I check for understanding and try to engage my ELL students to actively participate in the lesson. When they are done, I then ask each group to share their fact sheets and for the rest of the class to fill out the Navajo Culture handout on the board from what they learn from their classmates. When each group has presented their fact sheets, I instruct the students to fill out the other part of the Culture handout with their own culture. We then put those answers on the board. I instruct the students to put away their worksheets until tomorrow and project cloze sentences with the new vocabulary.
“To develop their critical thinking skills!!! Hat tip Atlas Shrugs I am croiss-posting this story direct from Atlas Shrugs because Pam Geller says it quite well. In the Rialto, California School District, students are being assigned to write an essay arguing whether the Holocaust actually happened or was invented to “influence public emotion and gain”. http://pamelageller.com/2014/05/california-school-district-defends-writing-assignment-confirming-denying-holocaust.html/ First of all, even Germany admits to the Holocaust and educates its younger generations about what happened-at least since the late 1960s when their younger generation started asking questions of their parents and demanding answers. Of course, that was in West Germany.
(2010, April 29). Crime stats test rationale behind Arizona immigration law. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from www.cnn.com: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-29/justice/arizona.immigration.crime_1_sen-russell-pearce-illegal-immigration-law?_s=PM:CRIME Cave, D. (2011, October 4). Their lives and families in U.S., illegal migrants keep crossing. The International Herald Tribune, p. 1.
Your responses should help you to write the essay. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Before leaving office, George Washington sounded a warning about political parties and their potential to divide and destroy America. TASK A: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer the questions that follow each document. Your answers to the questions will help you write the essay. TASK B: Write an essay that addresses the following question: To what extent was George Washington correct in his warning about political parties?
Mexican Drug War Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-drug-war-statistics-2012-6 Sole, K. (2010). Writing college research papers. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Urban Violence and Crime. (2005).
Starting with Alan Brinkley’s America History is a textbook. This textbook is directed towards advance placement students in high school and college students. The purpose for Brinkley writing this textbook was to help inform and teach students about our countries history. It provides a structured way to help students and teacher learn/teach the material. Howard Zinn wrote his book also as a professor to inform the reader of what happened in our countries history.
CONTENT * Ask the class to give you terms associated with study * Write these terms down on the blackboard * Discuss the purpose of studying * Give different outlines of the different study methods you are teaching * Read global Warming in the Geography textbook as well as the teachers summary * Use group interaction to go through study steps of these global warming pages * After each step analyze the information obtained and have a class discussion * The arrangement show how learners arrange the information differently from each other * Use spider diagram or mind maps to summarize information of global warming serving to let learners practice summarizing techniques CONCLUSION * Give a quick overview again of study method * Ask class what they have learned extra about studying * What part of the method do they think will be most helpful to them * Give homework HOMEWORK * Learners must use their geography handbooks * Give specific page number and
In the article, " Using tests ans an incentive to motivate procrastinators to study", written by Bruce W. Tuckman, in winter 1998, the purpose of using tests as an incentive is investigated to determine if using tests as an incentive can motivate people to study. In order to compare two groups of college student, Tuckman seprate eight two college student in to two groups. One group was giving a spot test for each cheapter through out the smester, the other was told to writing a outline of each cheapter in the textbook for a homework assignment. In the end of the smester, we could compare the overall score on a final achievement examination. The ropic of this study leads the readers to question: Why is this study important to our lives?
| | |Using guiding questions, lead students through discussion on the importance of each | | |document. | | |Day Three: | | |Ask students to decide if they would go. This could be a quick write at the | | |beginning of the session, or just something the teacher asks them to think about. | | |Have students stand on a designated side of the room if they would “Go” or “Not Go” | | |west. Working through each object/ document, ask students to use their evidence to
Biology, chemistry, physics, and the interpretation of graphs are now all tests in the science area of the ACTT. "Knowing everything about the main sciences is a key skill to have to be successful for the rest of your life. Without that knowledge someone would be lost," a professor who teaches English at Stanford University claims. The newest part of the ACTT is the social studies section. This test will have students answer questions about the history of the US, European history, the history of their own state as well as the history of their own city.