I went over the work that Ashley completed with the substitute from yesterday and made any corrections to the verbs necessary. Then Ashley worked on her posterboard about her childhood activities and she glued pictures and wrote captions for each of the activities that she used to like to do as a kid in the imperfect tense.
Assignment
No homework
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Devin was absent today. Ashley completed her project and did a nice job of reading in spanish. She needs to try to slow down at times and be more careful with her pronounciation of vowels and double ll.
present last draft of essay to class
make 2 good and 2 helpful comments to each classmate
get teacher feedback
discuss what to do when right at the end it "seems all wrong". Show students how to salvage what you've done without throwing it all out. We used Sadie's paper as the example as she was feeling lost. Show students how to pretend to be an outside reader of your own paper. WRite topic and main point of each paragraph in margin? Most issues can be resolved by strengthening intro paragraph and first sentence of each paragraph.
Assignment
Have final copy to me on MOnday
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
I think we made a ton of progress. Students left feeling confident.
- Begin by highlighting 150 years since Civil War began.
- The stock market: how it works and students to identify values of stocks and changes.
- "The Great Crash"- present the specific details of how the market values changed and some underlying reasons.
Assignment
Continue study guide and reading-chap.24- Prep. paper topic
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Great lesson. Students active in participation and discussion.
Returned Friday exams: Sadie 100,Ashley 95, Devin 75. I spoke with Devin and agreed to give him some extra time to prepare for the next exam.
We continued--but did not complete--our review of Chapter 7 by taking turns solving problems at the white board. The understanding is good but the memories are so-so. We will complete this tomorrow and test on Thursday.
Introduced students to new vocabulary from this chapter which involves new adjectives for people's personality traits: travieso, amable, carinoso, antipatico, chismoso, chistoso, callado. Then students completed the first activity of the end of chapter review from pg. 234 - wrote sentences descriving what people were doing in the present tense and then in the imperfect.
Assignment
No homework
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Students are doing a pretty good job of transitioning from the present tense to the imperfect tense of verbs.
Paralyzer by Finger 11 - playing through the intro; accenting upbeats on the hi-hat., coordination exercises and hi hat opens/closes.
Lesson Outline
Played the last set of exercises for hi-hat accents from Realistic Rock and began the 16 bar review exercise. We played the intro to Paralyzer and continued working on the main groove for verse 1.
Assignment
Practice the 16 bar exercise, practice the intro and main groove for Paralyzer.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Devin is playing the intro to Paralyzer very well. The main groove for the verse is giving him some trouble because of the upbeat hi-hat accents. This is just a coordination issue that will be resolved with time and practice. He played the hi-hat accent exercises from Realistic Rock with control and precision. Once he gets the hang of a certain exercise, beat, etc., his playing has a great feel to it.
