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Tutoring Plan Language Arts: GrammarLanguage Arts Social Studies Science
Lesson 1:Main Idea + Sentence structure
Lesson 2:Complex Sentences +
Lesson 3: Commonly Confused Words +Main Idea Poetry
Lesson 4: Irregular Verbs (Past Tense) + Social Studies Test
Lesson 5: Modifiers + Science Test
Lesson 6: Dangling Modifiers + Practice Q
Lesson 7: Stacked Modifiers
Lesson 8:
Lesson 9:
Lesson 10:
REASONING THE LANGUAGE ARTS (RLA) Reading 150 minutes
95 Min: Reading + Language
10 min break
45 minutes Ext. Response Essay
*mostly Non-Fiction
25% literary
6-8 pages of up to 900 words each
Summarize material, find reasoning flaws, make inferences
CCSS: Common Core State Standards
Development
Language Use
Structure: Common Transition Words
Author’s Purpose + POV: Critical, Neutral, Rheiotorical Techniques: analogy + repetition
Evaluation
Comparison
Main Idea/Theme
https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingmainidea.htm
https://www.varsitytutors.com/ged_language_arts_rla-help/identifying-main-ide
Questions to Ask as you Read Informational texts:
What does the author want readers to do or think after they read this?
Who is the intended audience?
What is the author’s main point?
How and how well is the point supported?
Does the author have an obvious bias?
What assumptions does the author make?
What is the author’s tone?
Is the author’s reasoning logical?
Is the piece complete, or does it have unanswered questions?
Are the language and sentence structure appropriate for the audience and for the time in which the author was writing?
https://englishstudyonline.org/commonly-confused-words/
Subject Verb Agreement; Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbFVN4ABsE&ab_channel=EnglishAce
https://gedeno.com/subject-verb-agreement-practice/
https://www.varsitytutors.com/ged_language_arts_rla-help/subject-verb-agreement
Grammar
Sentence structure
SCIENCE
GED Science Test
Time Limit: 90 minutes
Test parameters: Life Science (40%) Physical Science (40%) Earth and Space Science (20%)
https://www.testpreptoolkit.com/free-ged-science-practice-test
https://www.testpreptoolkit.com/ged-science-practice-questions
https://www.testpreptoolkit.com/ged-science-practice-test-1 #11
The Science GED test will check whether you can do these things:
Analyze and explain textual scientific presentations.
Determine the meaning of symbols, terms, and phrases in a scientific presentation.
Analyze and explain non-textual scientific presentations.
Comprehend and apply scientific models, theories, and processes.
Use formulas from scientific theories.
Identify sources and causes of error.
Change the design of an investigation to correct an error.
Identify and refine hypotheses for scientific investigations.
Identify the strength and weaknesses of one or more scientific investigation designs.
Design a scientific experiment.
Identify and interpret independent and dependent variables in scientific experiments.
Cite specific textual evidence to support a finding or conclusion.
Reason from information or evidence to a conclusion.
Make a prediction based on data or evidence.
Use sampling techniques to answer scientific questions.
Check whether a conclusion or theory is supported or challenged by data or evidence.
Check findings, conclusions or theories.
Express scientific information or findings using visuals.
Express scientific information or findings using numbers or symbols.
Express scientific information or findings in words.
Describe a data set through statistics.
Use counting and permutations to solve scientific problems.
Determine the probability of events.
Resources: Textbook: Focus on Life Science
Social Studies
GED Social Studies Test: Time Limit: 70 minutes
Test parameters: Civics and Government (50%), United States History (20%), Economics (15%), Geography and the World (15%)
A Checklist of What You Need to Know to Pass the GED Social Studies Test
** Civics and Government is 50% of the SS Test, so you need to know ALL of the concepts: (write in your notebook)
Types of governments today and in history: direct democracy, representative democracy, parliamentary democracy, presidential democracy, monarchy, and others.
The basis for our constitutional democracy: natural rights, popular sovereignty and consent of the governed, constitutionalism, majority rule, and minority rights, checks and balances, separation of powers, rule of law, individual rights, Federalism.
The U.S. Government, design and structure: authority of three branches, individual positions (president, speaker of the House, cabinet members, etc.), federal and state powers, amendment process, departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
Rights and responsibilities of the individual: Bill of Rights, personal and civil liberties.
GED Social Studies RESOURCES:
Video Channels: Crash Course US History (48 videos)
Free textbooks:
Citizenship (11 Chapter free pdf + audio files)
US History (free pdf _ audio files)
Themes:
1. Early US History: 13 Colonies: 13 Colonies watch introduction (The History of Colonial America) about NE, Middle and Southern Colonies: Describe each The Thirteen Colonies
(Crash Course #2), Who Came to the New World (Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers), what did they bring? (Crash Course #4)
Two Famous Colonies: Roanoke and Jamestown,Lost Colony of Roanoke
Jamestown Settlement compare both using a Venn Diagram
The Salem Witch Trials, extra Videos: Crash Course US History #4
Women's Roles, Slavery Vocabulary: (Quizlet)
2. Revolutionary War:
Revolutionary War Begins Battle of Lexington and Concord, Women during the War , Events in Moses Grandy's Life, Moses Grady's Life as a Slave, Not Really a Tea Party,Patriots and Tories,
Videos: Crash Course #28, Oversimplified Parts 1 and Part 2
3. The Women of Early America (handout + Quizlet) Videos: Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet,
Sojourner Truth, Crash Course #16, #31
Learning Questions:
If America was founded on religious freedom, then how to explain the treatment of Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer?
How are the Abolitionist Movement and Women’s Rights Movement related?
Explain how the unequal treatment of black women means women do not have equal rights.
Project: Choose one important woman from Early America and write a report about her.
4. The Trail of Tears: Crash Course #14
5.Slavery and Emancipation (Handout + Quizlet
Videos: Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, Emancipation, the Civil War Part 1, )
6. The Gilded Age (Post-Civil War Reconstruction to the 1890s or)
Vocabulary: Quizlet American Imperialism: Video
7. World War 1
Vocabulary (Quizlet)
9. Black Revolt and Civil Right”
Vocabulary (Quizlet) Videos: Crash Course 39, Crash Course 228
10. Vietnam (War)
