GED Class 2013

By GEDclass2013

  • GED Class Begins

  • Political Cartoons

    Social Studies: DNA Testing and the 4th Amendment

  • Cells/Diagrams, Maps

    Cell Diagrams (Science) and Maps (Social Studies) - each table of students has a different type of map, and students read the key, determine the audience and purpose, etc.

  • Breaking Down the Prompt

    Breaking Down the Prompt for the GED Essay - working to understand how to interpret what GED test makers want from GED test takers

  • Independent work

    Writing and Reading

  • Scientific Method/Chromatography Experiment

    Scientific Method demonstration
    Chromatography experiment with summer leaves
    Introduction to Photosynthesis

  • Pre-Colonial America and Grammar

    Students work with tribes and present to class to understand commonalities and diversity among tribes
    Fragments and Runons

  • Important Documents

    Deconstructing Columbus Day
    Declaration of Independence
    Constitution - matching scenarios to Amendments

  • Slavery and Freedom

    Students read primary accounts of slavery in a circle, and discuss slavery/freedom/racism.

  • Biodiversity

    Cause-effect relationships in biodiversity and sustainability

  • Transcendentalist literature and accept/except, affect/effect

    Accept/except, affect/effect worksheets/instruction
    Read, paraphrase, and reflect on Thoreau's Walden and Emerson's "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"

  • mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization

    Students study mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization
    Students use a Punnett Square

  • Narrative

    Students learn about plot arc
    Students write a narrative

  • Graphs and Healthy Eating

    Students engage with graphs
    Students explore genetically modified foods and healthy eating, and create related graphs with data on the computer

  • Team Teaching - Health Careers

    1. Practice speaking/listening skills and report back to the class
    2. Identify effective/ineffective professional behavior (interviewing, cell phone use, etc.)
    3. Understand the benefits and challenges in entering the health care profession
    4. Ask questions if the health care field is right for them
    5. Create a better understanding of professionalism in general

  • Labor Day

    No School

  • GED Reading Practice Exam

    Point of View
    Order of Events
    GED Reading Practice Exam

  • Social Studies and Writing Practice Exams

    Social Studies Practice Exam
    Writing Practice Exam
    Writing Exercises - Subject-Verb Agreement

  • Science Practice Exam

    Science Practice Exam
    Reading or Social Studies Additional Work (needs based)

  • Identifying Body Systems

    Use of Youtube and Interactive media online to instruct about human body systems

  • Essay - Introductions

    Writing introductions to 5-paragraph GED Essays, write THREE introductions, to three different prompts, selected randomly

  • Essay - Body Paragraphs; Social Studies - Think like a Test Maker

    Students write body paragraphs to one of their introductions
    Social studies - students craft questions and answers for Social Studies "exam"

  • Essay - Conclusion, Revision; Newspapers

    Essay - students write conclusion and begin revision process
    Students read newspaper articles, summarize one article, and present sumarries and discussion questions to class in circle

  • Essay Presentation; Google Scavenger Hunt

    Students present essays around a "seminar table"
    Students participate in a Google "Scavenger hunt" (early 20th century history)

  • Timed Essay and Inventions Research

    Timed Essay
    Students Research Inventions in the early 20th century with guiding questions, write a narrative for the invention, and present it to the class

  • Business Letters, Busines Project

    Students learn about business letters, revise wordy business letters with poor grammar, as well as emails that should rather be marked by brevity
    Students begin a business project in which they create a "Business idea" and slogan, and this day they created a flier and began a business letter

  • Poetry, autobiography, and business letters

    Students encounter an array of accessible poetry (Angelou, Hughes, Kipling, cummings) and comment on them
    Students encounter clips of autobiography
    Students engage with creating their business letter for imagined business (announcing opening to local businesses)

  • Punctuation, Memos/Emails

    Students learn about proper punctuation
    Students write memos/emails to "new employees"

  • Armstrong and Catching-Up

    Read Neil Armstrong's work and discuss point of view
    Catch-up (for students who remained - most went to sign up for GED)

  • Travel Narratives, Conjunctions, Business Documents

    Travel Narratives - students engage with classic travel narrativess (Keruoac, Steinbeck) and map out their journeys, pose questions, look up confusing words, research on the Internet, etc.
    Conjunctions - Coordinating and Subordinating
    Business Documents GED practice

  • 20th Century overview

    History of the 20th century - landmark events, aerospace science, politics, wars, women, civil rights, art/music

  • History of Outer Space

    Egyptians, Copernicus, Galileo

  • Politics Discussion - Education and the Professional World

    Discussion about education - including socio-economic factors, Professional world and gender

  • Writing activity - choose a prompt

    Prompts included - gender and the professional world, ills of the educational system, and the value (or lack thereof) of funding outer space travel

  • Zach at Conference - Hungry to Write

  • Free-write, essay, sentence level critique

    1. 10 minute free write based on a simple “listing” prompt, for example: names of all the people I have known; places I have been, lived in, or traveled through; things I want for my house. Discuss the way we organize information when writing (by category, alphabetizing, chronologically, etc.)
    2. Read about and discuss writing with “vivid detail.”
    3. 20 minute free write, what is the best/worst customer service experience ever provided/received
    4. Select best sentence from work, write each stude

  • Middle East, Periodic Table

    1. Identify the Middle East on a map
    2. Understand on a fundamental level the origins of ancient civilization
    3. Understand the importance of global awareness (via Nelson Mandela)
    4. Understand the role of oral tradition in ancient culture
    5. Encounter texts that relied on oral tradition at their origin
    6. Encounter concepts of matter and atoms (history of models, etc.)
    7. Engage with the periodic table
    8. Research specific elements

  • Atoms, Pronouns-antecedents, Origin stories

    1. Draw atoms
    2. Identify pronouns
    3. Pronouns-antecedents
    4. Correctly use who/whom
    5. Identify why people write stories of their origins (whether on a large scale creation story or a small scale autobiography

  • Atoms and molecules, Parts of Speech

    1. Create models of atoms and molecules
    2. Review parts of speech, nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs

  • Matter-atoms-molecules

    1. Define matter
    2. Identify the charges of neutron, proton, and electron
    3. Identify smaller particles: quarks, mesons, gluons
    4. Identify elements and properties of elements on the periodic table
    5. Review drawing atoms
    6. Understand molecules
    7. Draw molecules
    8. Write molecular formulas
    9. Balance molecular formulas

  • The Glass Menagerie

    1. Read a Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and identify main idea, analyze characters, etc
    2. Identify dialogue and monologue
    3. Answer GED questions on dramatic textx

  • Shakespeare Sonnet, and other poetry

    1. Read/translate/paraphrase a Shakespeare sonnet
    2. Read other early modern poems, namely that of John Donne
    3. Read key 19th century poetry
    4. Read 20th century modern poetry
    5. Write a summary/paraphrase of any given poem, identify key parts of a poem to support their claim of the main idea, and write a personal reflection

  • Asia, GED questions on Computer

    1. Identify/explain various aspects of ancient and modern Asian history/culture
    2. Identify/explain various aspects of Asian languages
    3. Identify Asian countries on a map
    4. GED questions on the computer (Contemporary's GED)

  • Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion

    Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion, utilizing math skills

  • Zach at Conference: Hungry to Write

  • Circuit Board Fun! Start with Zines

    Electronics Theory 101
    Circuit board assembly
    Compare/contrast zines and magazines
    Identify central topics with prompt "What we wish to see change in the world, and why"

  • Zine Writing

    Students begin a three-day project of conceptualizing, drafting/planning, writing, typing, and revising essays.

  • Zine Writing

    Students continue a three-day project of conceptualizing, drafting/planning, writing, typing, and revising essays.

  • Zine Writing

    Students complete a three-day project of conceptualizing, drafting/planning, writing, typing, and revising essays.

  • Science GED practice

    Contemporary's GED program - Science subject focus with Tutor present for support

  • Life Science Vocabulary Review

    1. Review basic Life Science principles/vocabulary
    2. Set up a study program for internalizing vocabulary

  • Zach at Conference

  • Life Science Quiz, Historical Photographs, Cells Study Guide

    1. Take a Life Science Vocab quiz that is evaluated
    2. Read about and identify important parts of an historical photograph
    3. Start work on Cells Study Guide to prepare for quiz (Monday)

  • Library Day

    1. Use the library
    2. Obtain a library card
    3. Understand how to reference materials in books and in the dictionary
    4. Understand plagiarism
    5. Learn how to Cite sources

  • Annotated Bibliography

    Using the topics from their essays for the zines, students research topics and:
    1. Cite Sources
    2. Summarize Sources
    3. Create an annotated bibliography

  • Quiz, Social Studies Practice Test

    1. Assess vocabulary retention on Cells (biology)
    2. Work through a practice test in a workbook
    3. Assess “what do I know?” and students research 1 or 2 things that come up that they don’t know

  • Subject-verb agreement, Social Studies practice exam

    1. Complete packet on subject-verb agreement/irregular past tense verbs/dangling modifiers/etc.
    2. Work on second (different) social studies practice test

  • Practice Exam and Research

    1. Complete Tuesday’s Practice exam (or start it if student wasn’t there)
    2. Research GED questions
    3. Prepare for Quiz on Thursday

  • Science practice exam

    1. Review and Quiz on Ecology
    2. Science practice test. Mark where you see words we’ve studied.

  • Conference - Zach

  • The Tempest

    Read The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2. Identify important events and place them on a timeline, utilize footnotes

  • Zach absent - personal business

  • Century Timelines

    Students construct timeines of a century per table. Students become "experts" on their century and present to class

  • Timelines and

    Students think of as many events as they can and we put them all on a timeline on a program online.
    Students read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

  • Jeopardy and Debate day

    Students play a jeopardy game with science vocabulary as their "exam" over all that we have studied
    Students create sides for a debate, given prompts, they have time to formulate and present points.