GED
Reading and Social Studies
Weekly Lesson Plans
Week 1------150 minutes
Reiterate cell phone and attendance policy (5 minutes)
Ice Breaker Activity (15 minutes)
Stand up, say your name, and answer the following question:
What made you decide to sign up for classes and get your GED?
Score yourself on the Language Arts Writing Test I (5 minutes)
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Reading Test: pg 57; 1-50 (70 minutes)
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Social Studies Diagnostics Test 2: pg 31; 1-25 (35 minutes)
Week 2
Processing Ideas:
- Anticipate and react
- ask questions based on title and first few sentences after you skim/scan
- Visualize as you read
- draw a picture in your mind or on the paper
- link to what you know
- connect what you are reading that is new info to what you already know and build on that prior knowledge and previous experience
Focusing and Recording Main Ideas
- Look for the thesis, topic, and summary sentence
- This is the topic and what I or the author has to say about it
- Focus on essential details and examples
- less important; support main idea with facts, compare, examples, contrast, reasons
- Look for repeated material
- reworded material that is reiterated throughout is important info
Ch 16 "Reading and Interpreting" pg 475
· Find the main idea
o 1st sentence
o Final statement
o within
o not directly expressed
· Find details
o support or explain using facts, statistics, reasons, examples, compare, contrast, steps, categories within categories
Prose pg 478
Practice reading skills with guided questions (15 minutes)
There are three basic steps you should follow in order to find the main idea of a passage. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
2. What is the topic sentence of each paragraph?
3. What title would I give this passage?
Skill Exercise: Inferring Information from Details in a Passage
From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this, however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.
The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read. When I was sent on errands, I always took my book with me, and by doing one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return. I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me the more valuable bread of knowledge.
I am strongly tempted to give the names of two or three of those little boys, as a testimonial of the gratitude and affection I bear them; but prudence forbids;not that it would injure me, but it might embarrass them; for it is almost an unpardonable offense to teach slaves to read in this Christian country. It is enough to say of the dear little fellows that they lived on Philpot Street, very near Durgin and Bailey’s shipyard. I used to talk this matter of slavery over with them. I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have? These words seemed to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Question 1:.In reference to the above passage, how did Frederick Douglass learn to read?
a. On his own
b. With the help of his mistress
c. With the help of young white boys
d. By using his time in a clever way
e. By going to school with the other children
Answer: C
First of all, remember to reference information that can be found outside of the passage indicated. For instance, the only reference to the name "Frederick Douglass" is in the citation at the bottom of the passage. Since this citation says that it is "the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, "you know that the narrator in the passage is Frederick Douglass himself, and thus it is he who is learning to read.
Question 2: Based on information in this passage, when was Frederick Douglass Narrative written?
a.During the Middle Ages
b.During the Renaissance
c.Before the Civil War
d.Between 1880 and 1900
e.After 1900
Answer: C
Question 3: How does Frederick Douglass repay his teachers?
a.With gratitude
b.With knowledge
c.With guilt
d.With bread
e.With books
Answer: D
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What is about to Happen to Boris? practice pg 484-485; 1-6
What is a Camp of War-Wounded Like? practice 487; 1-6
Poetry pg 480
"Ozymandias"
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
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Geography
Give them a blank map of the world- fill in the continents and oceans (hint: 5 oceans and 7 continents)
Give them a blank map of the U.S. They are to see how many they can fill in on their own. Color those in. Log onto computers and find out which ones you are missing.
Why is it important to learn geography?
longitude vs. latitude; tropic of capricorn and tropic of cancer; time zones; equator
Types of topography: (Partner Activity)
Group 1- mountains Group 2- deserts Group 3- bays, lakes, rivers
Group 4: rainforests Group 5: grasslands and steppe
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Present information
Geography Practice pg 282-283; #1-8
Go over them
Week 3
Ch 17 "Language Arts and Reading Practice" pg 507 (Do all together)
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- U.S. History Reading Comp
Week 4
Ch 10 "Reading and Interpreting Social Studies Skills" pg 269
Steps to reading the passages:
- Scan and form questions
- Look over questions quickly
- Read passage and ask yourself what the main idea is or purpose of author
- Answer questions (go back to find supporting details)
Locating the main idea
Finding details
*For example; one reason is; an argument for/against; steps 1-?; before and after, cause and effect; however; compare and contrast
Determine organization
*sequence/steps; list; differing
Draw Conclusions
*in conclusion; thus; finally; as a result; consequently; accordingly
Read Critically
*react to what you are reading and judge the material
Propaganda Techniques 1-6 pg 272
Cause/Effect-pg 273
Compare/Contrast-pg 274
Vocab- derive meaning from context- pg275
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- Global History Reading Comp
2. Global History
3. Practice pg 278-279; #1-7
- Go over them
Week 5
Ch 10 pg 284-296 Interpreting Tables, Graphs, and Maps
Tables, Circle Graphs, Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, Maps
· title (top)
· numbers (left to right)
· labels for columns (bottom)
Practice pg 297; 1-40
Political Cartoons pg 306
· single issue: war, campaigns, corruption
· exaggerated likeness/caricature
· simple visual appeal
· cartoonists point of view
Practice pg 308 (Steps 1-4); 1-4
Historical Documents pg 312
· Documents 1-4
Photographs pg 318
· Photographs 1-5
Practical Documents pg 321-329
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1. Economics Reading Comp
2. Economics
3. Practice pg 280-282; #1-6
- Go over them
Week 6
Ch 11 "Handling Social Studies Skills Questions"
· Comprehension Items--10 Q understanding purpose and meaning of written material
o pg 337; 1-5
· Application Items-15 Q apply information and ideas to situations presented to you
o pg 339; 11-15
· Analysis Items-15 Q break down into parts (cause and effect, fact and opinion, conclusions from supporting details)
o pg 338; 6-10
· Evaluation Items-10 Q use your best judgment about soundness or accuracy of info
o pg 339; 16-20
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1. Civics and Government Reading Comp
2. Practice pg 276-278; #1-6
- Go over them
Week 7
Jeopardy Review Game
Practice Exam #1 (Review)
Answer sheet pg 743
Social Studies pg 760; #1-50
70 minutes
Reading pg 785; #1-40
65 minutes
Week 8
Practice Exam #2 (Post Tests):
Answer Sheet pg 833
Social Studies pg 850; #1-50
70 minutes
Reading pg 877; #1-40
65 minutes