1. Orientation to the course
2. Student Information Sheet 
3. Student Interviews 
4. Resources
• Christine's Links to Listening Resources 
• Breaking News English 
• NPR (National Public Radio)
5.  News Story 1: Shoppers in Venezuela to be fingerprinted (August 25, 2014) 

1. Register for a free Google account.
2. Bring your mobile devices (iPad/tablet, smartphone) to class! 
3. Read the article (handout).

1. Complete Student Interviews. 
2. Put links into students' own mobile devices:
• Engrade (email sent to SMC account with password) 
• IEP Wiki for Current Events-- http://iep-rdg-writ.pbworks.com/  
• Google doc:  Current Events News Log
3. News Story 1: Shoppers in Venezuela to be fingerprinted (August 25, 2014)--activities

1. Handout exercise: Submit
• Word Search: Use Just-the-Word for collocations.
  Click Combinations and put the word in the box. Then
  click on 3 of the noun combinations. Copy the sentences.
2. Listen to 3 news events of your choice. Use
   Christine's Links to Listening Resources > News. Use the
   links for VOA, Breaking News English, NPR, or TED. 
   Enter the information about the news events in the Current Events News Log on Google Drive. 
3. Review the article about Food Shortages in Venezuela for a quiz on meaning and vocabulary.
   

1. Logging into Canvas
2. Checking on SMC email, Engrade, homework (Google Doc, JTW)
3. Quiz on Shoppers in Venezuela to be fingerprinted 
4. Oral Summaries of 3 news events, using notes (1 min.)--Online Stopwatch 
5. Academic Skills -- Note-taking Strategies, Standard Symbols & Abbreviations, Discourse Cues
6. News Story 2: Ice bucket challenge could be good for charities (Level 4)

1. Review Note-taking Strategies for a QUIZ. (T/F, MC, fill-in-the blank).
2. Handout:
• Matching exercise for Breaking News English: Ice bucket challenge could be good for charities
3. Online:
• One of these exercises for the Ice Bucket Challenge story:
• Sentence Jumble
• Missing Words
• No letters
• Gap-Fill
• Consonants
• Missing Letters
• Initals Only
• Text Jumble - 15
• Text Jumble - 24
• No Spaces
• 3 different speeds 

Thursday,

9/4/2014

1. Canvas: Check grades.
2. iPads/smartphones: Add dictionary apps.
3. Quiz: Note-taking Strategies
4. HW: Ice bucket challenge could be good for charities
5. Note-taking: Standard Symbols & Abbreviations
6. News: Hello Kitty is a girl, not a cat  

1. Review Standard Symbols & Abbreviations for a QUIZ.
2. Breaking News English article "Hello Kitty":
3. Current Events News Log, WEEK 3--Listening

• Take notes on 2 news events using the Cornell Method; bring your notes to class.
• On Google Drive, write a summary for each news event. 

Tuesday,

9/9/2014