Friday Freebie!

Hello everyone,
It is Friday and time for a freebie!

Are you ready for a fun and free Venn Diagram with a bit of a twist?  Well here you go!
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2 Square Venn Diagram - Graphic Organizer
Students use this 2 squared graphic organizer to respond to literature. Compare and contrast 2 characters in a story, 2 different settings, or 2 events. Use this great Venn Diagram before, during and after reading to solidify student comprehension

Graphic organizers are great group or individual work activities as a response to literature during independent reading, interactive
reading, or shared reading.

Graphic Organizers help students develop higher level thinking skills and promote creativity. They are handy tools for classroom use that guide students through the process of organizing information. Graphic organizers make logic out of language and help students summarize and interpret text. Graphic Organizers are excellent tools that promote high-level active thinking in the classroom.

Critical Thinking and Active Learning materials for:

-Reading Comprehension
-Math
-Social Studies
-Science
-Art
-Conflict Resolution

SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS:
Graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to second language learners. The Venn Diagram can change complex language into language that is comprehensible. This is a perfect visual tool that helps ELLs and all students understand and organize information.

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Tuesday Tongue Twisters!

Hello everyone,

It is time again for Tuesday's Tongue Twisters!  Pronunciation can be a

challenge for second language learners.  A fun lesson to increase accuracy is to practice an assortment of tongue twisters.  Tongue Twisters lower the affective filter of English language learners and kids of all ages love to practice the sing-songy fun of a great tongue twisters.

Easy:

• Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
• Fat frogs flying past fast.

Medium:

• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
• Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.

Hard:

• One-one was a race horse.   Two-two was one too.  One-one won one race.  Two-two won one too.
• Betty better butter Brad's bead.

Tongue twisters are fun and engaging for young English learners.  They are also culturally significant and native speakers of English are always willing to join in the fun of this challenging practice.




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The Harry Bridges Project - Lessons

http://theharrybridgesproject.org/lessons.html

These lessons have been designed, in consultation with high school teachers, for use in standard U.S. History, English, and Advanced Placement courses. For the teacher, they are clear and easy to follow. They conform to California Academic Standards, but are open to teachers' ideas and variations. They will encourage lively discussions and thoughtful essays. The Plans are designed to empower students to 1) consider their own and societies’ attitudes and assumptions to issues that affect their lives 2) consider their own moral ethics and the values of America and 3) question their place in society, their rights as they enter the workforce, and their hopes for the future.

The Teacher's Edition includes two or three pages of "Worksheets" and "Homework Sheets" to be printed and handed out to your students. Below the description of each Plan is the Student Resources link which has the live links for your students' research. The plans are designed for either 2 class periods and one homework assignment or 3 class periods and two homework assignments.

1) Collective Bargaining

Teacher's Editions –

Collective Bargaining (CA English Standards)

Collective Bargaining (CA History and Social Science Standards)

Students will learn some basic principles of collective bargaining by taking part in a simulated negotiation. As union and management representatives of a hospital, they will prepare their positions and then meet face to face with the “other side.” They will then consider the importance of these kinds of skills in their daily lives.

Collective Bargaining (Student Resources)

2) Workers' Rights

Teacher's Editions –

Workers' Rights (CA English Standards)

Workers' Rights (CA History and Social Science Standards)

Investigate the passage of laws that gave rise to the American labor movement, consider the role of the government and of unions in protecting your rights, and discover how much or little you know about your rights in preparation for going out into the workforce.

Workers' Rights (Student Resources)

The NLRB Takes Portland Language School to Task for its Anti-Union Activities

excerpts from:

http://nwlaborpress.org/2010/1105/11-5-10AFT.html

November 5, 2010 Volume 111 Number 21

Teacher Patricia Raclot — who was terminated earlier this year after she supported a unionizing campaign — last month turned down an offer of two years salary if she would drop her legal case and give up her right to get her job back.

In the four-day trial that followed, a federal administrative law judge heard evidence that the school terminated Raclot for her pro-union activity, and that school leaders committed numerous other violations of U.S. labor law. On Oct. 26, a federal district court judge ordered the school to stop violating labor law.

The case stems from a campaign by teachers and support staff to join American Federation of Teachers (AFT).  Workers at the private school wanted greater job security, and discipline and grievance procedures to protect them against pervasive maltreatment, unequal treatment, and unfair discipline.

On March 8, after a majority of the school’s employees signed union authorization cards, they asked the school to recognize the union. The very next day — according to evidence presented at the trial — school head Elimane Mbengue told an attorney to stop working on the renewal of Raclot’s work visa.  Raclot is a French citizen.  She has worked at the school for six years.  

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — the federal agency that’s supposed to protect workers’ right to unionize — investigated Raclot’s termination and found sufficient evidence to pursue charges against the school.

Anti-union members of the school’s board conducted mandatory anti-union meetings, made repeated threats of individual discipline and collective consequences, promised to remedy grievances within six months if workers would vote “no” on the union, and warned that unionizing would scare away parents and cause school closure within a year. They also maintained an illegal “no-complaining” rule, and enforced it selectively against union supporters.

The NLRB wanted to prevent continued lawbreaking while the case is pending, and asked U.S. District Court for a temporary court order, known as a “10(j) injunction.” Judge Michael Mosman granted the injunction for the most part, ordering the school to stop threatening and discriminating against pro-union employees, stop promising to remedy grievances in exchange for non-unionization, and get rid of the “no complaining” rule. The school must also post the court order, and hold a meeting of all employees within 10 days where the order would be read aloud.

If school administrators fail to comply with the court order, they could be held in contempt of court, with jail time and fines as a result.

All ESL Teachers Worldwide: Unionize

https://www.change.org/p/all-esl-teachers-english-as-a-second-language-worldwide-unionize

By Lauren Holt

Novato, CA

ESL teachers have one of the most difficult jobs in the education sector, and yet, they receive the lowest wages, especially in the United States and Canada. The ESL industry is predominantly controlled by private corporations that often pay their employees less than twenty dollars an hour despite the fact that they require degrees, certifications and work experience. ESL teachers often teach six classes per day in order to make ends meet and work long after their paid work day ends in order to fulfill their responsibilities. In order to make a change, we must rise up and unionize. There are hundreds of thousands of teachers in this field worldwide, all of whom would benefit. Let's stop complaining and let's make a change so we can continue working in an industry we love!

Tuesday's Tongue Twisters

Hello everyone,

It is Tuesday and time for some Tongue Twisters!  Pronunciation can be a

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challenge for second language learners.  A fun lesson to increase accuracy is to practice an assortment of tongue twisters.  Tongue Twisters lower the affective filter of English language learners and kids of all ages love to practice the sing-songy fun of a great tongue twisters.

Easy:

• I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
• chicks and clocks, bricks and blocks.

Medium:

• Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
  Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
  So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
• I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

Hard:

•  I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish
• When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

Tongue twisters are fun and engaging for young English learners.  They are also culturally significant and native speakers of English are always willing to join in the fun of this challenging practice.





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