Monthly Archives: February 2013

Essay survey

Nathiele’s survey Date: 02/27/2013 Gender:  Age:  Nationality:  1- Do you like music? A) YES B)NO  2- Do you like blues and jazz? A) YES B)NO  3- Do you know about the history of jazz and blues in Chicago? A) YES … Continue reading

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movie survey 2

February 24 2013 it is Oscar time, nine movies are up Best Picture: Lincoln, Amour, Argo, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty…… Who will win? Who will lose? Will anyone make history? All in Oscar. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YwcGasQnwoVy6sVNvmkK1YdanTUZaKF8swoep02Gi5c/edit?usp=sharing

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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, February 27th

Details from today’s (Wed. 27 Feb. 2013COC 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.

Dug into the “American Slang” and “UFO: A Story to Remember” listening quizzes in the afternoon.

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
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  • Please respect the copyright plus terms and conditions of all links, books and media not by Charlie Danoff.
  • Unless otherwise noted, text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff. Rights given a CC Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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Worksheet: “One of the Lads” Short Story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life (Part 4)

Worksheet for the ”One of the Lads” Short Story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life by Antoinette Moses (2002; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-521-75078-3).

You can find more questions to use with this short story in part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this worksheet.

QUESTIONS

Page 35:

  1. Why were the lads quiet on the train?
  2. What was the next step in their plan?

Page 36:

  1. Why did Luke think the Lads looked awful?
  2. What did Dave cheer about?

ANSWERS

Page 35:

  1. They were out all night drinking.
  2. To meet Dave’s friend at a bar.

Page 36:

  1. Because of their shabby clothes.
  2. Dave cheered about throwing the object at the little boy.
COPYRIGHT NOTES
  • Please respect the copyright plus terms and conditions of all links, books and media not by Charlie Danoff.
  • Unless otherwise noted, worksheet text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff. Rights given a CC Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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3 sentence summary of the “England Finds a King Under a Parking Lot”

England find a king, he name is Richard III died in 1485. He was a evil king. He bone proof he is Richard III.

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England finds a king under a parking lot

Summary: The scientists found the skeleton of King Richard III under a parking lot. The bone showed battle wounds that the cause of his death and the time that he died. So it’s a time to find out that “Was Richard III an evil ruler, or not?”

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Essay

This is my Essay.

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This is my survey question.

Charlie!!!!!! This is my survey qeustions. I reached the limit of my question…. I am sorry, I will add it soon.

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Summary English finds a King

The king Richard III was found at under a parking lot in Leicester that without a coffin. From scientists search a clues , they see spine was curved that from battle to Henry Tudor for defend a crown. They will be buried in next years and this time is …

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Hw (Feb 26,2013)

Pizza project
Pizza survey

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