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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 1 Lesson 2

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 09:45 | Reviewed last block’s Final Exam

b | 09:45 – 09:50 | Reviewed revised syllabus and welcomed another new student

c | 09:50 – 10:45 & 10:55 – 12:00 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | One in five songs “advertises” alcohol (5th October, 2013)[1]
c1 | Warm-up activity #3
c2 | Read the article; answer comprehension questions and finish the “Synonym Match” activity
c3 | Listened to “Royals”[2] by Lorde. A song by a 17-year-old whose subjects include alcohol and one of the themes is that some people are not interested in the luxurious life style including expensive alcohol like Grey Goose. This was fun to discuss in light of an article about how songs with alcohol as one of their subjects were influencing young people to drink more.

d | 12:45 – 13:00 | Family History Discussion
d1 | Over lunch some students got to dicussing their family histories and it continued into the beginning of the afternoon

e | 13:00 – 13:40 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[3] | Unit 3
e1 | Pages 37 – 38

d | 13:30 – 14:10 | Fiction | Fantom of the Fair Episode 1[4]
d1 | Pages 3 – 4 of the Fantom episode

e | 14:10 – 15:00 | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the new vocabulary words from NorthStar

NOTES

1 | Download lesson at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131005-pop-songs.pdf via http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131005-pop-songs.html
2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
3 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
4 | Taken from the pages of “Amazing Mystery Funnies” Volume 2 Number 7 http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=756

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