Isabel CO #3

 Hecht House 2:00-2:50

05/11/2022

Wednesday Listening Class

The teacher began the class by reviewing the vocabulary quiz from the previous lesson. The quiz contained words, such as "convey," "organism," "bioluminescence," "thermal vents," "photosynthesis," and "chemotroph." I was surprised by how advanced the vocabulary was as I did not know the meaning of some of the words (like chemotroph). The teacher then began to introduce a new subject area. He asked the class if they knew what the word "hoax" meant. They did not. He then proceeded to search the definition for the class using "The Learner's Dictionary" (recently bought by Britannica); it is a website that provides definitions that are easy to understand. Once he clarified that the entire class knew what a hoax was, he played a podcast reporting about a fake bomb threat (Hawaii False Alarm). He then broke the class into small groups to discuss what they had heard. He asked the class specifically to focus on the mass hysteria caused by the event. As the students recapped amongst themselves, the teacher walked around taking notes about each individual discussion. He then asked the class to verbalize the similarities between the podcast and another piece of media they had looked at previously called "The War of Worlds." Once they finished comparing, the teacher introduced an excerpt on the LA Riots to the class. He then had the students find a partner to fill in a crossword puzzle of the new vocabulary they learned from the excerpt, such as "nightmarish," "arson," "deploy," "convicted," "riot," "infamy," and "protocol." The teacher reviewed the activity with the students by calling on them to pronounce the answer. If the students struggled with pronunciation, he wrote it on the board and explained the rules to them until they got it. 

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