Class on 3/30/09

Review of corrected homework assignments.

Individual, short writing assignments: Tell a story about your weekend using past progressive and an interruption in simple past. Also 5 sentences to practice, I am going to ... and I will... for future tense. 

Review of future tense rules on textbook 56 and 57. Students worked individually to write sentences for page 58.

Homework: take home practice test and study all assigned irregular simple past verbs.

Class on 3/25/09

Small group activity: Poetry Analysis and Translation. In small groups students looked up words, analyzed on of two Emily Dickinson poems. Students began to translate either "Wild Nights!" or "I'm nobody. Who are you?"

Small group activity: students wrote creative answers to "Then and Now" activity from textbook pages 49 and 50.

Whole class, teacher lead review of textbook pages 52 through 55: future tense. 

Test will be on 4/1/09

Homework: workbook pages 27 and 28

Finish Emily Dickinson Poem translation (see above)

Make flash cards (Base Form/Simple Past) of the following verbs:

shut, sing, sit, sleep, slide, speak, stand, steal, stink, strike, swim, tell, think, wear, win, and write.

Class on 3/23/09

Students practiced in pairs with their "used to" paragraph homework.

Independent and whole class work with "Did you use to..." and "I used to..." textbook pages 46 through 48

Teacher Observation and Survey

Homework: workbook p 24 -26 #2-4

Class on 3/18/09

Whole class practice: paragraph form and paragraph function. Students find the missing punctuation in a sample autobiographical paragraph. 

Whole class listening exercise from Textbook page 41 and  pair memory exercise and use of past progressive. 

Continued discussion of writing and final projects.

Intro to "Used to" Textbook pages 43-45

Homework:

Workbook: pages 21-22 #3, page 24 #1

Write a paragraph on one of the topics below. Try to use "Used to" frequently.

1- Describe the games you used to play when you were 7 or 8 years old.

2-When you were young what did you used to do when you would visit your grandparents?

3-Describe you favorite vacation or holiday when you were a child. 

Class on 3/16/09

In pairs students work with their new flash cards. Students asked to simple past questions starting with "Did..."

Return of Quiz #3

Discussion of latest writing assignment and future writing projects. 

Whole class present progressive practice from Text book pages 38 through 40.

Homework:

Workbook pages 19 and 20 #1 and #2

Bring a dictionary to next class 

Reminder: No Class on Wednesday 11, 2009 (Teacher's Flex Day)

Class on 3/9/09

Class practiced past tense answers about their weekend activities.

Quiz # 3

Whole class review of textbook pages 34-38

Homework: Make Flash cards of the following irregular verbs (write the the base form on one side & simple past on the other: (all verbs are from Appendix page A-1)

be, beat, become, bet, bite, bleed, blow, burn, choose, cost, cut, dive, do, dream, drink, eat, fall, feel, fight, find, fly, forget, forgive, freeze, and get.

Class on 3/4/09

Small groups (3-4 people) discussed, "What did you do last night?" Each group picked one interesting answer to report to the whole class.

Students took a practice quiz (will be Quiz #3). All answers were reviewed. Quiz consists oftwo parts: 1) Dictation of simple present verbs and students must write their Past Tense equivalent. 2) workbook page 15 #B (paragraph about Frida Kahlo). 

Students were updated with their current grades. 

Past tense listening and pair exercise: Textbook pages- 31 through 33.

Homework:

Study for Quiz

Write about a favorite artist, musician, actor, celebrity (best if they are currently living and creating work):

1. When were they born. What have they accomplished? (use past tense)

2. What makes them unique, special, or talented? (use simple present)

3. What is your "Star" doing currently? (use present progressive)

Class on 3/2/09

Whole class: Simple past tense practice, "What did you do this weekend?"

Small group work: Emily Dickinson, poems questions, opinions.

Whole class: homework reviewed.

HOMEWORK:

Textbook: page 30 (read part of page 29 about Ana Castillo)

Workbook: page 18