Pomerleau

Sub Plans for Monday, October 1, 2007

Staff meeting – 7:30 in the Round House

 

Please pick up all of my materials, including the handouts for Advisory and take notes on what we are supposed to do with our advisory classes this week on Wednesday.

 

lunes:  Planning Period  2nd 

EVEN CLASSES – same plan  for 4th & 6th

 

martes:  Planning Period  1st

ODD CLASSES – same plan  for 3rd,  5th  & 7th

 

Objectives:  In my classes we have been listening to the music of Juanes, a Colombian singer, and also talking about places of interest in the community.  We are watching the movie, “María Full of Grace” because it will give us a good basis for conversation on the difference between communities in Colombia and here in the U.S., it will also allow us to continue the discussion of the huge issue of drug trafficking, which we have began when listening to the music of Juanes.  Finally, the movie is in Spanish, with English subtitles, which will give the students the opportunity to listen to authentic Spanish, while still being able to understand the plot of the movie.  On Friday, all of the classes watched the first part of the video.  I asked the sub to make note of how far each class got in the video for each class.  Here are the instructions that I gave to the sub on Friday for showing the video in each class.  They should be the same for you, except, the sub may have left the DVD on top of my desk.

 

Plans given to sub on Friday – also good for continuation on Monday:

 

1.  Please ask any students who have not already done so to turn in their permission slips.  Please mark off the names of the students who have turned in slips on each class list and keep the permission slips separated by class period. 

 

2.  Any students who do not have a permission slip will go to the Media Center to create a PowerPoint Presentation on Colombia, including information on:  the geographical location / government / society / and specially focusing on the issue of illegal drug trafficking and its effect on the economy and the social conditions in the country.  Please keep a list of these students for me so that I can have them turn in their projects to me next week.  These students should check in with Lana Fain in the Media Center before going to work on their projects.  She will keep a list of them.

 

3.  Students will not e required to take notes on the movie, but they should be able to remember the names of the main characters and be able to give a brief synopsis of the plot.  They should also be familiar enough with the events of the movie to be able to discuss them in class next week.

 

4.  The video “María Full of Grace” is in the right hand drawer of my teacher desk in the corner of room W-106.  The video may either be shown on the DVD player under the TV set in the AV cupboard.  Put the TV on Input 2 and then set the DVD player to DVD (instead of VHS).  When you push play, it should begin showing on the TV, but you may have to adjust the volume.

 

5.  I think that you could also show it through the DVD player on the computer and then project it onto the screen.  This would be better for the students if you can get it to work. 

a.  Log on to the computer using my username:  amron    and my password:  This4now.

b.  Put the DVD in the computer DVD drive

c.  This should upen up Windown Media Player and allow you to start showing the movie.

d.  To turn on the projector, simply press the on switch, located on the top of the projector.

e.  You may need to adjust the focus.

f.  Be sure that the speakers for the computer are turned on (using the knobs on the front of the speaker on the right side – again – volume adjustment may be necessary.

g.  Please keep track of exactly where you get to with each class in the movie and write it onto the lesson plan for Monday that is also sitting on my desk.  I will be gone to a training on Monday, so will also have a sub on that day.  That sub will need to know where to start the DVD in each class.

h.   Also, please leave these instructions on how to show the DVD for my sub on Monday.  I will refer to them in my plans for him/her.

i.  Please leave the DVD in the case on top of my desk with the sub plans for Monday.

j.  Also, please leave all of the seating charts and the class attendance lists (for checking off permission slips) on top of the desk with the Monday sub plans.

 

Thank you very much for subbing for my classes today.  If you have any trouble, just make note of the troublemakers on my seating chart (let them know that you are doing that) and I will definitely handle things when I return on Tuesday and Wednesday.  If you have too much trouble with any particular students – just send them to the assistant principal’s office in the West Wing – Michael James -  with a note.

 

~Norma Pomerleau