Paper trail
25 February 2009
A partial list of handouts I have made for my students:
· bilingual version of Barack Obama’s presidential victory speech in Chicago.
· brass family of instruments
· fake newspaper, The Boston Post, with banner headlines, editorial cartoons, the score of the Real Madrid game, & a weather report.
· lyrics to Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald’s “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.”
· lyrics to “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, “Silent Night”, and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
· mix & match descriptions of people including John McCain, Veronica Mars, & James Bond.
· New York Times weather reports for Boston, Michigan, Ojai, & Bedmar.
· questionnaire (place travelled, favorite bands, career aspirations, preferred food for special occasions)
· states of matter: “Is a chair liquid?”
· story of first Thanksgiving (featuring: Mayflower etching, cartoon turkeys, graph of Pilgrim deaths during first winter)
· the 8 planets. (match the picture to the description)
· two mixed-up stories, “Charlie the Astronaut Goes to the Zoo” & “The Adventure of Charlie the Outdoorsman”
· weekly English news headlines, such as: “Somali Pirates Continue Attacks.”
26 February 2009 at 3:06 am
poetry is the appreciation of language.
give them some verse.
26 February 2009 at 5:33 pm
interesting that your list of “people” includes two people who are not, in fact, people.
27 February 2009 at 12:23 am
I like the list, I must say. I have more to add about the Katrina section of your textbbook (and about the textbook)— thanks for posting the photo. When you get a chance, it would be great to hear about what your job entails. From what you say, you seem to serve as a “live” native speaker, going from class to class. It reminds me a bit of Bruce Feiler’s work in a Japanese school, described in Learning to Bow.
28 February 2009 at 7:54 pm
Cordelia,
I’m working on a much longer education essay that’ll hopefully make that a little clearer within the next week.
Ironically, for a collection of writings about teaching in Spain, I haven’t written all that much about teaching – I think it felt odd to write (make definitive) something I felt like I was still learning.
In the archives, “Olives & Pedagogy” might clarify some things too.
28 February 2009 at 8:56 pm
Jim,
I seem to be finding myself in need of a typewriter,
for forms that are not digitalized,
and I’d like your advice on buying one.