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HERE ARE THE NEW ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS COMING WEEK: FEB. 4 - 11:

EN 6410 TESOL Methods Course:

Again, rather than writing/typing up papers about the assignments below, I would like you to start new "topic-trails" by posting and responding to one another's "Discussion Posts about what you will be reading below. Read and scan over everything, but don't feel like you have to write discussion posts about everything you will read. Identify yourself in some way in your post, so I can see how you're doing. Obviously, I'm way behind. I'm going to start reading and responding to this past week's old Discussion Posts you've written: wow...131 and counting so far! (but I'll try to keep up with the new ones for this coming week too...guess I can't take that "Happy Time" bus to Wendover this weekend). Here's the new work:

1) Go to the TESOL professional organization's home page--Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: [] Check out our good-looking President, Mark S. Algren, then click on and read over the following items you will find in that top box:
 * About TESOL
 * TESOL's Mission & Values
 * TESOL Stories (interesting personal stories by ESL teachers)

2) Go to the following websites and consider how you think the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Amendments, and Supreme Court/Federal laws apply to the education of English language learners in our state and country:

1776: “…Certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”: The Declaration of Independence: [] 1791 & 1868: U.S. Constitution: 5th Amendment (Bill of Rights, 1791) and 14th Amendment (1868): [] 1954: U.S. Supreme court, Brown v. Board of Education: [|http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html] 1974: U.S. Supreme Court, Lau v. Nichols: [] = 1981: United States District Court, Texas, Castañeda v. Pickard: [] = 1982: U.S. Supreme Court, Plyler vs. Doe: [] 2002 (reauthorized) No Child Left Behind: []

3) In __The Circuit__, compare the stories in the next two chapters: "Christmas Gift" and "Death Forgiven." Read Gebhard's Chapter 5 about classroom management and think about his approach to this important area compared to your own current or past experiences as a student or teacher. Tim Conrad tconrad@weber.edu Cell: 801-564-5944