| Day/Date | Activities |
| T 6/25 | Go over syllabus, course requirements, book and packet, Learning center software. Diagnostic Test (book): structure and reading sections. Pretest: Listening section. HW: 1) Read pp. 1-7; 2) Study portfolio description, requirements; 3) Study listening strategies pp. 29-31, 82-83, 98-99. |
| Th 6/27
(long class) |
Review whole-test strategies pp. 1-7, listening strategies pp. 29-31, 82-83, 98-99. Diagnostic test: Listening section. Practice analyzing, commenting on listening diagnostic. Pretest: structure and reading sections. HW: 1) Start portfolios; 2) ANalyze, comment on structure and reading diagnostics; 3) Study structure and reading stategies pp. 120-122, 242-246. |
| T 7/2 | Review listening strategies (see 6/27); Practice predicting, eliminating answers with L22 p. 68, L30 p. 78. Review structure strategies pp. 120-122. Packet structure test A--score and analyze (comment if time). Review reading strategies pp. 242-246. HW: 1) Comment on Structure Test A; 2) Do structure minitests S16, S24, S25, S37; 3) Do as needed S1-S37; 4) Do Packet Structure Tests B and C--score, analyze and comment; 5) Do Packet Reading Tests A and B--score, analyze, and comment. |
| Th 7/4 | No class--Independence Day holiday |
| T 7/9 | Listening practice with Minitests L36 p. 87, L42 p. 93, and L46 p. 96. Review reading strategies; Reading practice with Minitests R21 p. 286 and R25 p. 296. Portfolio requirement review. If time, class practice with word form analysis of structure questions (handout). HW: 1) Packet Structure Test D--score, analyze, and comment; 2) As needed, L1-L46, R1-R25. |
| Th 7/11
(long class) |
In-class PRACTICE TEST 1 (BOOK) p. 377. HW: 1) Score, analyze, and comment on Practice Test 1; 2) Reflective Essay #1; 3) Read pp. 184-185, 187-189 (clauses, noun clauses). |
| T 7/16 | Reflective Essay #1 due. In-class practice with finding main ideas (handout). Reading practice with details, restatements, and inferences--Minitests R36 p. 319 (details and restatements) and R42 p. 334 (inferences). Structure practice with Minitests S52 p. 182 (word form, word choice) and S61 (noun clauses). HW: 1) Packet Reading Test C--score, analyze, comment; 2) As needed, R1-R42, S1-S60. |
| Th 7/18 | Listening practice with Minitests L51 p. 101 (topics), L57 p. p. 107 (details), L61 p. 110 (inferences). Reading section practice test R43 p. 337. HW: 1) Packet Reading Tests D, E; 2) Read pp. 194-197, 201-202 (adjective clauses); 3) As needed R1-R43, L1-L61, S1-S61. |
| T 7/23 | L62--Listening Comprehension section Practice Test (book) p. 112. Minitest S72 p. 205 (adj. clauses). Word form/function practice with templates (handout). HW: Read pp. 207-211, 214-216, 221-222, 225-226, 228-229, 232; 2) Packet Structure Test E--score, analyze, comment; 3) Analyze and comment on L62; 4) Review as needed. |
| Th 7/25 | Structure Minitests S82 p. 219 (adverb clauses), S98 p. 233 (comparing, parallel structures, prepositional phrases, redundancies). Structure Section Practice Test S99 p. 235. Packet Reading Test F. HW: 1) Analyze, comment on S99 and Reading Test F; 2) Read "Practice with analyzing essays" p. 369; 3) Do W23-W24; 4) Read "Practice with answering essay questions" pp. 372-374; 5) Exercises as needed. |
| T 7/30 | Packet Structure Test F. Analysis of TWE question types (handout); practice brainstorming content for TWEs. HW: 1) Analyze, comment on Structure Test F; 2) Other practice as needed. |
| Th 8/1
(long class) |
Book Practice Test 2 p. 401. HW: Analyze, comment on Practice Test 2. |
| T 8/6
(long class) |
In-class practice test 2 (handout). HW: 1)REFLECTIVE ESSAY #2, PORTFOLIOS DUE; 2) practice as needed. |
| Th 8/8
(long class) |
REFLECTIVE ESSAY #2 DUE WITH PORTFOLIOS. Post-Test. |
| T or W
8/13 or 14 |
No class--pick up portfolios by arrangement. |