Class on 10/1/14

Student brainstormed 77 verbs with their past tense spellings. Students then choose 10 verbs to study:

1. prayed
2. sang
3. thought
4. learned
5. won
6. saw
7. flew
8. wore
9. left
10. did

Students played a diversity game:

Diversity Exploration Instructions

1. If a classmate can answer a question, ask him/her to sign the box
2. Each person can answer only one question on your sheet
3. You can sign your own name to one box
4. You will have 10 minutes to get as many signatures as possible
5. Remember: this is a fun exercise designed to explore diversity, not a competition!

Students wrote a past tense paragraph about Tuesday. All students started with the following sentence: "It was a terrible (terrific or typical) Tuesday."

Workbook. Pages 39 and 40

Homework: Read Gandhi: Chapter Three pages 7 to 10. Write 6 sentences in your own words about what happened in this part of his life.

Class on 9/29/14

Warm Up

Where are you from?

How old are you?

When where you born?

Where do you work?

How do you get to ...?

What do you think about


Whole class work on the creating your own sentences that express the main idea of a paragraph. Students learned to summarize with their own words. 

Homework: Read Ghandi pages 4 to 6. Write 6 sentences in your own words. Edit later to see if all sentences are about the main ideas in the reading. Cross out the weakest 2 sentences. You need 4 sentences total. 

Class on 9/24/14

Warm up
Javier (the class slammer) led the whole class in a fake quiz to practice our latest simple past tense verbs.

Quiz #2

TPR

Students wrote three sentences about their activities yesterday. They read all three sentences to the whole class. Whole class activity: Students then reviewed/wrote the rules for paragraphs. Then students wrote independently a paragraph about yesterday. Students then worked in pairs to present their ideas. They did not read their paragraphs but tried to remember the images and speak with out reading.

Students reviewed as a whole class the presentation rules and then did formal presentations about yesterday.

Whole class review of Chapter one of Gandhi. Students shared the sentences that they thought were important and would make good quotes. Class discussed difference between quoting and using their own words. Students then wrote two sentences in their own words about Gandhi.

Homework: read page 34, 35 and 36. Complete exercises on pages 35, 36 and 37 

Class on 9/22/14

Warm Up:
Students constructed past tense sentences using the simple pictures on the board.

Students discussion of Empathy and Sympathy: whole class watched a video
Empathy video


Students took a practice quiz on past tense verbs from last week:

Students reviewed past work and made corrections;

Whole class discussion of Tuesday Field Trip to Cañada College Campus.

Review of last homework and pages 26 and 27

Students studied the following Song and its lyrics

ARCTIC MONKEYS LYRICS

"Do I Wanna Know?"

Have you got colour in your cheeks?
Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift
The type that sticks around like something in your teeth?
Are there some aces up your sleeve?
Have you no idea that you're in deep?
I dreamt about you nearly every night this week
How many secrets can you keep?
'Cause there's this tune I found that makes me think of you somehow and I play it on repeat
Until I fall asleep
Spilling drinks on my settee

(Do I wanna know)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few?
'Cause I always do
Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

So have you got the guts?
Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts
Simmer down and pucker up
I'm sorry to interrupt. It's just I'm constantly on the cusp of trying to kiss you
I don't know if you feel the same as I do
But we could be together if you wanted to

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you (crawling back to you)

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few? (you've had a few)
'Cause I always do ('cause I always do)
Maybe I'm too (maybe I'm too busy) busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

(Do I wanna know?)
Too busy being yours to fall
(Sad to see you go)
Ever thought of calling darling?
(Do I wanna know?)
Do you want me crawling back to you?

Homework:

Read the Introduction and Chapter One of Gandhi: pages iv, 1 and 2: Copy three great/important sentences. 

Class on 9/15/14

Warm Up

How do you exercise. Students wrote a list of the healthy exercises that they participate in.

Students Completed a chart on adjectives to describe people:


Students wrote 5 sentences about last Sunday. They interviewed 4 students and collected 4 actions from each. Students read out loud their answers to the whole class.

Students selected 10 past tense verbs to study

1. fought
2. bought
3. brought
4. grew
5. wrote
6. woke
7. slept
8. watched 
9. drank
10. moved

Homework: Study the new verbs above. Read Page 23 and 24: Who Moved My Cheese. Answer questions on page 24 and 25. 

Class on 9/8/14

Warm up: TPR

6 New Interview Questions: Students interviewed, took notes, and reported out answers to the whole class.

1. What is your full name? 
2. What is one of your nicknames? (the funnier the better)
3. What is your favorite food? Use Adjectives and be specific!
4. What food(s) do you hate?
5. What did you want to grow up to be (profession) when you were little?
6. What is something about you that people find surprising?

Students practiced Oral Presentations;

"Good Evening,

My name is ________________. I love to eat _________________. I hate _________( another food). Thank you."

Students took a quiz

Whole Class read page 18 in the workbook

Whole Class reviewed Paragraph Rules:
1. Indent!
2. General introduction (not specific)
3. Focus!! One theme, idea.
4. Punctuation, capitals and spelling
5. Give it an ending (Finally, At last, In the end, - Opinion or Summary

Homework: 

Take your interview and change it into a paragraph. Include the most interesting information that you learned. The first sentence should be:
         "I interviewed ______________. " 

Homework due 9/8/14

Homework:

Write ten simple past tense sentences. 

Study the ten past tense verbs (from above). 

Worksheet questions from Canine Companions reading. 

Class on 9/3/14

Interview a classmate that you do not know very well. Ask the following questions:

• Where were you born?
• Do you have a large or small family?
• How many siblings (brothers and sisters) do you have?
• What town do you live in?
• How many hours of sleep do you get each night?

 _______was born in....

She has a large family.

What did you do last weekend?

Review of simple past tense verbs (spelling and pronunciation):

eat      ate
go      went
have   had
talk     talked
play    played
make  made
cook   cooked
visit    visited
walk   walked
drive   drove

It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way

{Uh}

[Chorus:]
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

[Verse 2:]
Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,
Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don't waste your time
Here's why

[Chorus]

{Hey
Go
Uh}

[Bridge:]
(Happy)
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
I said (let me tell you now)
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
I said

[Chorus x2]

{Hey
Go
Uh}

(Happy) [repeats]
Bring me down... can't nothing...
Bring me down... my level's too high...
Bring me down... can't nothing...
Bring me down, I said (let me tell you now)

[Chorus x2]

{Hey
C'mon}