Learning Strategies
Period 2
Semester 2
Hello! Welcome to the course webpage for GLE. I encourage you to take advantage of this excellent resource, as I will post assigned work, important dates and other information pertaining to the course.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Please get your Course Information Sheet signed and returned by Friday, February 6th.
- Please get your Student and Parent Information Sheet signed and returned by Friday, February 6th.
- Don't forget to register for Remind.
- Please find a book for silent reading on Tuesdays.
- Progress reports will be sent home on Tuesday, March 3rd. Parent-teacher interviews are on Wednesday, March 4th.
COURSE WORK
Bellwork
Every class begins with bellwork, a worksheet with questions to develop basic numeracy skills. Bellwork will include topics such as counting money, working with per cents, calculating earnings, measures of central tendancy, budgeting, operations with fractions, estimation, measurement, etc.
Small In-Class Assignments and Activities
1. Sum Up Your Semester (February 3rd)
2. 5W1H Federal Employee Formally Reprimanded for Farting at Work (February 4th)
3. Sentence Challenge #1 (February 5th)
4. YouTube Writing Exercise #1: What Tattoos Really Say About You (February 9th)
5. 5W1H Windsor Police Make Arrest in Murder of Windsor Woman (February 11th)
6. Course Selection Kahoot #1 (February 12th)
7. YouTube Writing Exercise #2: Teen Fired For Complaining on Facebook her job is Boring (February 17th)
8. Sentence Challenge #2 (February 18th)
9. Learning Strategies Week 3 Reflection (February 20th)
10. YouTube Writing Exercise #3: Job vs. Career (February 23rd)
11. Sentence Challenge #3 (February 28th)
12. YouTube Writing Exercises #4: Cardboard Stories Homeless (March 2nd)
13. Sentence Challenge #4: Exaggerations (March 3rd)
14. OSSLT Prep for Multiple Choice (March 4th)
15. Exaggerations (March 5th)
16. 5W1H White Woman Sues Sperm Bank (March 6th)
ORGANIZATION DAY MARCH 6TH
17. YouTube Writing Exercise #5: Walking While Texting (March 9th)
18. Credit Card Brainstorm and Charge It Assignment (March 10th)
19. Windsor Essex Health Unit Presentation: Stress Management and Healthy Eating (March 12th)
20. YouTube Writing Exercise #6: Ally's F (March 23rd)
21. OSSLT Prep (March 24th)
22. Credit Report Multiple Choice Assignment (March 25th)
23. YouTube Writing Exercise #7: Children of Fallen Canadian Forces Members Get Scholarships (March 30th)
24. YouTube Writing Exercise #8: Cyberbullying Prevention Commercial (April 7th)
25. What Would You Do? Group Assignment (April 9th)
26. YouTube Writing Exersie #9: The Mom Who Shopped Her Family Broke (April 13th)
27. YouTube Writing Exercise #10: The Fiscal Cliff (April 20th)
28. YouTube Writing Exercise #11: Breaking Bad (April 28th)
29. YouTube Writing Exercise #12: Experience the Power of the Book Book (May 4th)
30. Reading Pie Charts (May 7th)
31. YouTube Writing Exercise #13: True Friends Never Forget (May 11th)
32. Gifted Hands Research Template (May 12th)
33. Practical Math Skills: Transportation Math (May 19th)
Class Notes
1. Five Ways to Prepare for a Presentation
2. Organizing School Work and Assignments
3. Getting Along with Your Teachers
4. Multiple Choice Tests
5. How to Make Homework Less Work
6. Five Ways to Make Online Research Easier
7. Note Taking
8. Studying For Tests
Final Summative Evaluations
Instructions for the FSE were distributed on Monday, May 25th. Students will be given 12 periods of class time to work on this FSE. During this time students should also begin preparing for their other final exams. Presentations will begin on Wednesday, June 10th.
