Summary of Class on 11/18/10

Instructor demonstrated another example of how to read in an engaging manner to an audience of  preschoolers.

Whole class review of common past tense verbs

In Class writing assignments:

What do you do every morning?

What did you do last weekend?


Whole class discussion of resume types and uses.
Emphasis on different convention of pronoun use and punctuation (often opposite to what has been taught this semester)

Homework: Create a draft of your own Resume

Summary of Class on 11/12/10

Instructor returned corrected paragraphs and whole class discussion/review of necessary aspect of a paragraph.
Introductions (and paragraph stays on this topic)
Specific facts (on same topic). Sentences must have punctuation.
Stays in chronological order.
Has an definite ending
Retains the look of a paragraph (indented and no extra spaces or line returns after sentences)

Individual in class work: Students rewrote their paragraphs and turned into the teacher.

In class paragraph writing assignment. "What are three things you did this morning?

Quiz: from reading of text: pages 139 to 141

1 Did the text focus on positive or negative modeling?
2 How is punishment different then negative reinforcement
3 Write 1 or 2 sentences on something you learned from the reading
4 Write a paragraph on "What are three things you learned in professor Palma's class?"

Homework:
Read text pages 143 to 148 on Piaget

Summary of Class on 11/4/10

Review of paragraph requirements:

In class writing assignment: "What did you do yesterday?

Discussion of Erikson's 4th stage of development

Group activity:

Form groups of 3 to 4 students and describe how to help different age children with assigned activities according to Erikson's insight regarding their stages.

Practice Quiz

Homework: Read text: pages 139 to 141 be ready for quiz