http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=a29599fc31ac4a7291d2f9bd67abf6bc
Lesson plan for Wednesday, 9/28/11
Material that you can use to prepare in advance for my free ESL classes at Hartley House. In addition, if you are absent, you can see what you missed and try to keep up with the class.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Death Penalty?
http://www.slate.com/id/2304221/
Troy Davis was executed on 09-21-11. His case and the death penalty could be a class topic that we could explore in class. It would also bring up the the issue of how much can "eyewitness testimony" really be trusted?
Troy Davis was executed on 09-21-11. His case and the death penalty could be a class topic that we could explore in class. It would also bring up the the issue of how much can "eyewitness testimony" really be trusted?
Thursday, September 22, 2011
China Makes Clones Of Super-Swine That Survived ’08 Quake
China Makes Clones Of Super-Swine That Survived '08 Quake
Sent from Read It Later.
What You Eat Affects Your Gene... (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
What You Eat Affects Your Genes: RNA from Rice Can Survive Digestion and Alter Gene Expression
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/09/21/what-you-eat-affects-your-genes-rna-from-rice-can-survive-digestion-and-alter-gene-expression/
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Please vote: Smoking
http://www.forandagainst.com/Smoking_Should_Be_Illegal
http://www.forandagainst.com/Smoking_Should_Be_Banned_In_Public_Places
You will need to register with a free account with forandagainst.com in order to vote
http://www.forandagainst.com/Smoking_Should_Be_Banned_In_Public_Places
You will need to register with a free account with forandagainst.com in order to vote
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Governments Have Always Lied (squidoo.com)
Governments Have Always Lied
http://www.squidoo.com/us-government-lied-us-into-a-war
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
9-14-11 "Reichstag Fire" Material
http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookmarks/8oYGSGhOTw
This is my folder of material for tomorrow's lesson. We will not use all of this material of course....But I read all and got ideas from here.
See especially "Reichstag Fire" (http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag_fire.html)
See other lessons I am planning here: http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookmarks/1glZ83UO65
This is my folder of material for tomorrow's lesson. We will not use all of this material of course....But I read all and got ideas from here.
See especially "Reichstag Fire" (http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag_fire.html)
See other lessons I am planning here: http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookmarks/1glZ83UO65
Readability
This is a great "add-on" if you use Friefox as a browser on your computer. I use this in class to take away the advertisements in web pages to make reading easier.
Get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/
Get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/
Terror Storm Part 1/12
Here is part 1 of 12 of Terror Storm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dYWP9AOGBo
and here is "Terror Storm" part 2 of 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkf3kXF8Dzs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dYWP9AOGBo
and here is "Terror Storm" part 2 of 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkf3kXF8Dzs&feature=related
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Vocabulary blog
http://eslwords.blogspot.com/
That is for the vocabulary blog. If you exactly only want the spreadsheet, see here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArH0k9UENVV2dElOY2pLSHg3dXdmWkFlQUhXT0VyM3c&hl=en_US
And here is the link for the Multiple Intelligences Inventory we are working on in class: http://surfaquarium.com/MI/inventory.htm
That is for the vocabulary blog. If you exactly only want the spreadsheet, see here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArH0k9UENVV2dElOY2pLSHg3dXdmWkFlQUhXT0VyM3c&hl=en_US
And here is the link for the Multiple Intelligences Inventory we are working on in class: http://surfaquarium.com/MI/inventory.htm
On the 10th Anniversary of 9/1... (philipbrennan.net)
On the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, We still do not have the Truth.
http://www.philipbrennan.net/2011/09/11/on-the-10th-anniversary-of-911-we-still-do-not-have-the-truth/
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
The 23 Biggest 9/11 Coincidenc... (trutv.com)
The 23 Biggest 9/11 Coincidences
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/911-10yrs/part-1.html
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Friday, September 9, 2011
9/9/11 Homework
1) Please see the "(Possible) Units for Class" links under my photo on the right and select 3 from the 17 that are most interesting to you.
2) Please complete the online "needs assessment" to help Andy know what you want to learn in class.
See here
2) Please complete the online "needs assessment" to help Andy know what you want to learn in class.
See here
My Bookmarks in folders
http://share.xmarks.com/folder/bookmarks/peJpTppFng
This link will show you my bookmarks of material for the class organaized in folders. This is NOT the RSS feed link. See below for that.
This link will show you my bookmarks of material for the class organaized in folders. This is NOT the RSS feed link. See below for that.
Subscribe to my RSS feed
http://share.xmarks.com/folder/rss/peJpTppFng
The above link lets you subscribe to my bookmarks for the class material. If you subscribe to the RSS feed to your Google reader, then when I add new articles you will get an email showing you the new links. In this way you can preview the articles to see which ones might be interesting to you. And if you see any articles that you find are interesting, please email the links to me :)
The above link lets you subscribe to my bookmarks for the class material. If you subscribe to the RSS feed to your Google reader, then when I add new articles you will get an email showing you the new links. In this way you can preview the articles to see which ones might be interesting to you. And if you see any articles that you find are interesting, please email the links to me :)
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