READING
Class Work
- Unit 2a How to succeed? Get more sleep audio
- Unit 2b Video lesson
Online Assignment:
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Look for an article on a recent investigation in English news
- Read the article and type a 5-8 sentence summary of it’s contents.
- Post your writing in the reply section of the blog with a link to the article.
WRITING
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT:
- Read the linked article here
- Imagine that you ARE a Flat Earth believer and gather information online to support your idea
- Write a thesis statement AND make an outline of your argument (as shown in the text Page 41-42).
- Research and find three reasons people believe that the Earth is flat.
- Use those three reasons to make a thesis statement and an outline with “details and evidence”
- Type and print the outline
- Due 3/6
Free writing Software
- Smartphone application
- Computer application
JOURNALS
- 2/27: What are you passionate about?
- 2/28 Use google (or your memory) and choose a quotation that inspires you (in your language is ok, but translate it for me) and explore what it means to you.
- 3/1: How do you manage stress? Share what’s worked for you and what hasn’t
- 3/2 What is the best advice your parent/s or mentor ever gave you?
- 3/3 Write a thank you letter to someone. It is up to you whether you submit it or not.
My favorite poem in text and in film
- Extra Credit 1 (online participation): Write a 3 paragraph essay that details the three components of rhetoric. Use the P.I.E. model as a map for your essay.
GRAMMAR
- Unit 2: Present Progressive
- Unit 2.3 Stative verbs
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
- Complete the grammar practice sheets handed out during class.
- Present them to me in class on Friday for a participation grade.
- It is ok to work together, use your textbooks, or the internet
- Present them to me in class on Friday for a participation grade.
Optional Online Practice
Online listening here
Listening and Speaking
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EXTRA CREDIT: Watch Less stuff, more happiness
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Complete the 4 questions in the “think” section of the webpage in your notebook.
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Show me the questions in class on 3/3
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- Unit 2a
- Complete vocabulary page 147 for class on 3/2
- 2/28 assignment: Listen to the breaking news english article on fasting
BEGINNER SPEAKING LISTENING GRAMMAR
- This week we will be reviewing unit 1a-d and having a unit test
- OPTIONAL ONLINE REVIEW
ESL Student Resources 
Sources: New travel ban will exempt existing visa holders.
There is not any problem for legal person who lives the United States. And the news said ” President Donald Trump’s new travel ban will exclude legal permanent residents and visa holders from the ban entirely”. It is going to be safe who has a green card and also who has already visa on their passport. The new order include language prioritizing the refugee claims of certain religious minorities. And document has not been finished and is still can change.
CNN news
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Thanks for sharing that source Mags. It is a very important issue in our country now. Does it make you afraid to visit home because of the possibility our new government will try to keep you from reentering the country?
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Dreamers arrested moments after speaking out against out deportation at a NEWS Conference.
Daniela Vargas was arrest after leaving a news conference where she spoke about her fears. A friend was driving Daniela Vargas, away when they pulled over by US Immigration and ICE in Jackson, Mississippi. about two week ago, ICE agents arrested Vargas’s father and brother at home. she was found hiding in a closet, but let go because she had a pending DACA renewal application. A federal immigration judge will decide whether Vargas is eligible for any type of relief, ICE official said. at the news conferences, Vargas said that after the arrest of her father and brother, she was planning to move out of the state and attend college to become a math professor.
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Actually I am not afraid of anything because I have a country and also family that’s enough for be happy:) But of course I will be upset .
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This news was called “Fast food,Fast headaches”.It is about the fast food will make people to get headaches easily. In the news, the writer used a real example,Ms H,a 40 years old patient. First time, she though that she got a headache because worked for a long time everyday.She had some medicines but she found that these were wrong medicines. Finally,she found that fast food was the main problem and explained why fast food made she headache easily.
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