Baruch Prep College Now EL5 Fall '05

Finding Your Voice

Schedule | Forums | Web Publishing | Research Lessons | Student Work | Worksheet-Readings for Single-Sex School Debate |

|CareerBuilder.com |CareersAndColleges.com | Common Application |Tips on College Essay Writing | 3-Step Instruction to Writing a College Essay |SAT Lessons|

Other components of the course:

  1. Conferences – 1 hour per week for 3 students per week  beginning Mon 10/25 and continuing for the remainder of the semester
  2. Introduce the SAT exam as the semester progresses using The Official SAT Guide: for the new SAT

Calendar for October 2005

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
            1
2 3 4 5

 Instructional Planning

6

Session 1 :

Why I Write – Intro / Motivation

7 8
9 10 11

Session 2:

On Television and its Impact on Learning

12

Instructional Planning

13

No Class

14 15
16 17 18

Session 3

On Television and its Impact on Learning

19

Instructional Planning

20

Session 4

Research

On Television and its Impact on Learning

21 22
23 24

Individual Conference

25

Session 5

On Television and its Impact on Learning

26

Instructional Planning

27

Session 6
Individual Trip to Baruch for ID

Directions

28 29
30 31          
Holidays and observances: 4: Rosh Hashana (Jewish), 5: Ramadan begins (Islamic), 10: Columbus Day, 13: Yom Kippur (Jewish), 24: Last day of Sukkot (Jewish), 30: Lailat Ul Qadr (Islamic), 31: Halloween

Calendar for November 2005

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    1

Session 7

 

2

Instructional Planning

3

Session 8

SAT and Regents connection – how can we use the strategies of an argument essay in these two exams

 

4 5
6 7

Individual Conference

8(Election Day)

No Class

9

Instructional Planning

10

Session 9:

SAT and Regents connection – how can we use the strategies of an argument essay in these two exams

11 12
13 14

Individual Conference

15

Session 10

Research Unit

16

Instructional Planning

17

Session 11

Research Unit

Visit to Baruch College

18 19
20 21

Individual Conference

22

Session 12

Research Unit

23 24

No Class

25 26
27 28

Individual Conference

29

Session 13

Research Unit

30

Instructional Planning

     
Holidays and observances: 4: Eid-al-Fitr (Islamic), 11: Veterans Day, 24: Thanksgiving Day

Calendar for December 2005

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1

Session 14

Research Unit

2 3
4 5

Individual Conference

6

Session 15

Research Unit

7

Instructional Planning

8

Session 16

Research Unit

9 10
11 12

Individual Conference

13

Session 17

Museum Visit

14

Instructional Planning

15

Session 18

  • Comparison / Contrast Essay Smokers vs. runner

  • Flannery O’Connor –

  • Review skills for Task 3 and 4 of the English Regents

  • Review how to use literature in the SAT essay

 

16 17
18 19

Individual Conference

20

Session 19

  • Comparison / Contrast Essay Smokers vs. runner

  • Flannery O’Connor –

  • Review skills for Task 3 and 4 of the English Regents

  • Review how to use literature in the SAT essay

 

21

 

22

No Class

23 24
25 26 27

No Class

28 29

No Class

30 31
Holidays and observances: 25: Christmas Day (Christian), 26: First day of Chanukah (Jewish), 26: 'Christmas Day' observed (Christian)

Calendar for January 2006

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2

Individual Conference

3

Session 20
(2nd visit to the museum should be completed by today)

  • Comparison / Contrast Essay Smokers vs. runner

  • Flannery O’Connor –

  • Review skills for Task 3 and 4 of the English Regents

  • Review how to use literature in the SAT essay

 

4

Instructional Planning

5

Session 21
(Post Reflective Writing based on museum visits in the Forum)

  • Comparison / Contrast Essay Smokers vs. runner

  • Flannery O’Connor –

  • Review skills for Task 3 and 4 of the English Regents

  • Review how to use literature in the SAT essay

 

6 7
8 9

Individual Conference

10

Session 22

  • Comparison / Contrast Essay Smokers vs. runner

  • Flannery O’Connor –

  • Review skills for Task 3 and 4 of the English Regents

  • Review how to use literature in the SAT essay

 

11

Instructional Planning

12

Session 23
(Last Session)s

  • Reflection

  • Sharing digital Portfolio (websites)

  • Select one best writing for print publication

 Portfolio (website) will include:

  • Independent Argument Paper (1)

  • Research Work

  •  Independent Comparison and Contrast Essay (1)

  • Flannery O’Connor Comparison and Contrast (1)

  • Museum Reflection Papers (2)

  • Semester Reflection (1)

 

13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31        
Holidays and observances: 1: New Year's Day, 2: Last day of Chanukah (Jewish), 2: 'New Year's Day' observed, 10: Eid-al-Adha (Islamic), 16: Martin Luther King Day, 31: Muharramn/New Year (Islamic)