Date Homework
9/17/07 Substitute teacher Mr. Clegg joins our class this week. Next week we will open up a second ELD class to ease overcrowding.
Per. 1-2 Rotation
One option: Four Group Rotation per. 1-2 (25 minute groups).   
  Listening

Vocabulary

 Reading Writing
8:50-9:15 2 1a 1b 3
9:15-9:40 3 2 1a 1b
9:45-10:15 1b 3 2 1a
10:15-10:35 1a 1b 3 2

Per. 3: Me Bag Project. Due: next Mon. 9/24
Rotation: Mr. Clegg: Group # 2 into C-2 School items chart (describing items using adjectives, materials, use. etc.); School Items Cloze
Miss Butters: Group 3: World Folktales "Why Baby Says 'Goo'"; exercises on paper; POV story 1st draft
Mrs. T: Groups 1a, 1b: Survival
Per. 3: Took photos,

 
9/18/07 Today Miss Trigueros visits our class.
Get in 3 heterogeneous groups.  Vocabulary: heterogeneous  Group leaders help other students with Point of View story (paragraph form, margins, etc.)
Venn Diagram: Compare school in US and home country; Two paragraph story
Per. 3:  Continue partner introductions
Homework: 1. Finish writing your POV story on notebook paper.  2. Illustrate and color your item on white paper.
Book Club orders are due tomorrow
     Did not do: 
                Triumph in Defeat: LEA Story (Betty Lou)
                Parts of Speech
                Making Big Words

 
9/19/07 Collect Book Club orders
Warm up: School items grammar; Articles: a, an, the
(Did not: Collect Group 3's World Folktale Q & A.)
Rotation: 1. Triumph in Defeat; 2.Type POV stories on computers in B-; Story: Cookies (values); Vocabulary follow-up
Per. 3: Partner Introductions
9/20/07 Collect World Folktales Q & A!
Rotation Per. 1-2.  Tasks: Type POV story; Edit Schools Comparison Story; Survival Testing; Calendar (days of the week, months of the year)
Partner Introductions
Triumph in Defeat (Betty Lou)
Correct School item cloze
9/21/07 Collect Betty Lou homework
Take Visions reading test (most students)
Finish typing & mounting POV story; turn in
Clean up