Summer+2013

=Summer 2013 Projects=

The Oceanside Harbor Clean-up, "The Day After Mess" July 5, 2013
Once again Angela Webster, beginning level morning teacher, led the charge of cleaning up the beach with a group of volunteer NCESL students. Twenty-two MiraCosta students from the ABE/HS and ESL classes at the Community Learning Center (CLC) joined ESL instructor, Angela Webster, in helping to keep our beach and harbor clean. These dedicated volunteers met at the CLC at 8:30 am on July 5 and carpooled to the Oceanside Harbor site where they helped pick up trash from 9 am - 11:00 am. Thank you to all who helped, and to those who were not with us, we hope you will join us in the annual fall beach clean-up that will take place in September.

VESL Writing
In VESL Class, Marcel Castillo graciously stepped in to take over the class when Jose Lopez-Mercedes got a fulltime position (Congrats, Jose!). Marcel had students work on a mini writing task, published here:

Level 7 Evening Class
In reviewing the major verb tenses (present continuous, simple present, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, and future), students in Kristi Reyes' class used this grammar in composing their "Four Worlds Autobiographies," (see the prompt here: ), writing paragraphs compiled into essays about their lives at a point in the past (usually before they immigrated to the USA), their lives at the current time, predicting their lives in 10 - 20 years from now, and imagining what they will be remembered for and what they will have accomplished by the time they are gone from this world (last part based on the essay "What I Have Lived For" by Bertrand Russell). See students' writing, compiled in this magazine:

Students additionally learned idioms related to each week's theme (e.g., materialism, possessions, memory, turning points, life experiences, growing old, healthy living, the future) and completed a final pair or small group project in which they chose idioms they had learned or found others and wrote dialogs to demonstrate the meanings and use of the idioms. See, for example: