| Team captain | PM name | Schedule | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Retrospectives | |
| Team 1 | Yaoyao Wang | Harold Zhang | Sat. | 1, We introduced each other. 2, Wang Yao Yao presented soccer with the screen sharing of ppt slides. Steve presented coin collection with the screen sharing of ppt slides. 3, Each student presented their typical school days. 4, They had some causal conversations. 5. They agree to talk about poetry for the second meeting. 6. They agree to meet every week the same time in the weekend. Well done! |
总结TEAM-1第二课 3/21/2020 美东时间8PM. We completed several activities. 1, Wang Yao Yao made a presentation of poetry and introduced elements of poetry with some famous examples such as “A dream deferred”. He had the screen sharing. 2, Steve Zhong made a presentation of poetry by introducing types of poetry and analyzing poetry. He had screen sharing too. 3, Four students all had chance to read poems together or take turns. 4, They made a plan for next meeting. Wang Yao Yao will present WW I. Steve Zhong will present WW II. Winston will present Chinese history. Wang Ziqian will present history of running (track and field ) in Olympic Games. 5, All students will make preparations and write or type their talking points. Well done! | 总结TEAM-1 第三课3/28/2020 美东时间晚上8-9. CAPTAIN-WANG YAOYAO家长. We completed several activities. 1, 武汉同学Winston and Mya completed a PowerPoint presentation titled “明朝的灭亡和清朝的建立”. Students discussed characters of different emperors and powers of two dynasties. 2, 北美同学Wang Yaoyao presented a PowerPoint presentation titled ‘World War I and Spanish Flu 1918.’ Students discussed the Flu epidemic in the climate of COVID-19. 3, 北美同学Steve Zhong presented a PowerPoint presentation titled ‘World War II’. A clear thread of war events was presented with maps. 4, students made plans for week #4. Week #4 will focus on science. Students planned to talk about these subjects: public health, space, computer programming, biology, and physics. 5, technical issues: Zoom meeting was cut off in 40 minutes. Everyone had to re-enter the meeting room. All PowerPoints had screen sharing. Students were all engaged. Well done! | 总结TEAM-1 第四课 4/4/2020 美东时间8-9:17pm CAPITAIN是WANG，YAOYAO家长 具体活动如下： 1, Each student makes a presentation and has screen share of the presentation. Yao Yao’s topic is Public Health and he introduces five diseases. Steve’s topic is Outer Space and his presentation mixes words and graphs. Winston’s topic is Computer Programming and introduces software and five commonly used computer languages. Wang, Ziqian summarizes the national day of mourning for thousands of coronavirus victims in China 4/4/2020. At 10am Beijing time, China observed three minutes of silence to mourn those who died including medical doctors, nurses, and workers. Mya presented the brain function. 2, question and answer Q&A followed. 3, Students made plan for next week. They will talk about biographies including Charles Dickens, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Von Gosh, and Heros who fight the coronavirus pandemic. Another session is Well done! | 总结TEAM-1 Saturday 第五课 时间美东周六4/11/2020 8-9:30pm This week we focused on biography. We completed the following activities: 1, Yao Yao presented a British writer Charles Dickens. 2, Winston presented an American entrepreneur Bill Gates. 3, Mia presented a Dutch artist Van Gogh. 4, Steve presented a Swiss mathematician Euler. Everyone shared screens when making presentations. They made agreement that they will study MONEY next week. 1, Yao Yao will study foreign currency exchange. 2, Winston will study digital money such as bitcoin. 3, Mia will study banking system in general. 4, Steve will study tax system. 5, Wang Ziqian will study mobile payment. Well done! | 总结 TEAM-1 第七课 Saturday 4/25/2020 US eastern time We completed these activities related to Healthy Life Style. 1, Yao Yao presented Adolescent mental health. 2, Steve presented Healthy Eating. 3, Winston talked about Nutrition. 4, Wang Ziqian 介绍了学校的社团活动. 5. We made plans for next week. The theme will be geography. Yao Yao: Forest; Steve: Ocean; Winston: Mountain; Wang Ziqian: Desert. Good job! | |||
| Team 2 | Caroline Wang | Harold Zhang | Sun. | 1. Due to technical difficulties, we joined a bit off schedule 2. We started off by introducing ourselves with our names, grades, and hobbies 3. We discussed what material we would cover the next time we meet 4. We agreed on a set time for the remainder of all our meetings 5. We all decided to review the material at home before we met so that we would have a better understanding of the material that we would learn |
1. Krystal Pan – Soccer Summer (reading, vocabulary, and responding to any questions posed) 2. Caroline Wang – Play Ball (reading, vocabulary, and responding to any questions posed) 3. 周恒宇 ， 李昕怡 – (read through both articles and ask questions about the material) 4. Free discussion about topics related to reading materials. 5. Decide on meeting time for future meetings; changed to 8:30AM Eastern Time | Team 2- 04/05/2020 Meeting Memo Today, we had some issues with the Chinese students not reviewing the course materials before class so we could not review them as planned. Also, we had a new student joining the team at the last minute. So our remaining time was spent on: 1. Having our new student introduced herself. 2. Having an open discussion about our week. 3. Q/A about our experiences of online school. 4. Reviewing vocabulary from the passage assigned for next week. | Today, we had a new student joining the team at the last minute. Our time together today was spent on: 1. Having our new student introduce himself. 2. Reading the passages assigned. 3. Reviewing the problems corresponding to the passage. 4. Agreeing on a passage for next week’s lesson. | Team 2- 04/19/2020 Meeting Memo Today, we only had one student coming to the meeting so the time necessary to review the material was shorter than usual. Our time together today was spent on: 1. Reading the passages assigned. 2.Reviewing the problems corresponding to the passage. 3.Agreeing on a passage for next week’s lesson. 4. Free discussion about our favorite books. | ||||
| Team 3 | May li | Harold Zhang | Sun 10am | We started the lesson at 3/14 at 10 pm. for 1 hour. During the class, we introduced ourselves. Based on requests from WuHan students, they wanted to do ‘Garden.’ We took turns to read out loud the passages first and then we go over any places that they don’t understand and asked them to try to summarize the passage. We completed all three parts of ‘Garden’. After the class, we talked about what we should improve on WeChat. The area for improvement is for student from US to slow down a bit while reading. That’s the only one area they mentioned. Overall, they are great and have a good start. We will continue next week on Sunday at 10pm. | One person was absent today. We started on time and the meeting was 50 minutes long. Our first article was “Art School” and our second one was “What’s Cooking”. Everyone would read a few paragraphs, and if there was a word that someone wouldn’t understand, we would explain it and give an example/comparison. After finishing a story, we would answer the questions on the document. After finishing both of the stories, we talked about how everyone was doing, what our favorite movies were, what our favorite books were, and ended by discussing what we would read next week. Everyone was actively involved, and we learned a lot. | We started class at 4/4, at 10pm. We first welcomed the new student joining us and introduced ourselves. We then took turn reading the chosen theme which is, Blocking Water, in Nature Science. We then went over any confusing places and we voted on the talk about our week. They did great this week, just a few pronunciation errors and new vocabulary. We will continue next Sunday at 10pm. | Everyone entered the meeting today. One person was a few minutes late, but everyone else was on time. The meeting was 45 minutes long. The article that we read was “Cats, Cats, Cats”. Everyone would alternate reading, each person reading a few paragraphs at a time. After reading the article, we answered the questions, and in the end, we discussed how our week was and if we did anything special. Everyone was actively involved, and we learned a lot. | |||||
| Team 4 | Lin li | Harold Zhang | Sat. 9PM | 今天第四组的第一次meeting很不错。大家一开始比较拘束，很快就适应啦。我们学习了sports那一章。孩子们轮流读文章，然后翻译成中文，互相问针对文章内容的问题。他们还说了自己踢足球的经历。大家英文自我介绍名字，年龄，年级，爱好。我们还定下来下周学习哪一章。今天会议对每个同学都是一个有意义的经历。我们花了一个小时整。 第一次会是3／14号美东晚九点。 参加同学：第四组全体同学，4个 下次会议时间：3／21号美东晚九点 |
Meeting date: 3/21 9-10pm EST Summary: We started on time, and the meeting was 1 hour long. We chose to do history, and read Flying in History. Everyone would read a few paragraphs. After each paragraph, we translated it and told everyone what we learned. After we finished the story, we answered a few of the questions provided in the document. We then talked about planes. We also discussed what everyone was doing at home. We finished by discussing what we would read next meeting. Everyone was actively involved, and we learned a lot. | We started our course a little late, and it was an hour long. We studied the book fair and Book fair Brainstorming. We translated and read it word for word. After reading the story, we answered the questions in the book. After that, we talked to each other about the types of books we like and learned when our school started. Everyone feels that time passes quickly because we enjoy the process of learning and communicating with each other. All member of the group attended. Time: March 28th, 9-10pm, EST, today’s (3/28) meeting host is Walter. 邓致远 | Summary: This class is full of twists and turns. We got into trouble at the beginning, and it lasted 20 minutes. Later, we focused on the article “Art school” and discussed it. We read and translated the whole article, answered questions, and discussed our views on the art class. This is a short but wonderful lesson. Time: April 4th, 9-10pm, EST All four members attended. | Summery: Today we started off our class with our chosen topic which was “Reasons to Run”. We took turns reading while answering questions Walter and Kelvin had. We also asked questions provided with the story. In the end of class we discussed about running and the different distances you can complete in. | The meeting started on time, and lasted 1 hour. We chose to read “A Bird Excursion”. Everyone read a few paragraphs. Sometimes we translated what we read, other times we asked comprehension questions about the paragraphs. After we finished the story, we answered some of the questions on the second page of the document. We discussed some grammar and vocabulary. We then talked about bird watching and state birds. At the end, I shared a music video that my friends and I made as part of a COVID-19 relief project. Everyone participated actively, and we learned a lot. | |||
| Team 5 | Harold Zhang | Harold Zhang | Sun. 9 am | 1. the meeting was 40 minutes longs. 2. we started out with some members with technical issue, unfortunate one member decided to withdraw from the meeting (it is currently unclear whether she will join the next session) 3. We then made self introductions between the three of us and discussed our hobbies to get to know each other better. 4. We decided on topics to cover, but there are also other suggestions on topics. 5. Next time everyone is to turn on their camera at the beginning of the meeting, and we will start discussing the topic we agreed on. 6. Ender Xu performed really well conversing with us, and tried his best to give all his responses in English. |
Summary of Sunday March 22 2020 meeting 1. meeting was 60 minutes longs. 2. One of the members ran into technical difficulties, most likely WiFi related, and unfortunately had to withdraw from the class. 3. We then had Ender read 2 passages, one about rooftop gardens and one about art class. 4. As Ender read along we also helped him correct any pronunciations, as well as help him define words he was unfamiliar with. 5. We went over the comprehension questions with Ender, he was able to answer all the questions correctly. 6. We also held conversations after regarding the topics of the passages, Ender said that speaking in English was helpful, as conversing in English is not something he gets to practice a lot. | Summary of Sunday March 29 2020 meeting 1. meeting was 65 minutes longs. 2. We finish 2 passages with Ender, one on the Smithsonian museum, and one about the presidential election 3. The passages appear to be a little bit too challenging for Ender. 4. There was a good amount of vocabulary that he was not familiar with. 5. We went over the comprehension questions with Ender, he was able to answer all the questions correctly thought it took longer than last time 6. We also held conversations after regarding the topics of the passages, it seems that we could consider lowering the difficulty of the passages we choose to read next time. | Summary of Sunday April 5 2020 meeting 1. meeting was 65 minutes longs. 2. We ran into technical difficulties in the beginning, due to miscommunication of correct passwords. 3. We finish 2 passages with Ender, both on the topic of cooking 4. The Ender seemed to understand the passage really well. 5. There was vocabulary that he was not familiar with, we encountered Spanish names and words in the passage which was unfamiliar to Ender, but we were able to clear up the confusion 6. We went over the comprehension questions with Ender, he was able to answer all the questions correctly thought it took longer than last time 7. We also held conversations after regarding the topics of the passages, it seems that we could consider lowering the difficulty of the passages we choose to read next time | Summary of Sunday April 5 2020 meeting 1. meeting was 45 minutes longs. 2. ender got a new computer so now we are able to open our cameras. 3. We finish 2 passages with Ender, one on the topic of bank accounts, and one on the the topic of printing money and counterfeiting 4. The Ender seemed to understand the passage really well, we also were able to get through the passages fairly quickly 5. We encountered less unfamiliar vocabulary and only have minor issues with spelling 6. We went over the comprehension questions with Ender, he was able to answer all the questions correctly 7. We also held conversations after regarding the topics of the passages, as well as other topics he is interested in with the remaining time. | Summary of Sunday April 19 2020 meeting 1. meeting was 40 minutes longs. 2. We started class 5 mins late. 3. ender got a new computer so now we are able to open our cameras. 4. We finish 2 passages with Ender, both were on the topic of birds 5. The Ender seemed to understand the passage really well, we also were able to get through the passages fairly quickly 6. I think ender know the definition for the majority of the words but does have trouble form time to time with pronunciation of names 7. We went over the comprehension questions with Ender, he was able to answer all the questions correctly 8. It seems that we are getting through the passages faster now | |||
| Team 6 | Jonathan Zhao | Fri. 8:30PM | All participants were there Meeting time: 60 mins Topics were decided One of them has a broken mic |
Members were rather shy, didn’t talk much. Went over the article “Busy, Busy, Bees”. Worked on pronunciation. Decide on meeting time for future meetings; changed to 8:00AM Eastern Time | Issue at start, meeting started late. Went over the article “Pyramid Power”. Used google translate to explain complicated words. Next class will be going over the article “Play Ball”. | Missing one participant, went over the article “Play ball”, corrected their pronunciation. | We went over the article, “the world underwater” and corrected pronunciation. only one person from the Chinese team joined. two fakers also joined, naming themselves as the rest of the Chinese team. we kicked them out. | |||||
| Team 7 | Jonathan Zhao | Sat. 9PM | Missing one participant: 彭子萱. Meeting lasted 60 mins, we did icebreakers(Two Truths and a Lie) and talked about school, picked 8 topics. | Missing 1 participant: 彭子萱. One participant had connection problems. Worked on the Sports “Play Ball” Passage. Walked through the passage and talked about pronunciation and difficult words. Also worked on correctly saying dates. Completed all the questions for the “Play Ball” Passage. | Meeting started on time, we went over the article “Cooking up a tasty cinco De Mayo”. Corrected pronunciation and explained the meaning behind any difficult words. Students are progressing well and trying to learn. Went through all the questions for the article. | Meeting started on time, went over the article “A schoolyard garden”. Worked on difficult words and types of vegetables. Finished all of the following questions related to the article. | One participant missing, another had network issues but it did not affect the meeting that much. Went over the article “A garden in the clouds.” We covered the difficult words and new pronunciations, and also went through each question at the end of the passage. | |||||
| Team 8 | Jonathan Zhao | Fri. 7:00PM | Introduced themselves, talked about interests and hobbies. Planned meeting time: 7:00PM Friday. Next topic is “Sports” | Everyone attended the meeting, no technical problems. Learned vocabulary and summarizing skills from two sports articles, and finished the questions. Planning on doing Money section next class. Assigned homework: Start on the first article and do a few questions. | All gear was working well and everyone had camera and microphone on. We went over the homework which was the money unit questions for the last article, Money Matters. Then during class we finished the Biography unit and the homework was to read the last story and to go over the summary and talk about it for next week. We talked about what sports they like and how they were doing since it was related to the biography unit, the story in soccer. They are doing great and progress is being made. Class lasted for approximately 1 hour. | For the class we had finished the socual studies unit and had done all the work included. We had a plan to do natural science next week. While we went over the articles we helped teach words they didnt know and helped with their pronounciation. Class was a little harder fir them but they still did good. We talked a hit about the topics mentioned and class was about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Everyone participated and everything was working and fine. | During this class period we learned about natural science and finished the topic and unit. During the class one of the students was very interactive and engaging while the other student had some troubles with the mic and camera so it was hard to communicate. The class lasted for around 1 hour and 10 minutes and went faster than before. At the end of the lesson we gave a presentation or a small slide show to show what they read about and get to see. | During this class we had learned about School Life and lasted around 1 hour and 20 minutes because the unit was much longer than expected. Also for this week one students were having difficulty with mic and camera and the other student didn’t participate as fully.The unit itself was kind of challenging for the students and we explained the words and definitions that they didn’t understand. We managed to finish the lesson and gave homework to finish the questions of the last article. | For this class we did our last unit of the topic birds. This was actually the hardest article for them because there were many unfamiliar words and the bird names were strange to pronounce and read to them. To help aid them for better understanding we had created slideshow of picture of the different birds they read about to get a better understanding. The class lasted for around 1 hour and this time all mics and camera were working well. Both students participated fully and contributed during the class. | |||
| Team 9 | Jonathan Zhao | Sat. 9PM | Our first meeting was yesterday starting from 9:00 US time. The eight topics we chose were garden, sports, cooking, fitness, natural science, history, animal, and money. For the first meeting we went over the garden topic. The people that attended were Matthew Lu, Larry yuan, 叶子轩, and 高卓然. Our next meeting will be next Saturday 9:00 US time. | Duration: 60 minutes, All students participated. Learned all articles of “Natural Science”, and completed the learning tasks efficiently. | Went through the topics of School life, everybody participated. Took turns reading and answering questions. Meeting was efficient. | |||||||
| Team 10 | Jonathan Zhao | Sat. 10AM | Introduced themselves, read 4 passages from the Natural Science section. Walked through passages and questions with each other. After reading the 4 passages and answering 2 sets of questions, meeting was concluded. | |||||||||
| Team 11 | 徐少丹 (Kevin Xu) | During her first meeting, they introduced themselves and decided on the following topics: school life, cooking, sea life, animals, sports, history, money, natural science. | Our session today was at 9 am EST and we did School Life. Tiffany, Cherry, and I were all here. Mina wasn’t. Our next meeting will be next Sunday at 9 am as well and we will be doing Cooking next. | My team finished last week’s passage as well as this week’s passage. We had fewer pronunciation corrections. We also easily answered the questions and agreed on all of the question answers. Everyone talked about his/her reasoning very well today. We have decided on the topic School Life next week and the passage Book fair Brainstorming. | Today we read both articles in “Animals” and discussed the questions. Everyone was here except for Mina I’m not sure if she still does the meetings, but I will try to get in contact with her. Our next meeting is next Sunday 9:00 am about Sports. | |||||||
| Team 12 | 徐少丹 (Kevin Xu) | Sat. 9:00 PM | Aida had a meeting on March 14th 9-10 PM EST time. All four members (Haitian Huang, Meng Yuan, Ai Xin Ran, Aida) were present. The eight topics they will focus on are school life, animal, cooking, sports, biography, natural science, garden and history. The time of the next meeting will be March 21st, 9-10 PM EST. | Today Team 12 had our second meeting today (March 21st) from 9-10 PM EST. The topic we focused on was school life, so everyone talked about their own school for around 5-10 minutes. Some kids discussed their daily schedule, some showed pictures, and some talked about some small stories. We also asked questions to one another about the difference between schools in America and China, and the difference between public, private, and boarding schools. It was very interesting, informative, and fun! We will discuss the topic of animals next time, which will be at the same time in one week. The meeting will be structured similarly and we will use more of the reading material. | Team 12 just had their third meeting today, March 28th from 9-10 PM EST. Three out of four members were present (Aida, Haitian, and Yuan Meng). The topic we focused on this week was animals. In the beginning of the meeting we all talked about our favorite animals with presentations and pictures. After that, we read the “Cats, Cats, Cats” article provided on google drive and answered the questions. | Today we had our fourth meeting at 9-10 PM EST. It started late due to internet and password issues, but I am sure it will be fine next week. Everyone was present. We focused on cooking, and everyone talked a little bit about food, and some of us even presented, and we went over the tortilla casserole recipe article. Additionally, there is an issue I wanted to ask you all about. The two girls Haitian and I are grouped with are named Ai Xin Ran and Yuan Meng. They are both nice and wonderful to be around, but their English comprehension levels seem quite different. Yuan Meng’s English is very impressive and she seems to understand everything we say, but Ai Xin Ran cannot understand the articles we read. Do you guys have any ideas as to how we can solve this problem? Are there any other groups who are faced with a similar situation? Could we split the meeting in half, and dedicate one half for each girl? Is there anything we could do? | Today we had our fifth meeting with the topic of sports. Everyone was present. Next time we will discuss biographies, and talk about a person of our choice. | We had our weekly meeting yesterday at 9 PM EST. All members were present and we read, presented, and talked about biographies. Next week our topic will be the natural sciences. | Team 12 had a meeting focusing on the topic of natural sciences today. All members except for Yuan Meng were present (but she warned us prior). We read the article, “Busy Bees” and took a virtual tour in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. | |||
| Team 13 | 徐少丹 (Kevin Xu) | Sat. 8:00 PM | Team 13 met 8 PM-9PM Saturday EST and introduced themselves. The topics they chose are Natural Science, Sea Life, Money, Sports, History, Animal, Fitness, and Cooking. |
We went through Busy, Busy Bees. I corrected Bella’s pronunciation. Rose didn’t get a chance to prepare, so I will let her read the passage and send it to me on WeChat. I showed them a powerpoint about bees. We then got to talk about our experiences with bees. The next one will be about “Moon Mystery”. However, there is an error with the document — it has the wrong passage in the folder, and Maria will fix it. | Today, Leran led the group. We first went over and corrected Rose’s pronunciation on the previous passage, Busy-Busy-Bees. Then we mainly went over the current passage, Moon Mystery–first by listening to and correcting Rose and Bella’s reading, and then discussing and answering the questions regarding the passage. The next passage will be Blocking Water. | My team finished our passage early today. Everyone comprehended the passage very well, we had little to no corrections throughout the entire passage. We also understood the questions well today. We were able to talk about the difference between first and third point of views. We decided on doing River Dolphins as our next passage next week. Also, when I open the Rive Dolphins pdf, it shows me a document about coins and change. Can you please send me the pdf of it before next Wednesday please. Or should my group pick a different topic? Have a great week! | Last night, there was a ZOOM meeting on the passage “Catching a Wave”. Leran was the leader. We listened to Bella and Rose read that passage, and then let them do the Questions that follow it. Leran recorded Bella’s words on WeChat last night. I will upload Rose’s words later today. The next passage we will read will be “Water Giants” | Yesterday we already finished the Watery Giants passage. Now we finished all of the Natural Sciences. The next passage will be the “River Dolphins” passage, which is Sea Life. | This meeting was only about 25 minutes long, as we didn’t have to do much with this passage today. Leran was the leader today. We first listened to Bella and Rose reading the passage: “River Dolphins”. I worked on correcting Bella’s pronunciation, while Leran corrected Rose’s pronunciation. We then answered the questions that follow the passage. The next passage we will read is “Cooking Up a Tasty Cinco de Mayo” |
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| Team 14 | 徐少丹 (Kevin Xu) | Danielle’s team has decided on the following topics: History, Animal, Cooking, Sports, Sea Life, Natural Science, Bird, and School Life. Danielle’s team has also decided on doing the topic History next week and the passage “The Eight Wonder of the World” next week. For Danielle’s team performance today, she felt like they all did really well. Everyone contributed to her decisions and everyone learned something new about each other today. Danielle did make clarifications on some pronunciations but besides for that everything ran smoothly. | My team did not finish answering the questions to our passage “The Eighth Wonder of the World”. We had a bit of trouble with some syllable pronunciations and more complicated word meanings. We helped clarify by breaking the word apart into syllables. We also had some trouble with the main idea, some of us gave more general ideas, but after discussing it with one another we decided on a statement that covered everything. We will be continuing this passage into the next meeting. We will have the same meeting time. Have a great rest of your day! | We started by reading the passage Power of the Cat. When we finished the questions, we still had 30 minutes left. We spent the rest of the time finishing the questions we didn’t finish last time. | Today, we talked about the passage “Blocking Water”. First, I listened to them read. Then, I let them answer the questions about the passage. The next passage we will do is “Catching a Wave”. I also recorded and took notes about their pronunciations. I put the correct ones on WeChat so they can practice. | My team finished our passage early today. Everyone participated and we answered all the questions together. We cleared up some pronunciations and had some problem with chronological order but besides for those two things, everything ran smoothly today. We decided to do the passage Garden Gourmet in the topic Cooking next week. I hope you have a great rest of your day! | My team finished the passage before half of the time today. Everyone was able read the passage pretty easily except for one or two more complicated words. We all agreed on the answers to the passage without disagreements and finished reading an extra passage. We agreed to do the topic birds and the passage It’s a Bird’s Life next week. | |||||
| Team 15 | 徐少丹 (Kevin Xu) | When we started this session at 9 p.m., we struggled to learn Zoom for ten minutes, but eventually moved on to use WeChat. We understand how to use Zoom now so it won’t be an issue in future sessions. 王雪多格 seemed to experience technical difficulties in the way that it seemed she wasn’t in the WeChat group call but she claims otherwise. Hopefully, we’ll have a full attendance next session so we can get to know 王雪多格 better. Due to the fact that we forgot to go over the 8 sections of study material, we will be going over that either before or during the next session. We played icebreakers this time such as Would You Rather and Two Truths One Lie. I believe that we know each other a lot better after these 40 minutes. | We started our Zoom session at 9 p.m, with a few technical difficulties but we managed to fix it. All four members joined the call, however, one group member’s mic had not seemed to be working so we suggested they type in the chat. We picked our eight topics for our following meetings because we forgot about it last meeting. We all agreed on: History, School Life, Social Studies, Animal, Fitness, Natural Science, Sea Life, and Sports. This meeting chose to do History, and we read one of the articles about pyramids on the study materials. We let the Wuhan students answer the questions that came with it and we helped with any questions they had. | We started our Zoom meeting at 9 p.m., but none of the Wuhan students were able to join so we had to postpone it to 9 a.m. the next morning. Me, Zhouying, and 吴小涵 joined the group call. However, after ten minutes 王雪多格 still hadn’t joined so we decided to continue without her. In this session, we discussed and summarized the three passages from school life. Together, we read out loud the articles about a book fair, an art class, and an academic quiz show. | We had our zoom meeting this week at 9 a.m on Sunday. We were short one person again from our group who we hope will be able to join us our next meeting. Today we went over the topic Biography and we read the three articles/stories that came with it. We took turns reading the passages and we encouraged the Wuhan student to give us a summary of each story. We helped her learn how to expand more in detail in her summaries. We had extra time left over so we went over any questions that 吴小涵 had for us and we answered her question about definitions of words she wasn’t familiar with, for example, career | |||||||
| Team 16 | Aurora Zheng | Aurora Zheng | Sat. 9-10 PM | Introduced ourselves and picked the topics: Animals, cooking, sealife, sports, school life, natural science, history and poetry. | Went over the article, “Cats, cats, cats,”. Everyone was there. Next class, we will be going over “Plenty of Pancakes”. | We went over “Plenty of pancakes”. It was a little rough because the connection was bad, and people kept disconnecting, so we moved to a Wechat call. However, the connection was still very bad. We finished going over some questions and ended the call. | We went over the passage, “Sports Summer”, and went over pronounciation and meanings of some words. Then, we answered questions in the Vocabulary skills section. I made them repeat each vocabulary word after me. At the end, I assigned the reading skills portion as homework. | We went over the reading questions hw from last class, and then began reading “Art school”. After that, we went and answered the rest of the questions | We went over a history passage, and assigned the questions for homework. They had a bit more difficulty reading the passage, so we spent more time going over words and their definitions. | We went over the passages in poems, worked on the questions, and learned about our country’s more well known poems and poets | I think it was a really good opportunity to get to know more about each other’s cultures. We got to work on some of their pronunciations and vocabulary. I kinda went both ways, since they also helped me pronounce chinese words right. Some of the things learned about their culture, were like famous poets and their poems from china | |
| Team 17 | Benjamin Li | Benjamin Li | Sat. 8-9 PM | Today everybody introduced themselves. We got to know each other and talked about our schools, hobbies, and other interests. We also talked about what topics we would like to read about and the English skills we wanted to focus on (conversation, speaking). | Time: 3/21/20 (EST 8-9 PM) Today we went over 2 passages: A Fitness Challenge and A Natural Bath. We took turns reading paragraphs in English, and we went over any words that there were questions about. Also, at the end of each passage, we answered the reading comprehension and vocabulary questions about the passage. | Time: 3/28/20 (EST 8-9 PM) We went over two poetry passages. We took turns reading paragraphs in English. We also reviewed unfamiliar words and answered the questions at the end of the passages. One student who was not as active before participated more today, which was very good. | Time: 4/5/20 (EST 8-9 PM) We went over the Sea Life passages, including “River Dolphins” and “The World Underwater.” We also answered the questions that came with the passages to improve vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. | Time: 4/12/20 (EST 8-9 PM) We went over several passages about sports. We went through the comprehension/vocabulary questions after each passage | Time: 4/19/20 (8-9 P.M. EST) We went over several passages about money this week. We also answered the questions at the end of each passage. | |||
| Team 18 | Kevin Lu | Benjamin Li | Sunday 7:00-7:55 AM | We met at 7:00 am this Sunday US time, and ended at 7:55 US time. Everyone was there. We first introduced ourselves, then gave them 2 different level passages for evaluation. The first being a level 4 to quiz them, and they did good. We gave them a level 5 passage, and they missed a few words. Other than that they were great. we decided that our next topic was natural science, and our next meeting is Saturday morning 9:00 AM US time. | Time: Saturday 3/20, 9-10pm China Standard, 9-10am EST Jack Huo was the leader for this meeting. We read through A Desert in Bloom under 9-Natural Science. All four of us took turns reading each paragraph, then we corrected any mistakes, defined some words, and discussed its meaning. We also discussed contextual information, such as the locations of Arizona and Massachusetts, along with some figurative language. At the end the two students from China summarized the passage. We did not go through the questions. | Last class, we had the meeting at about 9.00 to 10.00 Beijing time.We have talked about two pasages about School Life,<Art School>and<Book Fair Brainstorm>.We read the passages and learnt some difficult words.We also summarized the main meaning of the passages and talked about the general frameworks.At last,we chose the host of the next meeting and decided the next topic. | 上周课程小结： 本次交流中，学习了《cooking》中的“cooking up”和“Now you are cook”两篇文章，增进了我们关于食物的英文词汇理解。 下一次交流时间是4月11日北京时间9:00pm. | We did pretty well, and we went over 2 different passages. Our next topic will be social studies. | On April 18, 2020 from 9-10 pm Beijing time, team 18 had its meeting. Jack was the leader. Team 18 went through the passages of “The Race for President” and “The Mega-Museum” in a slide presentation. Difficult words, person/place names, and idioms were examined in more detail. The team also went through the follow up questions together. Overall everyone had a positive experience. | |||
| Team 19 | Allen Xu | Benjamin Li | Sunday 3/15/20 (8:30-9:30 AM EST) | Summary: Today Rainer, Richard, James, and I introduced ourselves in the beginning, like talking about where we go to school and what grades we are in. After that, we discussed topics we are going to study about in each lesson. Next, we talked about what sports we did, what video games we played, and what kind of school schedule we had every day to know each other better. Overall, we had a very good time and the talk ran very smoothly. I believe this meeting is a success and we have learned a lot about each other in our team. | Time: 3/20/20 (9:45-10:45 PM UTC-4) Today we looked at the passage Floating in Air (Moon Mystery). Rainer and Richard both read paragraphs 1-4. Then Rainer read paragraph 5 and Richard read paragraph 6 and 7. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Richard had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We then established the next meeting time. | Time: 3/28/20 (9-10 AM UTC-4) Participants: Allen Xu, James Liu, Rainer Cheng, Richard Guo Summary: Today we looked at the passage “A Stinging Surprise.” The things we did were pretty much the same as last time: read the passage, main idea for each paragraph, and vocab words. Also we talked about a little bit about our experiences at the beach. Next Meeting: 4/4/20 (9-10 AM UTC-4) | Time: 4/4/20 9-10 AM UTC-4 Participants: Allen Xu, James Liu, Rainer Cheng, Richard Guo Summary: Today we looked at the passage Home Sweet Home. Rainer read paragraphs 1,3,5 and Richard read paragraphs 2,4,6. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Richard had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We also talked about stories of volcanoes and our homes. We then established the next meeting time. | Summary: Today we looked at the passage Cooking Up a Tasty Cinco de Mayo. Rainer read half of the 20 paragraphs and so did Richard. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Richard had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We also talked about some Mexican foods and foreign foods we tried and made before. We talked about our daily lives and Ding Ding app. | Time: 4/18/20 8:45- 9:45 AM UTC-4 Participants: Allen Xu, James Liu, Rainer Cheng, Richard Guo Summary: Today we looked at the passage Getting Up to Speed. Rainer read half of the paragraphs and so did Richard. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Richard had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We talked about our daily lives and our exercises every day. |
Time: 4/25/20 9-10 AM UTC-4 Participants: Allen Xu, James Liu, Rainer Cheng, Richard Guo Summary: Today we looked at the passage By the Light of the Moon. Rainer read half of the paragraphs and so did Richard. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Rainer had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We talked about our daily lives and pets we had and have. |
Time: 5/2/20 9-10 AM UTC-4 Participants: Allen Xu, James Liu, Rainer Cheng, Richard Guo Summary: Today we looked at the passage 8 th Wonder of the World. Rainer read half of the paragraphs and so did Richard. I told them for each paragraph they read, they have to state the main idea for each paragraph, and they have to answer vocabulary questions. For some paragraphs, Rainer and Richard had some questions, so I answered those. After getting through the whole passage, Rainer said the whole main idea of the passage. We talked about our daily lives and dams we visited. Oh, and there was a visitor, Richard’s friend. She was silent for the whole time, but she was an observer. |
Overall, my experience teaching Rainer and Richard about English was a pleasurable one. They were very focused on understanding the reading passage, yet they were mature enough to participate in our discussions about the article and the ones about our lives. They had some pronunciation issues during the first few weeks, but after a few sessions, they were able to pronounce almost all of the words correctly. Their ELA comprehension has significantly improved. During the first few classes, they had trouble telling us the main idea of some paragraphs, but the last few sessions they knew a lot more about what the main idea of the passage was. Another significant improvement they have developed was that their vocabulary has be expanded tenfold. Before, they didn’t know 25% of the words in the article, but after a while, that percentage has been shrunken to virtually nothing. So overall, this experience is very soothing and I would love to do this again. |
| Team 20 | Take turns being captain | Benjamin Li | Sunday March 15th (EST 8:00 AM) | Group 20 read and discussed By the Light of the Moon. Three people were present, Michelle Zhu, Michelle Yang, and Ruby Chen. To start with, the two Michelles read the passage and then translated it into Chinese. Subsequently, Ruby asked questions about the parts of the passage where she was confused. At this point, we talked for around 10 minutes about school, comparing American schools to Chinese schools. To conclude, we discussed when we would meet for the next meeting, as well as what passage we would read next. | Group 20, on March 22th (EST 8:00 AM), read and discussed Cats Cats Cats. All four people were present, Michelle Zhu, Michelle Yang, Candy, and Ruby. However, Ruby’s network bandwidth was low, and we assumed she could not talk but could hear us most of the conversation. Instead of the two Michelles reading the entire passage and then translating it into Chinese, this week, we read (in English) one paragraph at a time. After every paragraph, we would explain and Candy would ask questions about the vocab, or about the passage in general. Then, we again talked for around 15 minutes about our schools, comparing American schools to Chinese schools and discussing our schedules. To conclude, we discussed when we would meet for the next meeting. Furthermore, we decided that we would alternate team captains, and Candy would be our next team captain. Our meeting ended at EST 9:20 AM. | Group 20,on March 29th (WH 8:00PM），read and discussed Flying into History.Three people were present, Michelle Zhu,,Michelle Yang，Candy.Ruby was in the exam at that time，so he didn’t take part in it.The two Michelles reading the entire passage and then translating it into Chinese.this weak,the two Michelles read (in English) one paragraph at a time.After every paragraph，the two Michelles explained and I asked some questions about the vocab，or about the passage in general.Then，we talked about pets for about five minutes.We also talked about some of the things we were afraid of.At last,we discussed when to have the next meeting.Our group is the leader of the circle,and Michelle Yang.Our meeting ended at WH 9:25PM. | Group 20,on March 29th (WH 8:00PM），read and discussed Flying into History.Three people were present, Michelle Zhu,,Michelle Yang，Candy.Ruby was in the exam at that time，so she didn’t take part in it.The two Michelles read the entire passage and then translating it into Chinese.this week,the two Michelles read (in English) one paragraph at a time.After every paragraph，the two Michelles explained and I asked some questions about the vocab，or about the passage in general.Then，we talked about pets for about five minutes.We also talked about some of the things we were afraid of.At last,we discussed when to have the next meeting.Our group is the leader of the circle,and Michelle Yang will be the next leader.Our meeting ended at WH 9:25PM. | |||||
| Team 21 | Ashley Wang | Benjamin Li | Friday 9-10 EST | We Introduced ourselves and went over the article “Playball”. We each took turns reading one sentence of the story then went over the given question on the attached file. One of our group members did not participate. | For our second session on Saturday (US Eastern Time), we continued reading the articles provided in the files. We asked them to read “Plenty of Pancakes” and went over every individual word that they were unfamiliar with or struggled to pronounce. We then completed all the questions for the “Plenty of Pancakes” passage. One of our members did not attend. | This week, we started reading “A Garden in the Clouds” and went over any unfamiliar words afterwords. We then answered the given questions attached to the article. Next week, we will choose a new story to read and analyze. One of out team members did not attend. | In last lesson, we choose the article “What’s cooking” and read over the story. We then answered the questions attached to the reading as well as go over some unfamiliar words. | As a group, we started reading a new article, “It’s a Bird’s Life”, and went over any unfamiliar words afterwords. One by one, we defined them and explained each term. We then answered the questions and reviewed each individual paragraphs before ending. |
Since Day 1, all of our group members have been able to challenge ourselves as far as communicating and expressing our ideas in a second language. Every Sunday, our zoom session started at 9:00 and would last approximately 1 hour. During that period, each member from China would take turns reading a chosen article, which we would then go over to analyze and explain any unfamiliar words. During the first couple of weeks, one of our members did not participate, however, both greatly improved their English skills as far is communicating, reading, and so forth. During the first meeting, we introduced ourselves and choose to begin reading a level 5 article and answering the questions attached to the file. It started off a bit rocky and none of us was familiar with the format of using Zoom to communicate with others from around the globe, but we quickly got the hand of it. The following meeting was a reflection of the first, except with a different article. We asked them to read “Plenty of Pancakes” and went over every individual word that they were unfamiliar with or struggled to pronounce. The paper taught us the exact instruction to make a pancake and incorporated the necessary ingredients and some tips for the readers. The next week, our group choose to advance to a level 6 article entitles “A Garden in the Clouds”, which emphasized the importance of trees in our community, and we then continued to explain the story and answer the questions. We choose a similar article during the third week under the same theme and answered the questions after reading over the story “What’s cooking”. Each team member from china took turns reading every paragraph and explain each individual term. The next week, we started off reading a new article “It’s a Birds’ Life”, as usual, which narrated the discoveries made by Charles Darwin during his time on the Gilopocos islands and uncovered the importance of his finding on society from then to now. The following Sunday, we discussed the current events, such as the coronavirus and activities we have been up to during quarantine. We then choose an article under the “Money” category and began to read and understand the information. After reading “Money Matter”, we developed a gradual understanding of the value of money and its history as well as answer the question provided afterwords. During the last meeting, we compared schools in China versus schools in the U.S. and discussed the current events. Overall, each one of our group members definitely gained something from this experience and walked away with something new. Ashley Wang |
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| Team 22 | Monica Lu | Aurora Zheng | Sat. 8:30-9:30 AM | First thirty minutes were ice breakers (introduced themselves) However, connections weren’t very stable for Chinese teammates, and they were a bit shy, so they encouraged them to talk and go straight to the articles. The last 30 minutes they discussed: Soccer Summer(sports level 4) It’s a pretty easy article for the teammates so they get it over with easily and quickly. Cat,Cat,Cat(Animals level 5) They think this article is hard so they just get through the first three paragraphs. HW: read through cat*3 and finish the exercises if have time. We will be discussing about cat*3 next week and reviewing the sports article. Since they think Cat*3 is hard they will discuss this article slowly, and we will be choosing articles that are either level 4 or level 5. |
They finished cat*3 article since two teammates had already finished the exercises of the article. They have a really good understanding of the article, so they go over the rest of article and exercises in the first thirty minutes. Then, they move on to a new article(9 Natural Science-Desert in Bloom), and have four paragraphs left. Next class they will go over the new article and exercises, and pick a level 5 article. | 1. First forty minutes: We continued to discuss about the article “desert in blossom”, and we finished it. Every teammates is fully engaged. 2. Last Twenty minutes: We start a new article “Cooking up”. We just go through the first few paragraphs. We will finish it next week. 3. Next time we will have 15-20 minutes free-talking time to help the teammates improve on speaking. | 1. (First forty min.) We finished the article: cooking up. We also finished the exercises. 2. According to teammates’ parents, we add some times doing free-talking(chatting)on daily lives, books we preferred, and hobbies. 3. Next time we will start to talk about a new article, and also we will do the chatting session. | na | na | |||
| Team 23 | Annabelle Yang | Aurora Zheng | Fri. 9 PM | Introduced themselves, and then planned out hw for next few days. Planned to start with Garden unit and assess the level of difficulty for the students. One of the group members did not show up, so her sister joined and took lead. | They read “By the Light of the Moon” out loud together and discussed the main ideas, vocabulary, and grammar. They also generally discussed gardens and farms, and did a quick in-class writing exercise that Danika and Annabelle will be correcting and giving feedback on at their next class. Next week, they will move forward with the biographies lesson. | Discussed subject-verb agreement and using the correct tenses when we write. We also read “Quick Feet and a Big Heart” together, and discussed using context clues when we read and figuring out how to pronounce words when we read out loud. We also explored the suffix “able” and example sentences with words ending in “able” | This week, we discussed poetry. We talked about how we feel about poetry and what subjects we want to write poems about. We also added new words to our vocabulary, like “diversity” and “audience,” and strategies for reading comprehension (like always supporting our answers with evidence from the text). Additionally, we discussed about the difference between facts and opinions, and subjective and objective perspectives. | team 23 discussed “Water Giants”, from the Natural Science unit. We learned about sentence structure with subjects, verbs, objects, and modifiers, as well as new vocabulary words like “tsunami” and “period”. We talked about how to break down big words, like “approaching” and “disturbances” as we are reading in order to figure out how to pronounce them, and we discussed what makes “Water Giants” an informational text rather than a biography or fiction. For homework, we wrote short paragraphs on natural phenomena that interest us, and Danika and I will provide feedback on those pieces before our next lesson. Next week, we will move forward with the Sea Life unit. | We learned about pink river dolphins and practiced forming and discussing our own opinions about a text. We also really got into the more difficult vocabulary of this week’s reading (words like “vertebrae”, “fused”, and flexibility”), and practiced describing things. For our homework, we will continue that practice by writing a descriptive paragraph as we prepare for our next unit about birds. | As a recap, remember that during our last meeting we talked about birds and learned about John James Audubon, for whom the National Audubon Society is named (and if you want to explore more about them, you can check out their bird guide at https://www.audubon.org/bird-guide). We learned new vocabulary words, like conservation (n, protecting our environment), excursion (n, a trip), and original (adj or n, the first of something).
We also discussed figurative language briefly, because it was mentioned in last week’s homework. To refresh your memory: figurative language is the language we use to describe things more vividly (remember vivid was one of our vocabulary words a couple weeks ago, and means that something is rich, or bright). Basically, it means that it makes our writing and reading more interesting. Some types of figurative language include Hyperbole, which is an exaggerated statement: I am so hungry, I could eat a horse (instead of just saying you’re really hungry) |
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| Team 24 | Ethan He | Aurora Zheng | Sat. 9-10 PM | They introduced themselves and picked these eight topics: Sports, School Life, Sea Life, Natural Science, Cooking, History, Bird and Animal. |
The kids were very great. They arrived on time and rejoined after the forty minutes. Their topic was School Life. They read two articles and went over the questions in class. | The kids were very great. They arrived on time and rejoined after the forty minutes. Our topic was Cooking. We read two articles and went over the questions in class. | The kids were very great. They arrived on time and rejoined after the forty minutes. Our topic was HIstory. We read two articles and went over the questions in class. | The kids were very great. They arrived on time and rejoined after the forty minutes. Our topic was Natural Science. We read two articles and went over the questions in class. | The kids were very great. They arrived on time and rejoined after the forty minutes. Our topic was Bird. We read two articles and went over the questions in class. | |||
| Team 25 | Andy Zhang | Aurora Zheng | Fri. 8/9 PM | Picked Sea life, history, animal, garden, cooking, money, natural science, sports. | Unable to meet, will make it up later | Topic this week was on Gardening. We took turns reading each paragraph and we answered all of the questions. We helped the student when he did not understand what the question was about. We went over the answers afterwards. | n/a | Did slice of sea life passage and answered questions | na | |||
| Team 26 | Alternating each week | Aurora Zheng | Sun. 9-10 AM | Ronald led the group. All of them attended the meeting. They introduced themselves. They will study sports, summer, soccer. They read the passage, asked about the words, re-read the passage, and looked at the questions . | Ruiyang Wu led the meeting | Meeting starts at 8:54 Sunday, March 29 Only Miles has shown up. Doing Art School. Miles is reading it. Move on to the questions. Teaching a word Continuing on the question Finished at 9:43 | Reading play ball Ronald, PengSiyu, and Ruiyang showed up Doing the questions. Helping with the questions Rejoining meeting Continuing where we left of. End the meeting. | Meeting starts at 9:03 People show up late Doing a career day Moving on to the questions Helping with question The meeting ends at 9:54 | Meeting starts at 8:57 Waiting for people to show up Ruiyang shows up. People are arriving late. PengSiyu has shown up. Reading cooking up a tasty Cinco de mayo. Doing the questions The meeting ends at 9:56 |
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| Team 27 | 王锦琪 | Harold Zhang | Sun. | Due to the limited number of members in our group, not everything was finalized. In our meeting, however, we had reviewed which topics to review over, which are: Fitness, Animals, Cooking, School life, Money, Sea Life, and both Natural Sciences. We also review the basic zoom controls and how to share screens. | 3/21 meeting summary: Today we went over the first topic (fitness) and went over 6 stories. I ask everyone to give me their emails so I can send these materials to you all. | We just had a recent meeting, and here is the meeting summary. 3/28 Meeting Summary today we decided to take turns reading the passages and did the questions on the back. The topic we learned about was animals, and due to the limited 40 minute zoom meeting, it was cut short. 3/28 会议摘要 今天我们轮流阅读了文章。我们也回答了文章的问题。我们学了动物，但是因为我们就有40分钟的会议，我们的会议被缩短了。 | 4/5/2020 meeting summary Today we went over the cooking topic, and although there were some internet errors, we made the best of it. We went over some passages with questions, and I assigned people to read the last passages as homework. 4/5/2020 meeting summary(中文） 今天我们学了烹饪。我们有一些网络的问题，但是我们尽力了。我们学了烹饪的题目，我也分配了阅读的故事 | No meeting | 4/18 meeting summary today we finished the study materials for our 4th subject, school life. We all did well, and answered some questions to all of the passages. 4/18 Meeting summary(中文） 今天我们做第四个学科，校运生活。我们都做得很好，还有我们也会打了很多的学科问题。 — -“There are some people who have awesome good luck, with a tiny ray of bad luck, and there are some people with lots of bad luck, with a tiny ray of good luck, like me.” | |||
| Team 28 | Kevin Deng | 邓曙华 (Cathy Deng) | Sat. 8:30-9:30 PM | Introductions, getting to know each other, and introducing ourselves | Read topic Cats | Read topic dams | ||||||
| Team 29 | Andrew Zhang | 邓曙华 (Cathy Deng) | N/A | Introduced ourselves, picked eight subjects, and told the students the plans for the classes | ||||||||
| Team 30 | Shelly Han | 邓曙华 (Cathy Deng) | N/A | Both of China team members weren’t able to make it that day. We introduced ourselves and we planned out what we will do every week and what materials we will go over. | Introducing ourselves briefly, we took turns reading the first passage in Garden, A Backyard Discovery. Asked and answered questions and discussed vocabulary. One China team member was very bright and we helped him with anything he didn’t understand. The other China team member may have had some internet issues, trying to fix | We read and discussed the last two passages of the first lesson (Garden). We also went over any questions and vocabulary together and everyone was on task and productive. For next week, we plan to begin the second lesson, Biography, and hopefully read the first two or three passages! | great, as usual! Now, we are completely done with all the passages in the first two lessons, Garden and Biography, and we’ve read the first passage of the third lesson, Poetry. Next week, our goal is to finish lesson 3 and start reading passages from lesson 4. | finish reading the passages in lesson 3, Poetry, and begin lesson 4, Natural Science. | ||||
| Team 31 | Cathy Deng | 邓曙华 (Cathy Deng) | Sat. 9-10 PM | ⁃ 杨紫彤 absent, brief introductions, read articles from the topic Garden and fix mispronunciation. Discussed summary, setting, and in-depth thoughts on the story. ⁃ Struggled a little bit on the “th” sound, sometimes is replaced with the “d” sound. Could not recognize a few complex words, such as choreographer and saucer ⁃ Next Week: SInce one of the students did not come to class, we save icebreakers and through introductions for the next session, will decide topics together⁃ |
⁃ introductions, chose a few interested topics, US team members will fill in all the other topics ⁃ one student is often unfocused and sidetracked, cannot answer basic questions, will not respond to Chinese of English, other Chinese member had to help teach her since she wouldn’t listen, is trying to figure out the complications ⁃ Next Week: Continue lessons in poetry as the poetry material was about ecology, go over homework on perfect pancakes recipe | ⁃ 杨紫彤 absent again, read both passages in sea life from the original study materials, although the first passage in sea life was not related to sea life, pretty good understandings, and excellent summaries ⁃ Read Busy, Busy Bees for Natural Sciences, good understanding off most nonfiction texts now, other Chinese team member was not here to we had a quicker paced, more personalized session, no internet issues with this students, homework is the exercise attached to the file Busy Busy Bees for Busy, Busy Bees ⁃ Next Week: Continue lessons in Natural Sciences, go over this week and last week’s homework | Both Chinese students absent | 杨紫彤 (Annie) absent, read through Art School and Brainstorming Book Fair from school life and gave summaries and setting. Sissy had internet connection issues toward the end so she could hear us but her screen was frozen and we could only hear choppy parts of her audio, but we could hear each other otherwise. | session cancelled | session cancelled | Annie absent, read articles in Animals about cats, Cat Power and Cats, Cats, Cats.
A few pronunciation errors, other than that, summaries are good, good comprehension. |
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| Team 32 | Matthew Luo | 邓曙华 (Cathy Deng) | Introduced themselves, asking what they liked during the session. Next time, they will start reading the materials in Garden. | We started and finished reading the passage, The Best Hoofer of All. The reading went pretty smoothly. Next time, we will continue reading other materials within Garden. | read through the BigFeetandaBigHeart on the 28th. The reading went pretty smooth, though there are areas for improvement. | The meeting on Saturday started later than usual, because of the update on Zoom’s security. We went over the two articles in the 3rd folder, Poetry. The reading went well, although one twin was better with the pronunciation of the words. | We went over the Busy, Busy Bees passage in the nature folder. Both twins read well. | We read the Collecting Change article. The reading went well. There were a few consonants that were difficult to say, but we got through to the end. We had some time at the end, so Max showed his coin collection | session cancelled | went over A Bird Excursion on the zoom meeting on Saturday. The reading was fairly well. | ||
| Team 33 | Cathy Yang | Cathy Yang | Sat. 7:30-8:30 PM | Introduced ourselves, some difficulty with connection, decided on a couple topics. | We worked on an article from the history topic titled “Pyramid Power” and took turns reading aloud. Went through some difficult vocabulary to pronounce, and then we discussed the questions on the page following the article, with each of the students taking turns answering questions. Next meeting we will start reading “Catching a Wave” in the topic of natural science. | We worked through the article “Catching a Wave” wih the students taking turns reading. Went through some difficult vocabulary to pronounce, and discussed some questions from both the reading skills portion and vocabulary skills portion. Assigned the rest of the questions not covered in class as homework, which we will discuss next meeting. | We went over the questions from the article “Catching a Wave” from the previous week, and then read the article “Kit Peak National Observatory,” We went through a few more difficult word to pronounce and were able to get through all of the questions. | We reviewed last week’s article, “Kitt Peak National Observatory,” and then we read “The Mega Museum.” We went through a couple difficult words to pronounce, and they were able to answer all of the questions. | One student arrived to the meeting about 30 minutes late, so we ended up going over the article twice, once for each student. With each student, we reviewed last week’s article, “The Mega Museum,” and then went on to read “A Desert in Bloom.” Each of the students were able to answer the questions fairly well. | Reviewed the article, “A Desert in Bloom” and then went on to read the article “Busy, Busy Bees.” Had the students take turns reading the article aloud, and then finish the questions following the article. Was level 5 and seemed a little too easy, so we went on to read a level 6 article, whcih we will finish doing the questions over next week. | We finished the article from last week, and then we encouraged everyone to converse in English. We talked about our current lives with school, and some other topics as well. | |
| Team 34 | Leo Hu | Cathy Yang | Introduction and got to know each other. The students each chose two topics to focus on for future sessions. | New student did an introduction, and gave some homework to complete after the lesson to be reviewed in the next lesson. | Read the 2 articles in the money folder and gave the students some review practices on the articles read. | Had some problems with zoom on Saturday, but worked them out on Sunday. Everything else was normal. | Everything was normal. | Did not meet this week since everyone was busy. | Everything went well as normal. | |||
| Team 35 | Neal Zeng | Cathy Yang | Introductions and chose 8 topics Garden: a Backyard Discovery, Biography: Quick feet and a big heart, Natural science: blocking water, Sea life: river dolphins, History: 8 wonders of the world, Natural science: moon mystery, Birds: Its a birds life, and Poetry: where the poetry begins | Read and answered the questions for the story “Quick Feet and a Big Heart”, and they understood everything except the concept of suffixes. | Read “the Eighth Wonder of the World”. Students had some difficulty comprehending the passage, and were unable to answer some of the questions – passage was probably too difficult | Did the article “River Dolphins” which was level 5, and the students seemed to do quite well. | Read “A Backyard Discovery” from the garden topic. Everything was easy to understand for the students except the concept of idioms. | Did the article “A Bird’s Life” which was easy to understand for the students, and was the right level of difficulty. | Did natural science: “Blocking Water” this week. Even though it was grade 6, the students were able to easily understand it and answer the questions. | |||
| Team 36 | Cathy Yang | N/A | Introduced themselves and became familiar with the zoom software functions. Tried out the reading difficulty of each level and chose the first article as well as the topics for the next few weeks. U.S. students read aloud while Chinese students read along silently to understand the article. | Read the passage “Career day”, read it out loud to the students a few times, then defined unknown words, and the students asked questions on anything they were confused about. In the end, everyone took turns reading the passage together. | Read the story: “Cooking up a Tasty Cinco de Mayo.” Read it outloud to the students while they followed along, talked about its summary and did the questions on the back. Decided on a new strategy of reading: to choose an article a few days before the group meeting, everyone will read it and think about their own opinions on the article, then everyone can share and discuss it during the meeting. | First reviewed what was learned last meeting. Read the article “Soccer Summer” and went over a summary of each paragraph. Did a role play twice and then talked about personal summer camp experiences. Decided on an article to read for next week. | Reviewed a little about what was read last time and then started on new article. Read silently on the article, then asked and answered questions. Discussed the article and explained the summary | Did not meet due to zoom problems | Only 沁竹 and Cathy Wang attended the meeting. The meeting was a little over 40 minutes, read and discussed the article “Quick Feet and Big Heart” First both read silently, and then read out loud to the student. Did the role play. Discussed the unknown words and confusing part | Only Cathy Wang and qingzhu attended last week’s meeting. The meeting lasted for 40 minutes. Chatted and read in turns about a diving article, then discussed some confusing parts in this article and came up with a summary of this article. | ||
| Team 37 | Angelika Wang | Cathy Yang | Sat. 9:00 PM | Icebreakers and got to know each other. Started the first topic (history), starting out with level 6 (A slice of sea island) which seems like a good fit. Chose 8 topics for 8 classes (topics: 14, 12, 3, 10, 8, 7, 9, 13) and assigned a bit of homework (finish reading and answer the questions). | Went over last weeks homework which was to finish the questions related to the article “A Slice of Sea Island,” and started reading the article “Cooking Up” as a group this week. So far, level 5 seems like a good fit for the students, they were able to understand the article, but it was still a bit challenging. This week, we assigned them some homework which was to finish reading the article “Cooking Up” and answer the questions and then preview next class’s article, “Poetry Slam.” | Reviewed answers for last week’s homework for the article “Cooking Up” and finished reading the article “Poetry Slam” as a group, making sure the students weren’t unsure about any parts of the article. The article seemed a bit easy so planning to try a level 6 next week. Assigned the students some homework which was to answer the questions for “Poetry Slam” and then preview next class’s article, “It Is All Academy.” | Reviewed answers for last week’s homework “Poetry Slam” and previewed next week’s article “It’s All Academy.”Chatted a bit like in English for practice and for fun at the start, but not everyone could join in because of internet and microphone issues. Came up with the idea that towards the end of the “semester” to help the students write their own article and questions and to go over. | Went over last weeks homework and finished going over next week’s article (Play Ball). Learned a bit about each other when talking about the sports that each played to lead into the “Play Ball” article. For homework, the students were assigned to complete the questions for the article “Money In the Bank”. | Went over last weeks homework and finished going over next week’s article, “Money in the Bank.” For homework, they were assigned to complete the questions for the article “Dessert in Bloom.” Next week, we’ll start the in class project where they will try to write their own article. | Went over last weeks homework and finished going over next week’s article (Dessert in Bloom) and are to finish the questions. Plan to read their articles that they wrote themselves next week. | Went over “A Dessert in Bloom” questions and read Deer’s article that she had to write herself and answered the questions that she wrote to go along with her articles. It was surprisingly well written, grammatically correct, well formatted, and fluid. There were a few spots that were iffy, but they were minor mistakes. But we ran out of time to read Luellen’s article. | |
| Team 38 | Daniel Paechtner | Cathy Yang | Sat. 8 AM | Saturday morning (8am), team had 18mins meeting between China 黄秉鑫，US Daniel Paechtner (Team leader) Introduced themselves to each other and discussed the content of the next lesson. |
Technical difficulties using zoom, so had to use WeChat. Read the article “Soccer Summer” and answered some questions, and then taught thes tudent how to properly introduce himself. | Again the Chinese student had trouble with using ZOOM even after trying many times, so had to use WeChat. Taught the student a new article “Play Ball” and corrected his pronunciation and taught some new words in 40min. | Again, the Chinese student had a ZOOM problem. Helped the student fix it on March 31, but student’s ZOOM was bad again when starting class on 5th of April, so had to talk by WeChat. Read and learned from the article “Quick Feet and Big Heart” and talked about the weather and school conditions. Was able to answer a lot of the student’squestions. | The Chinese student had Chinese internet courses he could not attend the meeting. Decided to have two courses for him next Sunday, since there was no meeting this week. | Prepared two courses for Chinese student, and learned the 2 articles. Finished the article “Future Career” but the student had some trouble with level 5’s articles, and did not know some basic vocab in that article, will have change back to 4 level for the student next week. Spent 1 hour in total. Finished all 4 level articles, so had to ask teacher to offer more 4 level articles | Trouble with zoom, so had to use WeChat. Learned the article “Birthday Breakfast” and explained to meaning of the article to the student. Student learned some new vocabulary words. Meeting was 40 minutes in total. | Had last course at 8 am on Tuesday this week. Taught student the article “A Morning in Maine” for aboout 30mins. Learned more vocabulary and sentences. |