Comments+for+Katie+H.+&+Melissa

=Comments for Katie:= Hi Katie, It looks like you have a great unit planned. I think the students will learn a lot! I would like to hear more about "Can you believe it!" Do the students enjoy it? It sounds like a fun thing to do, especially on Friday's. I'm also curious what level your students are at. Are they all over the place or does your school separate them in some way according to their level? Will you need to differentiate your lessons?

My only suggestion is that I don't see a "tournament". Maybe you have one and I just missed it, I will double check.

I noticed that you do DOL every day. We do too! I like the DOL and I think that it helps the students with their writing and grammar quite a bit. I also like that every day we have to make the first letter of the sentence a capital and end every sentence with a period, that way I can call on the most basic students and they are able to participate. user:lucasme2

=Comments for Melissa:= Hey Melissa, Your "Time for Change" lesson plan looks great! It's good to see that you aren't scared to handle such deep issues with the ELL students. They are such important topics and the students definitely need to know how to talk about them! I love how you combined music with free speech in your "Music Offends" unit plan. I never really realized how the two go hand in hand! And it's great that your tournament is the 5 paragraph essay. My ELL mentor teacher constantly talks about how students (even American students) do not get enough practice doing this. user:KathrynHin