11/24/08

Whole class discussion of specific techniques for writing reactions to the reading.
It is so important to insert your personal experiences into your writing. It makes it more interesting for others and will engage your own mind at a higher level allowing you to retain more information.

With scaffolded beginning sentences students wrote reactions to Chapter 22 of la Linea.

Whole class discussion of CR3 pages 145-and 146. The importance of asking questions even before you read. We turned headings into questions. And also the importance of really understanding bulleted information and making it personal when ever possible.

Homework:

Read Chapters 24 and 25 of La Linea
Read CR3 pages 147 and 148
Write 2 reactions in your journal

11/19/08

Discussion of Journals:

All students have proven they are skilled at summarizing. The new goal is to make the journal entries interesting to the student (and therefore the teacher). The following suggestions were given:

Make your paragraph 90% reaction and 10 % summary. 

Write a paragraph that answers one of the following questions: 

Was the chapter realistic (or unrealistic) ?

Was the chapter or situation boring (or interesting)?

Was it well written (or poorly written).

Always support your opinion with reasons why.

Practice Quiz on CR3 P134 and 135. 

Pair discussions of the following Questions. 

Students then wrote their own structured response in the form of a paragraph to answer each question specifically and in order. 

Homework:

CR3 p141 Choose about 10 of the vocabulary words and define them in your journal.

Read Chapter 23 of La Linea

11/17/08

Preview of Chapters 3 and 4 of College Reading Three

Students participated in 2 speed reading comprehension self quizzes: 

From page 102 students were given 5 minutes to read 3 paragraphs. They then were asked to close the book and write a definition of Management. 

From Page 145 students were given 5 minutes to read the whole page and then asked:

1 What are the 2 key causes of Obesity?

2. What countries are at greatest risk? 

(students also discussed what question was easier, what strategies did they use with such limited time, how do you read fast and remember)

SLO Assessment Period on finding 2 inferences

Quiz on La Línea Chapter 22

Write a paragraph to describe: In chronological order what important events or decisions happen in Chapter 22? 

Homework:

Read CR3 p 134 to 138

Write 3 things that you learned

Re-write 2 corrected paragraphs from latest or other returned/corrected homework

11/12/08 Class Canceled (professor out sick)

11/10/08 Holiday

11/5/08

Reading selections of Obama's Victory Speech were distributed. Students were assigned one of 4 parts. There assignment was the following.

1- Read your section (page 1, 2, 3, or 4)

2- Identify the 2 or 3 most important points*

3- Use your own words to write a paragraph

use one citation (no more than 10 words long)

example: "we have never been just a collection of individuals"

The teacher circled to discuss with each student their impressions and paragraphs

Journals were collected.

La Linea Homework (3 questions on chapter 21) was collected.

Homework

Read Chapter 22

Prepare for a quiz on La Linea

11/4/08

College Reading 3   Test/Quiz

Whole Class Activity (or HOMEWORK):

Reading and Practice Quiz on La Línea Chapter 21

Make sure your answers make reference to chapter 21. 

1) Discuss one reason  that we can trust Javier?

2) Why does Javi think that the soldiers gave up looking?

3) How has Miguel shown he is mature?

JOURNALS ARE DUE ON WEDNESDAY

10/29/08

Discussion of paraphrasing (you can cut, cut, cut from the original wording, use your own words, or combine both techniques).

Whole class practiced paraphrasing the following definition of stress: "pressures or demands placed upon an organism to adjust or adapt to its environment."

As continued prep for test on Monday, we discussed questions 1,2, 5 and 7 of page 89. Also students practiced answering the following question in paragraph form. 

"What important aspects did you learn from CR3 chapter 2?"

Homework: study all the above for test/quiz on Monday. As you study re-write your paragraph and other insights in your journal. Journals due Wednesday.