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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, May 22nd

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 3

Lesson 3: (May 22)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Began by having the students look for the IPA sounds we are studying this week in the “Experts Wonder What Happened to Monarch Butterflies” News for You article. Read “Lawsuit Says Anheuser-Busch Beers Are Even More Watered Down Than You Think” article from TIME Magazine’s website and completed a worksheet prvided by Emily Kiang.
  2. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed student’s work on pages 162-3.
  3. Grammar in Context 1: Reviewed student’s work on page 135.
  4. Documentary Project: Outlined the time schedule students will have to follow as they develop their documentaries.
  5. Review Ordinal Numbers and Go Over General Number Pronunciation
  6. Short Story: Read pages 56-7 of the “Sweetie” story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life

For Next Class

To Read

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: “READING TWO: On the Road with John Madden” on pages 163-4 and “STEP 1: ORGANIZE” on pages 164-5.
  2. Grammar in Context 1: “5.3 | Questions with Whose Exercise 4” on page 136
  3. Documentary: Contact 1 person/place to interview
  4. Study for Quiz 1 on Thursday: Download Study Guide (28 kB .odt file from danoff.org)

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, May 21st

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 3

Lesson 2 (May 21)

In Class

  1. News Hour: “Read the Fast-Thinking Helpers, Hospitals Save Lives of Boston Bombing Victims” then completed the Teacher’s guide having students search for “sh” = /ʃ/ | “ch” = /t/ | “j” = /ʤ/ | and “z” /z/ sounds. I matched them with their corresponding IPA sound and had the students do the same. These symbols will be part of the student’s quizzes and tests this block.
  2. NorthStar 2 R&W: Read the passage on page 160 about “The Climate Train” and reviewed student’s work on page 161.
  3. Fast Listening: We completed the Space Radio Theater and A Visitor from Space listening quizzes.
  4. Homework Check-in
  5. Movie Project: Students discussed their ideas for their documentaries with one another.
  6. Short Story: Read pages 60-61 of the “Sweetie” short story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life.
  7. Twilight Zone: Watched episode 3 of season 1 about a town drunk who finds his way out of the pit.

For Next Class

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: “READ FOR DETAILS” on page 162; “MAKE INFERENCES” on page 162; and “EXPRESS OPINIONS” on page 163.
  2. Grammar in Context 1: “5.2 | Possessive Adjectives Exercise 3” on page 135
  3. Documentary: Find 3 people or places to interview
  4. Study for Quiz 1: NorthStar Unit 8 Vocabulary, story line, theme, genre, literal meaning, figurative meaning, and sections 5.1 & 5.2 of Gramar in Context

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, May 20th

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 3

Lesson 1: Introducing Possessive Form of Nouns, Travel Vocabulary, Butterfly News & Short Story Reading Practice (May 20)

  1. News Hour | Reading Learning Objective(s): Comprehending main ideas and some details from a news article. |Read “Experts Wonder What Happened to Monarch Butterflies” News for You article and then answered the comprehension questions from the “Teacher’s Guide.” Had a discussion about why the butterfiles were called “Monarchs,” turns out it “was first published in 1874 by Samuel H. Scudder because ‘it is one of the largest of our butterflies, and rules a vast domain;’ however, the name may be in honour of King William III of England.” (via Wikipedia).
  2. NorthStar 2 R&W | Vocab Learning Objective(s): Use context to infer meaning of new vocabulary. | Pages 155-9.
  3. Grammar in Context 1 | Grammar Learning Objective(s): Introduce Possessive Form of Nouns | Pages 131-4.
  4. Introduce this Month’s Syllabus and Calendar
  5. Movie Project | Went over their homwork for tonight and that they will be able to choose between
  6. Short Story | Reading Learning Objective(s): Students practice independent reading, so they will be comfortable doing it on their own time. | Read pages 58 to 59 of “Sweetie”

For Next Class

To Read

  1. This Syllabus

To Do

  1. What do you want added to the syllabus? How would you like it changed? (Write answers in your notebook)
  2. Movie Project: Brainstorm and write 3 ideas for a short film or 3 ideas for a documentary on your blog.
  3. Grammar in Context 1: “5.1 | Possessive Form of Nouns Exercise 1″ on page 133 and “Exercise 2″ on page 134
  4. NorthStar 2 R&W: “READING ONE: The Climate Train” on pages 159-60 and “READ FOR MAIN IDEAS” on page 161
  5. Study Vocabulary from NorthStar 2 Unit 8 for Quiz 1 on Thursday
  6. Bring your laptop to school on Tuesday

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, May 14th

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 14: (May 14)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “Former U.S. Presidents Cost Nearly $3.7 Million in 2012” News for You article and then completed the “Teacher’s Guide” activity where students wrote a paragraph explaining their opinions on whether or not former Presidents should receive financial assistance.
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. NorthStar 2 R&W: Finished Unit 7, as the students worked in pairs to develop brochures promoting one kind of produce (regular, organic or local) to a target audience (teenagers, parents, single people, etc.)

  4. Fast Listening: Did the I Love Trees and A Rare Solar Eclipse “Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes [Prepare for TOEFL/TOEIC Tests with These Lectures, Interviews, and Conversations]”
  5. Reviewed Quiz 3
  6. Movie Project: Shot two of the class’ 6 movies today, finish the rest tomorrow!
  7. Student Question(s): One question that come up today was the difference between come and go. Go can mean moving anywhere, while come is only used if you are moving towards the speaker or subject.

    8. Difference between come and go

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Study for the Final Exam

To Do

  1. Grammar in Context 1: “LESSON 4 TEST / REVIEW” PARTS 1 to 4 on pages on page 125-7
  2. Movie Project: Edit your movie if you are finished

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, May 13th

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

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 13: (May 13)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “Project Brings Color to Haiti Slum” News for You article and then completed the “Teacher’s Guide” activity where students drew pictures of their version of a painted Jalousie home. “Shallow” was a wonderful vocabulary word that emerged from the activity.
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. Short Story: Read pages 54 to 55 of the “Sweetie” story on pages 52 to 53 of Frozen Pizza
  4. Grammar in Context 1: Reviewed student work on pages 119 to 123.
  5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Students worked together on exercises 2 through 5 on page 152, after there was a lot of confusion amongst students trying to finish the activity on their own.
  6. Movie Project: Students read eachother’s scripts and offered suggestions.

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Grammar in Context 1: “Summary of Lesson 4” on page 123 and “EDITING ADVICE” on page 124

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1 and 2 on page 153
  2. Study for Final Exam on Thursday
  3. Movie Project: Finalize your script

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, May 10th

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 12: (May 9)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “Despite Protests, Builders Remove Part of the Berlin Wall” News for You article and then completed the “Teacher’s Guide” activity that introduced students to the words “despite” and “in spite of”, having them make senteces about the article with those words. Afterwards we had a fun discussion about history and different ways it can be preserved or lost as well as who writes history.
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. Quiz 3
  4. NorthStar 2 R&W: Worked on pages 150 to 151. Students were having some trouble understanding the activity that had them make a brochure, but together we figured it out.
  5. Short Story: Read the third e-mail in the “Sweetie” story on pages 52 to 53 of Frozen Pizza.
  6. Fast Listening: Completed the “Battle at the Front” and “World News Stories”; 2 of the TOEFL listening quizzes from Randall’s ESL Cyber Lab.
  7. Movie Project: Reviewed the proper formatting students should be using for their stories.

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Grammar in Context 1: “4.9 | Making Generalizations” on page 120

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on pages 151-2
  2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 16 to 21 on pages 120-3
  3. Study for Final Exam on Thursday, including vocabulary words from the “World News Stories” listening quiz.
  4. Movie Project: Finish your script.

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Wedensday, May 8th

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 11: (May 8)f

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “How Congress Could Change Immigration Laws” News for You article and then completed the 7 difficult comprehensin questions from the “Teacher’s Guide”. We had a informative discussion about immigration and emigration here in the USA as well as in their own countries. To finish I gave the faux Citizenship Test from the “Teacher’s Guide” orally to the class instucting them to answer as quickly as possible, with the stakes being only 1 of them would win and become a USA citizen.
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. Prepare for Quiz 3: We reviewed this quiz’s study guide (.odt file from danoff.org).
  4. Grammar in Context 1: Pages 114 to 119
  5. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed exercises 3 and 4 on page 149, which (most) students already completed for homework.
  6. Short Story: Read the second e-mail in the “Sweetie” story from Frozen Pizza.

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Quiz 3 Study Guide

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 1 and 2 on page 150
  2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 15 on pages 119-20

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, May 7th

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring 2013 Block 2

Lesson 10: (May 7)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “For Some, the Air Will Soon Be Thick With Cicadas” News for You article and completed the corresponding Teacher’s Guide exercise. The students were not happy to hear this summer will be very noisy with lots of bugs!
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. NorthStar 2 R&W: “Wh- Questions in the Simple Present Tense and with Can and Should” Grammar reading and exercises on pages 148 to 149 about making questions with auxiliary verbs, with a complementary handout of “UNIT B: Questions from the Understanding and Using English Grammar Volume A (2nd Ed.)” book as well as “Appendix C | Question Formation” (pp. AP4 – AP5) of Grammar in Context 1 (2nd Ed.)
  4. Short Story: Read page 48 of “Sweetie” our newest story from Frozen Pizza
  5. Fast Listening: Taped Library Tour and Airport Announcement
  6. Movie Project: Handed back their first and second scenese they turned in.
  7. Y as a Vowel: During a discussion about vowels it came up that at times the letter “y” can be a vowel. I mistakenly said it is only a vowel when the word has no other vowels. According to OxfordDictionaries.com “The letter Y can be regarded as both a vowel and a consonant. … Whether the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant is therefore rather an arbitrary decision.” Additionally, it should be noted that the letter “w” can also sometimes be a vowel. More reading:

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Grammar in Context 1: “4.8 | Articles with Definite and Indefinite Nouns” on page 118

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 3 and 4 on page 149
  2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 14 on pages 118-9
  3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
  4. Movie Project: Revise your first and second scenes; write your third scene

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, May 6th

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 9: (May 6)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the Boston Marathon Bombings News for You article as well as the Simple English Wikipedia article about the event and then I had the students compare and contrast the two. Afterwards we discussed the event, whether people were talking about it in their home countries, how the City of Boston responded and how events like these affect people’s interpretations of Muslims.
  2. Homework Check-in
  3. Review Quiz 2 (.odt file from danoff.org) and Grades
  4. Short Story: Finished the “Don’t Miss the Mozart!”story from Frozen Pizza
  5. Movie Project: Handed back student’s first drafts of their first scene and explained tonight’s homework to revise the scene and write a draft of the next one.
  6. Poetry: We read and discussed “Byways and Hedges” by Marwan Fateen
  7. NorthStar 2 R&W: Reviewed student work and discussed the exercises on pages 144 to 147.
  8. Student Questions, two students asked the difference between near synonyms. I am going to do some research, anyone reading with a good answer, please contact meor leave it in the comments, thanks!
    • What’s the difference between really and very?
    • What’s the difference between whole and entire

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Grammar in Context 1: “4.7 | There vs. They and Other Pronouns” on page 115
  2. NorthStar 2 R&W: “GRAMMAR: Wh- Questions in the Simple Present Tense” on page 148

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: “GRAMMAR 1″ on page 148 and exercise 2 on pages 148-9
  2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 12 and 13 on page 116
  3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
  4. Movie Project: Revise your first scene and write the first draft of scene two

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What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, May 2nd

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Spring Trimester 2013 Block 2

Lesson 8: (May 2)

In Class

  1. News Hour: Read the “King Richard I’s Heart Held Daisies” News for You article and completed the Teacher’s Guide exercise. We then had a fun discussion about what each student would like to have done to their bodies after they die: ranged from cremation to donating the organs to others.
    Tomb of Richard I of England at Rouen Cathedral, France. (Photographed June 2003). This work has been released into the public domain by its author, AYArktos. Via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Movie Project: Students compared their storyboards they did last night for homework with one another, and then one student who did particularly good drawings shared hers with the class.
  3. Quiz 2 (.odt file from danoff.org)
  4. Short Story: Read pages 94 to 95 of the “Don’t Miss the Mozart!” short story in Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life
  5. Vocabular Words that Came Up in Class:
    • cremate = body burned after death
    • organ transplant = someone donates part of their body (heart, lungs, etc.) to someone else
    • disfavor – opposite of favor
    • announcement = share news with a small group, company, school, or organization
    • dough = mixture of flour and liqud that can be made into bread, cake, etc.
    • doughnut = fried dough

For Next Class

To Read

  1. Frozen Pizza and other slices of life: Review pages 95 to 96

To Do

  1. NorthStar 2 R&W: “EXPAND 2” on pages 145-6 and “CREATE” on pages 146-7
  2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercises 10 and 11 on pages 114 to 115
  3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
  4. Movie Project: Write your first scene in Celtx and e-mail it to me
  5. Blog: Comment on your partner’s blog
  6. Blog: Respond to your partner’s blog

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