11th Grade Ib English Language And Literature.docx

Arthur Braga –Assignment Drop In 11th Grade IB English Language and Literature – Teacher - Richard Young. The teacher began the lesson by playing a quick revision game in which he asked the students to stand up. If they were able to say a stylistic device (e.g. hyperbole, euphemism, metaphor) then the student could sit down. The second activity was check students homework. In this homework, the students had to identify different stylistic devices from the text (The Things They Carried) and then explain what their significance and how its usage effects the audience. The students were then placed in groups of 3 or 4 in which they had to discuss one of the chapters of reading which had been assigned for homework. The teacher had placed the questions on a PowerPoint. The students answered the questions and took notes. The teacher monitored and facilitated. After 20 minutes, the teacher led a whole class discussion on the texts and wrote some of the key words or phrases on the white board. At the end of the class the teacher ask the students to pick a passage from the text in which they would have to perform in front of the class in the next class.

7th Grade Mathematics - Teacher – Paula Machado. The teacher began with a warm up writing down on the board three one step inequalities. After five minutes, she asked who was able to solve them on the board. Many students raised their hands and almost everybody wants to participate. She selected three and they were able to solve all the inequalities. After that she asked the students to open the book on page 116 and read the objectives of the lesson and the part “Check the skills you’ll need”. She went over to how to solve two step inequalities and did several examples. In each one she was able to explain the main idea and the common mistakes that students used to do. At the end of the class, she wrote three more new inequalities on board and another group of students was selected and once again they had no problem to find the correct answer. 7th Grade World History – Teacher Paul Strootman Paul began showing his students a twelve minutes video about the spread of Islam. At the end the teacher reinforce some main aspects that the students should know about the topic like: -Relate the spread of Islam to historical events and process of historical changes -Trace the spread of Islam chronologically and regionally -Evaluate the importance of shifts in economic and political power and accompanied the spread of the Islam. -Identify and locate regions using a map. After that students discussed and asked him a lot of questions about economic, political and religious aspects. It was very difficult some religious and moral issues ignited the debate but the teacher was able to calm the waters by the end of class. The debate would continue in the next lesson because there was still much to be discussed.