supporting details.
a2 | Students completed the comprehension question, True/False and Synonym Match activities

b | 10:40 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 13:05 | NorthStar Listening & Speaking 2 | Unit 1[2]
b1 | Students pretended to have a jobs workshop where two leaders helped people with offbeat jobs find new employment that fit their skills.

c | 13:05 – 13:30 | Fast Listening[3]
c1 | Students took notes on the listening recording, then answered the following questions:
1 | Why does he think airplanes are amazing? (They are very heavy but can get off the ground.)
2 | What does he like to do on airplanes? (Use the entertainment system.)
3 | What does he ask other passengers for? Why? (He asks for their extra dessert or rolls, because he thinks airplane food is delicious.)
4 | What doesn’t he like about airplanes? (Turbulence)

d | 13:30 – 14:00 | Reviewed Quiz 2 and Prepared for Quiz 3 with the Study Guide[4]

e | 14:05 – 15:00 | “Friends” American TV Show Elective[5]

HOMEWORK

1 | Study for quiz 3
2 | Give your survey out to 20 people

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1308/130828-prince_george.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | http://listenaminute.com/a/airplanes.html
4 | http://www.danoff.org/leftinfront/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/IEP-200-Fall-Trimester-Block-2-Quiz-3-Study-Guide.odt
5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_RAjGxNeSs

COPYRIGHT

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/).

Details from today’s (Wed. 27 Feb. 2013) COC IEP 200 Class at the College of Chicago.

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

Discussed the “England Finds a King Under a Parking Lot” News for You article and completed the accompanying teacher’s guide questions.

One of the students asked if Richard III was really evil?

QUIZ 2 PREPARATION 

(download Quiz 2 Study Guide [PDF from danoff.org])

Has the students work together with their partners to define all the vocab in their own words and write example sentences using the words. For grammar I made 2 teams and they each wrote questions for each grammar point to quiz each other. Game ended in a tie.

FICTION

Read pages 35 to 36 and completed half the questions from this worksheet.

HOMEWORK

To Read

1. Grammar in Context 1: “EDITING ADVICE” on pages 68 to 69
2. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: pages 39 to 40
3. News Hour: “Hundreds of Soccer Matches Linked to a Huge Cheating Scandal”

To Do

1. Project: Write the final draft of your survey, upload it to Google Docs and put the link in your blog.
2. Publish the link in a blog post on your blog with the tag COCIEP200
3. News Hour: Write a 3 sentence summary of the article and post it to your blog with the tag COCIEP200
4. Grammar in Context 1: Page 70
5. NorthStar 2 R&W: All of page 110
6. Study for quiz 2 on Thursday