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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday February 19th

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Details from today’s (Tue. 19 Feb. 2013) COC IEP 200 Class at the College of Chicago.

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

Discussed “School Pulls Dancers From Slums of Manila” News for You article.

2 TRUTHS, 1 LIE

We had a new student in class, to welcome him and get everyone acquainted we played a game of “2 Truths, 1 Lie” with the following questions:

  • What are you afraid of?
  • Who is your hero?
  • What is your favorite food?

SYLLABUS & CALENDAR

Spent some time going over the syllabus and new class calendar style.

TECH SETUP

Got everyone who brought their laptops set up with LibreOffice, Firefox, and Google/ Wordpress.com accounts and taught them how to use the blog to make posts.

NORTHSTAR 2 READING & WRITING (THIRD ED.)

Started Unit 5 completing page 93 together in class.

FICTION

Continued with the ‘One of the Lads’ next story from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life getting through page 28. 

COPYRIGHT NOTES
  • Image: “Ash Wednesday” by Julian Fałat [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
  • Please respect the copyright plus terms and conditions of all links, books and media not by Charlie Danoff.
  • 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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Lesson Plan for Thursday, February 14th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Thursday’s short lesson plan (presentation day) has been uploaded to my website and you can download the OpenDocument Text version of the file (36.6 kB):

  • from danoff.org by clicking the ODT icon below or here

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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.

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

Blog post text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff. Rights given a CC Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Details from today’s (Wed. 13 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.

Our school is across from St. Peter’s in the Loop and students noticed lunch mass was especially busy today and many people were practicing “Ash Wednesday,” this led to an interesting, quick religion chat.

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

Read “Chinese Toad Gets New Home After Sailing to South Africa“ article from News for You (print edition) about a frog from China’s wild adventures in South Africa! The official “Teacher’s Guide” activity had the students write a fictional short story narrated by the frog, recounting his adventures.

I was quite pleased to see the students enjoy the activity and work hard on it, will definitely have them writing more fiction going forward.

FINAL EXAM (PRACTICE)

Students completed a practice final exam today to get ready for tomorrow’s real one (click here to download ODT version from danoff.org).

SURVEY PROJECT

Developed this handout (click here to download ODT version from danoff.org) which helped clarify my expectations to the students about the presentation slide deck, presentation itself and their essays. Spent most of the morning in the computer lab working on these.

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT 1 (FOURTH ED.)

Reviewed pages 51 to 55 together.

FICTION

Started ‘One of the Lads’ our next story from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life. First page featured a boy getting dunked in a toilet! This should be a fun read.

HOMEWORK

Homework for Tomorrow:
  • Finish your presentation slide deck and e-mail to me
  • Practice giving your presentation at home
Due Tuesday:
  • Essay
  • Pronunciation Handout
COPYRIGHT NOTES
  • Image: “Ash Wednesday” by Julian Fałat [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
  • Please respect the copyright plus terms and conditions of all links, books and media not by Charlie Danoff.
  • 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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