Week 4 (Thursday)

3-3b Listening - Nerve Cells (You may work in groups, but you must complete exercises 1, 3, & 5 individually).
To Build a Fire test was today.

Reading Homework:

http://www.buzzworthy.com/alex-medical-marijuana-used-to-combat-autistic-rage/

Week 4 (Wednesday)

Reading 3-3a

Reading Homework:

To Build a Fire

To Build a Fire Exercise

To Build a Fire Audio

Week 4 (Tuesday)

3-1c Listening Skills 9 - Note Taking - Organization

3-2a Listening Skills 10 - Note taking - Organization

Reading homework: 

3-2c Short Story 3 - To Build a Fire

Week 4 (Monday)

Reading 3-1a
Listening 3-1b

Reading homework:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/increasing-number-doctors-are-trying-reconcile-traditional-chinese-medicine-and-western-medicine-180953246/?no-ist

Week 3 (Friday)

Today is Test Day, YAY!
Reading homework for the weekend is:

http://www.livescience.com/50302-stephen-hawking-trademark.html & http://www.livescience.com/48972-stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-threat.html

Remember, due before 8:00 am on Monday:

• Grammar Record
• 4 Blogs
• Weekly Writing

Week 3 (Thursday)

Reading Homework:

http://www.healingfoundationschicago.com/blog/1128/chinese-herbs-and-western-herbs-is-there-a-difference/

Also, Listening 2-4a (if you didn't finish in class)

Week 3 (Wednesday)

Homework:
2-3a
2-3b
Finish reading The Rocking Horse Winner

Week 3 (Tuesday)

Today we studied:

2-1c Listening Skills 5 - Note Taking

2-2a Listening Skills 6 - Note Taking

Homework is to complete both exercises (2-1c & 2-2a).
How the exercises will be graded:

2-1c

• 2pts grammar
• 2pts spelling/punctuation
• 2pts cohesion/accuarcy
• 2pts clarity of overall answer

2-1a

• 2pts unique notes
• 2pts note format
• 2pts cohesion (not too long)
• 4pts overall clarity (using keyword / clear meaning)

Reading homework:

Rocking Horse Winner (pages 1-10)

https://drive.google.com/a/usa-english.com/file/d/0B8xlAVmXr2uLWnBmUmo5TThOUlk/edit

Week 3 (Monday)

Today we studied:

• 2-1a Reading - Contrasts Between Chinese and Western Medicine (not #6)
• 2-1b Listening - Contrasts Between Chinese and Western Medicine (not #7)

Reading homework for tonight is:

• http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/garlic-onions-and-cow-stomach-medieval-remedy-todays-superbugs

Week 2 (Wednesday)

Homework for tonight is to finish reading The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, and to answer the journal prompt tomorrow.

Remember to be working on:

• Your grammar record
• Your blogs
• Your weekly writing

Do not forget you are aiming towards this goal!

Friday's test is over Longevity. 

Here are some vocab words from the test that you should know:

longevity

phenomena

life expectancy

nutrition

starvation

penicillin

sanitation

sewage systems

lifespan

older generation

Week 2 (Tuesday)

Today in class we studied

• 1-1c Listening Skills 1 - Introduction
• 1-2b Writing Skills 1 - Thesis Statement

Homework for today is

• 1-3d Listening Skills 3 - Numbers
• 1-4a Listening Skills 4 - Numbers

Also, read 1-5a Short Story 1 - The Necklace
Tomorrow's prompt will be over these pages

Don't forget to be writing your blogs (1 per day) the weekly writing video (written in blog)
Grammar week 2 is due by Friday at 8:00 am.

Week 2 (Monday)

Complete Reading 1-1a

Exercises 1-5 (Homework) Due by 8:00 am 14Apr2015

• Remember that I will check for ACCURACY of your assignment. If you do not answer the questions accurately, they will be marked wrong and you will not get full points.

Study:

Listening 1-1b (In-class Practice)

Complete the Reading Homework for tonight:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/pine-beetles/rosner-text

Week 1 (set-up)

Blogs must:

be more than 100 words
be about your life specifically
be related to learning English in some way