Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson is a historical novel with many awards as a young adult book. It takes the reader back to the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia. Events are seen through the eyes of Mattie Cook, who lives with her widowed mother and her grandfather above the coffee shop which is their business. When the fever breaks out, it turns the city and Mattie’s world upside down. This is a novel that is […]
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ESL 235 Practice Final
<<ESL 235 annotated practice final>> <<ESL 235 Practice Final>> This is the Practice Final I created for Level 3 Integrated Skills this semester. It’s based on older finals that incorporated more reading, because as a department we decided that (only) writing finals may not be the best assessment of integrated skills. I gave them another practice final with added writing practice to do as homework before this, and then they had an entire class time […]
ESL 235 Homework Practice for Final
<<ESL 235 Homework Practice Final>> This is an assignment I just made, so haven’t tried yet (feel free to suggest improvements). The integrated skill finals will include more reading this semester, so I made up a practice that involved a similar format with a reading and questions, but added some extra writing work. Even though they won’t have (?) a writing task on the final, I thought it’d be good for them to practice, and […]
Learning a Second Language Article with Questions
After students have been introduced to annotating articles with highlighting, asking questions, and writing symbols and comments, this I used in my upper beginning class to reinforce those skills. This reinforces different ways they can increase their own styles of learning the new language. Their comments were extremely positive about what they might try after having read this. >>Learning a Second Language Article<< Annie
Reading Demonstration – comprehension and vocabulary in context
Reading Demonstration – Importance of Context in Comprehension This reading demonstration was taken from Dimensions of Literacy, by Stephen B. Kucer (page. 142, Table 6.2). The purpose of the exercise is to help students examine their own reading process and strategies used to gain meaning. Use this as an opportunity to discuss and share out reading strategies used by your students and share you own. Distribute the reading to students asking them to […]
ESL Reading/Composition Syllabus
<<ESL 116B Syllabus>> A syllabus for an advanced ESL reading/writing class (using accelerated methodologies). L Talley