Monthly Archives: February 2013

Chicken Vesuvio

Chicken Vesuvio was born in 1930s , Vesuvio Resturant it’s very populatized, Because they have own recipe. Chicken Vesivio , a specialty of Chicago is an Italian-American. In addition if you don’t like Chicken they have have Steak Vesuvio, Pork Chop Vesuvio or Vesuvio Potatoes too.

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London zoo counts every animal, from tigers to tatantulas.

Zoo in London they counts every animal every year. It’s very good idea, Because they will know birth rate and death rate. If they know exponsion ratio zookeeper will get plan next year.

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Iran Says It Say Monkey Into Space …

Iran say they sent a monkey into space but the U.S. doesn’t trust him, Because a photo of monkey befor and after is look different photo. Hamid Fazeli leader of Iran’s space program, He want to sent a human into space in five year for machines satellites. But The U.S. worries about nuclear weapons.

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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, February 21st

Details from today’s (Thu. 21 Feb. 2013COC IEP 200 Class at the College of Chicago.

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

Discussed “Iran Says it Sent Monkey into Space” News for You article. In addition to the exercise from the Teacher’s Guide, had the students engage in a mock team debate. One side was arguing that the monkey really did go out to space and come back, the other saying the monkey never came back.

Gave each team some time to meet with each other and prepare their arguments before going back and forth trying to make the best one!

CHICAGO CULTURAL RESEARCH PROJECT

Looked through the student summary paragraphs that have been published to make sure everyone is on the same page and making progress.

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT 1 (FOURTH ED.)

Did a lot of grammar today, pounding through pages 56 to 62.

FICTION

Continued with the ‘One of the Lads’ next story from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life getting through page 32, working through a worksheet I prepared.

COPYRIGHT NOTES

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Worksheet: “One of the Lads” Short Story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life (Part 2)

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 and part 3 of this worksheet.

QUESTIONS


Page 31:

  1. What is Luke’s perfect excuse?
  2. Who is The Cat?
  3. Why is Bonetti’s name sacred?

Page 32:

  1. Why did Luke begin to relax?
  2. Where do they the Lads want to go to see England play?
  3. What does Steve want when he says “my glass is empty” to Luke?

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ANSWERS

Page 31:

  1. Football
  2. Peter Bonetti, former Chelsea FC goalie (his Wikipedia Article)
  3. Because he is the best goalie in Chelsea FC history.

Page 32:

  1. Because there was not going to be a fight.
  2. Amsterdam
  3. He wants Luke to buy him a drink.
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02/20/2013

Iran sent a monkey into space, but U.S. government disagree, is worry Iran research nuclear. The article main mean is “The dark night,”  shot 65 days in Chicago. In the movie is Gotham city. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-dark-knight-location-map,0,3631449.mapmashup

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02/19/2013

What is the Chicago in movies. When women can go to war of the front lines. Two army families have two views: 1. the family think women same men, another think women can not go to war of the front … Continue reading

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Research

Summary Chicago have a lot of famous team sports. Chicago have been candidate to 2016 summer olympic but lost to Rio De Janeiro. In Chicago have popular team such as Chicago Bulls (The team in NBA),Chicago Blackhawk (The team in NHL),Chicago Bears (The team in NHL) and Chicago fire (the name of MLS). Chicago has […]

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Summary 1

Article: “Pizza” source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza Summary: Pizza is a baked food that popular in many parts of the world. Pizza was originally  in Greek. Modern pizza originated in Italy. Pizza can be baked in an oven with stone bricks, an electric oven, a brick oven, a conveyor belt oven, a barbecue grill or baked in a pan.

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Iran says it sent monkey into space

Iran said it sent monkey(named “Pishgam”) into space and showed only different photos of the monkey before and after the flight. So the U.S. isn’t sure that the mission ever happened. But John Logsdon,  a former professor of space policy in Washington, D.C., thought its possible.

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