Started chapter 7 - food and how to order foods from menus and restaurants. Reviewed several foods the students already know and introduced a few new ones. Had students complete text pg. 248 activity 1 - a dialogue between a waiter and customer practicing the new vocabulary. They completed activity 2 and practiced veral drills with foods.
Assignment
Devin needs to finish his childhood activitiy project.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Students did not miss a beat over the break. They remember most of the foods from several months ago.
Introduce the Pythagorean Theorem, do some examples and practice problems.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
10
Lesson Comments
Sadie never came in but Devin finally came about 10 minutes before the class was over. So I was able to at least introduce it to him. I was substituting for Walt.
Hi hat accents, sixteenth note hi-hat ride patterns, Paralyzer, and independence drills.
Lesson Outline
Started with playing through the 16 bar review exercise for 8th note hi hat accents; Started the next unit on 16th note hi hat ride patterns; played through the intro and part of the first verse to Paralyzer; worked on a couple of 4 way independence drills.
Assignment
Work on the sixteenth note hi hat ride patterns, practice Paralyzer.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Devin's playing was very solid today. He really played the 16 bar review exercise well and he was able to pass the first few sixteenth note hi hat exercises with no trouble. There are still some parts of Paralyzer that are giving him some trouble, so I am going to start working on some 4 way independence / coordination exercises that may help him with this.
Review character names and roles. Review the traits we know about them. Review West Egg vs. East Egg and what they symbolize. Talk about Gatsby's house and his parties. Discuss the Buchanans' house. Discuss Daisy's voice: how does Fitzgerald describe it? How often? What kinds of imagery does Fitzgerald use besides (the common) sight imagery? Sound? Point out instance of syntestesia on page 40 ("yellow cocktail music"). what do we know about Jordan Baker? What does Nick discover about her? What is the nature of his connection to her?
Assignment
Read up to page 80
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Sadie was absent. Devin is way behind on the reading. He has only read the first 20 pages. He missed two days of class during out last week of school before break. Apparently he did no reading during the break to catch up. I don't want it to be impossible for him to catch up and he's a somewhat slow reader, so I told him to start at page 40 and do his best to get up to page 80. I cut out pages 21 through 39 to make his life easier. I hope it works and I hope he can catch up.
- Term paper topics/ review and discuss - Review study guide:
.Hoover and the market crash
.Life in the Depression
.the New Deal
.Legacies today
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Good lesson. Devin was absent. Term paper topics discussed and agreed upon. Completed half of the study guide review.
Sadie and Ashley ended early to assist Clint in setting up for the special lunch. The exam, scheduled for today, was postponed because of yesterday's absences.
-Continue presentation:
.causes of the economic depression
.results to population of US and later the world.
.responses: business/government
-reminder about paper topic and exam due on Friday.
Assignment
complete reading (Chap. 23) and study guide,exam,Research paper
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Since Sadie was the only student in attendance, the lesson was postponed until Friday. Sadie and I worked on developing her research paper.
