Monthly Archives: March 2013

What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Monday, March 18th

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Details from today’s (Mon. 18 Mar. 2013) COC IEP 200 lesson at the College of Chicago.

NEWS HOUR

The “Teacher’s Guide” activity for the “Experts: Fights in Washington Hurt the Economy” News for You activity was wonderful, forcing the students to distinguish between first, second and third syllables while listening, focusing on fluency.

NORTHSTAR 2 READING & WRITING (THIRD ED.)

Began Unit 6 on video games going through pages 113 to 114.

COMIC BOOK

Read pages 7 and 8 of the Fantom of the Fair story in Amazing Mystery Comics #21 and worked on the following comprehension questions on the board:

FICTION

After focusing last week going through “One of the Lads” again, we started reading the self-titled ” “Frozen Pizza” story (which we looked at briefly last block) from our book of short stories: Frozen Pizza and other slices of life.

HOMEWORK

To Read

Grammar in Context: Pages 77 to 79
Frozen Pizza: Pages 39 to 42
News for You: ” Local Project Puts Brazil’s Poor on the Map”

To Do

Project: Choose a topic for you next survey project and e-mail everything it to me as an .odt file
News: Write a 4 sentence summary of the article and post it on your blog
NorthStar: Write your own definitions of the words on page 116
Grammar in Context: Pages 79 to 80

COPYRIGHT NOTES

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Local project puts Brazil’s poor in the map

Posted on March 18, 2013 by gayoungjung

Brazil some place doesn’t have steerts name. there are many people live now. that is not adresses so, they can’t get mail at home. Brazil will be holding international games on the 2014 and 2016. So, polices enforce rules.

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Brazil slums

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Vincent

Brazil is a developing country. In Brazil poor people very hard for they life, someone made a map of Brazil slums. These slums were control for gangs, they sold drug and weapon all openly. All of slums get better police … Continue reading →

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Local project puts Brazil’s poor on the map.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by R

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil there are some place doesn’t have street names on maps. That’s in hillside place for poor people living “slums”. They can’t get mail at home, can’t fill in job, and can’t get bank accounts because they don’t have address. In 2014 Brazil have world cup and 2016 is Olympics so […]

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Pizza essay (Tuesday 12, 2013)

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jamie

Pizza essay (edit 3)

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What we did in our CoC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, March 12th

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Details from today’s (Tue. 12 Mar. 2013) COC IEP 200 lesson at the College of Chicago.

NEWS HOUR

Today’s news hour activity introduced students to the concept of paraphrasing, they were already summarizing articles, but the activity focused them specifically on paraphrasing the Dramatic Meteor Strike Grabs World’s Attention article’s first two paragraphs.

Afterwards we divided into teams and competed over who could answer more comprehension questions quicker!

VIDEO

Had a short chat about the Richard Grahm YouTube video that was Thursday’s homework. The students said they enjoyed it and agreed with his rule #1: (as an English student) if you think you can, you can!

They also supported future video assignments.

CHICAGO CULTURAL RESEARCH POSTER PROJECT

Evaluated the student ‘s poster drafts and had them write outlines of their short presentations they’ll be delivering on Thursday.

Download the how to make a presentation handout here (.odt file from danoff.org).

FICTION

Read through the second half of “One of the lads” together to review for Thursday’s exam.

LESSON 2 OF GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT 1 REVIEW

Spent the afternoon reviewing lesson 2. We re-read the introduction to each grammar point then, working in teams they wrote quiz questions to test the other teams. You can see their questions on the board below:

HOMEWORK

To Read

Review “One of the Lads” story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life for Final Exam

To Do

Project: Write second draft of your essay and ONLY e-mail everything to me as an .odt file
Project: Finish your poster
Presentation: E-mail me your speech as an .odt file
Study for the Final Exam

COPYRIGHT NOTES

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Lesson Plan for Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 COC IEP 200 Class: Read the lesson plan online in HTML here.

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Dramatic meteor strike grabs world’s attention

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jamie

A meteor streaked over Russia on February 15, 2013, pieces of it flew through the air before striking the ground. The experts want to find out how to spot space rocks sooner and turn them away before it hit a large city. And they think about 66 million years ago an ever larger strike killed […]

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Essay

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Paul

This second draft for my essay after i had editing.

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Summary in “Dramatic meteor strike grabs world’s attention”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Paul

Last month have a meteor fall down in Russia where remote places. there are someone captured it and send it into youtube and twitter. A piece of meteor can make money for you because value of that up to $670 per gram. Experts said they though meteor wa…

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