Monday, August 22, 2011

August 8-19

The groups' Projects went well, with students showing tremendous creativity
in their creation of superheroes.

Students invented from scratch a male and female superhero. They brought
these creations to life with drawings, descriptive paragraphs, circle
graphs, and timelines.

Classes also took Quiz #2, an open-book, completely essay-based exercise
focused on Denmark, the European Union, and Brazil.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

July 26-August 5

Two out of the three classes wrapped up their study of Denmark (finishing
the book reading) and the European Union (reviewing a hand-out), with one
class still to see and discuss the movie clip on the latter.

These two school weeks following the vacation brought the roll-out of
Bellworks, which give students 10-15 minutes at the beginning of each class
to reflect on questions (written on the white board before
school) relating to the previous day's lesson. This first round of Bellworks
represents Classwork #4 and has a Homework follow-up assignment.

Students were encouraged to be more independent about Spanish-English
translation while stretching their ideas.

Next up is the Project, followed by the Exam review and the Exam itself.