Sunday, November 27, 2022

GED Study Plan and Tutoring

Hire me for one on one GED test prep for social studies, Language Arts. and Science through Wyzant (In person or online). 

https://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/teacherKathyDenver

         Language Arts     Social Studies Science

Tutoring Plan Language Arts: Grammar

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


  1. Main Idea/Theme

  2. Development

  3. Language Use

  4. Structure: Common Transition Words

  5. Author’s Purpose + POV: Critical, Neutral, Rheiotorical Techniques: analogy + repetition

  6. Evaluation

  7. Comparison

  8. Grammar



  1. 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:

  1. What does the author want readers to do or think after they read this?

  2. Who is the intended audience?

  3. What is the author’s main point?

  4. How and how well is the point supported?

  5. Does the author have an obvious bias?

  6. What assumptions does the author make?

  7. What is the author’s tone?

  8. Is the author’s reasoning logical?

  9. Is the piece complete, or does it have unanswered questions?

  10. 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:



  • 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:

  1. If America was founded on religious freedom, then how to explain the treatment of Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer?

  2. How are the Abolitionist Movement and Women’s Rights Movement related?

  3. 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


8. WW2 and the Cold War

Vocabulary (Quizlet)


9. Black Revolt and Civil Right

Vocabulary (Quizlet) Videos: Crash Course 39, Crash Course 228

10.  Vietnam (War)


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