Lesson Title: How to view the eclipse safely
Date of Class: 8/17/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia
Module: Eclipse
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): gewd

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 39

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):

We dictated some interesting sentences about viewing safety for the eclipse next week. After three weeks of talking about the eclipse, I think learners were still interested and not bothered! This is in part due to the interesting lessons we’ve delivered, like today’s. Next we did two round robins with “Do you have eclipse sunglasses?” and “Take a pair of eclipse glasses!” because MAUREEN BOUGHT GLASSES FOR EVERYONE! Big cheers to that. Not at lot of people already had them, and I know they’re running low now, so that was fun. We ended with a spelling game with scrabble tiles; after Maureen switched two learners, we felt we had very evenly matched teams and it was an exceptionally good game today. Julia felt more involved after Maureen set her up as a coach/motivator for one team, and I helped the other. Great class full of laughter and teamwork!

Lesson Title: “that hits the spot”
Date of Class: 8/15/17
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 6-7:30
MC: Cecilia
DJ: Ramin
Assistants: None
Module: In the neighborhood
How Many Learners: 2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): we need to cut out more loyalty cards.

Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5
Total Score: 32
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Cecilia had a great energy today which affected the learners as well. We had some side conversations about different restaurants around Portland. The levels of the group allowed us to talk about cultural things in Portland.

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Lesson Title: Restocking the Fridge
Date of Class: 8/22/2017
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 6:00PM
MC: Robert
DJ: Cecilia
Assistants: Matthew
Module: In the Neighborhood
How Many Learners: 6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): We could probably use a few more pencils.

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5

Total Score: 31

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We started the lesson with a few new learners, and a good number. We began with the alphabet, and then transitioned to Yell and Spell, and then worked on dictating the title of the lesson. We did a listen and do with directions- one of the learners brought out a compass – and moved on to complicated dictated conversations, which we used as an extended Round Robin. Another learner joined us at this point. We did a listen and point with intersections, and then listen and do with neighborhood actions. We finished off with a few more round robins, both with nouns and a dictated conversation.

Lesson Title: “Let’s explore Portland”
Date of Class: 8/22/2017
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Ramin
DJ: Ramin
Assistants: Judy, Zeny
Module: In the Neighborhood
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): more loyalty cards need to be cut out.

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =5
Total Score: 39
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Great class. I used a new activity to challenge the learners. It was a word search document about Portland and what’s famous in Portland. The first 3 winners got prizes (Cookies) but it was sweet to see everyone share the cookies and enjoy the collective work rather than the individual achievements.

Lesson Title: “restocking the fridge”
Date of Class: 8/29/17
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 2 pm-3:30 pm
MC: Robert Page
DJ: Ramin
Assistants: Judy
Module: In the neighborhood
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): ok!

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 3
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 2

Total Score: 26

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Robert’s class was fun. He brought a game like activity where learners had to find two matching words. Robert’s dictation had a singular third person pronoun with future tense contraction such as “it’ll” it was confusing for many learners, the pronunciation as well as writing of it was complicated and something new for the learners so it was useful to be exposed that grammatical aspect for the first time.

Lesson Title: Nervous hippos, stoic crocodiles, and matter-of-fact baboons
Date of Class: 8/31/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia, Matthew
Module: Eclipse
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need to print more evaluation sheets!!! All gone :(

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7

Total Score: 38

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): I lied last week when I called my lesson our final time talking about the eclipse, whoops! But Maureen had fun information for folks today. We dictated some sentences today with lots of animal names, and words like “stoic”. Then some round robins with pictures of animals from these sentences. Then we did a seek & find with an interesting article on animals in the eclipse and ended with our favorite scrabble spelling game. Got some good feedback from Matthew at the end of class on how things he’s seen differently at other places during his shadowing, and I think we’re both looking forward to utilizing that info in the following weeks. Class atmosphere was great as usual, even with some new folks in the mix today. Good, solid class!

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Lesson Title: My Favorite Recipe
Date of Class: 9/5/17
Day of Class: Tuesday
Time of Class: 2:00pm
MC: Lexy Dillon
DJ: Robert Page
Assistants: n/a
Module: My Favorite Recipe
How Many Learners: 9
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 35

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Great class! Lexy did a lesson centered around baking cookies. She did a dictation about baking, listen and point with a recipe, brought in all of the ingredients, and even surprised the class with cookies. Great turnout and everyone was really involved.

(continued from above post from 9/7/17)

Class was very intimate as only two learners showed. This is the transition week where the class meeting time has changed from 2pm to noon. This will be better for some learners, but not for all, so we’ll see. There was a great turnout in the Tuesday class at RW this week, so it might have been an off day. This class was interesting as all of us are concerned about the fire burning in the Gorge. With this size class, Ashlyn and I were able to work one-on-one with our learners and really explain each sentence checking for comprehension and looking at pictures, videos and maps on our phones. Ashlyn included in her lesson a website where learners could plug in their zip code to get an air quality rating for where they lived.
One of the dictated sentences was about the teen who started the fire, so we could gauge their reactions to this and their opinions about this crime. One student shared photos with us of her family in the Gorge at Multnomah Falls. She expressed remorse for the burned areas. This makes me feel sad, but also gives me a unique satisfaction that she loves this area too, even as a fairly new arrival, and considers this place her home.