COC IEP 200 Lesson Plan
for Tue. 12 Mar. 2013

2012/13 Winter Trimester Block 3 Lesson #13

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

09:30 to 10:30 (60 minutes)

  • Nathiele will share her article summary with the class http://nchagas.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/the-meteor/
  • Paraphrasing Exercise - Rewrite the first two paragraphs of the article. When doing so, please do the following:
    • Change three words to their synonyms
    • Change the negation of one sentence. EXAMPLE: Vincent finished his homework late. becomes Vincent finished his homework early.
    • Combine short sentence into a longer one
  • Students complete the teacher's guide comprehension with their partners
  • Read and discuss the article as a class

CHECK-IN

10:35 to 10:50 (15)

  • Check-in Student's Homework
  • Discuss video
  • Ask students “Do you have any questions for me?”
  • Student grade reviews
  • Final Exam Vocab & Grammar
  • Organize Binders

CHICAGO CULTURAL RESEARCH POSTER PROJECT

10:50 to 11:20 (30)

  • Essay - Make sure I received everyone's second drafts
  • Poster - Part 2
  • Presentation - Students write a draft of their presentation and practice delivering
  • Maybe: Tools - Smart phone apps for Wordpress, Google Drive (and News For You)

SHORT STORY

11:20 to 12:15 (30)

  • Finish reading "One of the Lads" together as a class

Final Exam Grammar Review

13:00 to 13:30 (30)

  • Review "Grammar in Context 1" Lesson 2 Grammar for Final Exam

Comic Book

13:00 to 13:30 (30)

  • Finish Fantom of the Fair story

Student Learning Logs

  • Before students leave they have to write an entry in their learning logs

Homework

To Read
  1. Review "One of the Lads" story from Frozen Pizza and other slices of life for Final Exam
To Do
  1. Project: Write second draft of your essay and ONLY e-mail everything to me as an .odt file
  2. Project: Finish your poster
  3. Presentation: E-mail me your speech as an .odt file
  4. Study for the Final Exam

APPENDIX

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Paragogical Action Review

  1. Review what was supposed to happen.

  2. Establish what is happening/happened.

  3. Determine what's right and wrong with what we're doing.

  4. What did we learn or change?

  5. What else should we change going forward?

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