English on the Board
I often find, at the end of the lesson, that there are some amazing, surprising and occasionally very funny things written on my board. I'd like to share a few of these here.
Second Grade:
1. Inform
2. Change the way people think about something
3. Cause people to take action
4. Entertain
Here we were talking about the purposes for speeches.
Tone
Purpose
Here we were talking about things to look for in a story or poem.
Masons
Coat of Arms
Foot and Serpent
Death
The students were studying "The Cask of Amontillado" and so we discussed a few things that were in the story.
Third Grade:
Heroin
The third grade students are doing a public service announcement this term, so we studied a lot of different examples of public service announcements, one of which was an anti-drug PSA about heroin.
First Grade:
16:45 train
Kurashiki - Okayama
biased
mango
To be completely honest, I no longer recall what the bit about the train was. However, our story for that week was a news article about a report, paid for by video game developers, that encouraged video games to be used educationally in schools. So we talked about biases. My example was a guy who grows mangoes who pays for a report that says mangoes are good for our health.
We also discussed:
1. Inform
2. Change the way people think about something
3. Cause people to take action
4. Entertain
... purposes for giving a speech or writing an essay.
Third Grade:
Message: smoking is bad for our health.
Side stream, second hand smoking
Purpose: Cause people not to smoke.
Where: Cafeteria.
Who:
*** - customer
*** - camera
*** - smoke fx
*** - maid
*** - smoke fx
*** - older sister
*** - younger sister
*** - smoke fx
*** - customer
Here we were making plans for our anti-smoking PSA.
Second Grade:
allegory
fable
Here, we were talking about different kinds of stories. However, I no longer recall the actual topic of our conversation.
First Grade:
Yankee
John Bull
John Cheese
Jan Kees
Here we were talking about the origin of the word "Yankee". Now I know that wikipedia does not agree with the "John Cheese" theory. However, my source is the Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, so I think that's slightly more reliable than wikipedia.
Third Grade:
humuhumunukunukuapua'a
dog collar
scholarship
coyote
In third grade, we watched "High School Musical 3" with English subtitles, and these words came up in the movie.
Second Grade:
Our board was filled with words, but here are a few of my favorites:
pirate
parrot
Jolly Roger (this was MY word, but all the others are from the students)
scurvy
bad personal hygiene
peg-leg
hook
eye patch
rum
Next week, in second grade, we're going to be reading an article on Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean that are attacking ships near Indonesia. So we talked today about some classic pirate stereotypes and myths.
Among my favorite topics today was that the pirates had eye patches, not to cover blind eyes or empty sockets, but so that they could see better when they went below-decks of a ship during an attack (flipping up the eye-patch.
We also talked about sea-legs vs. land-legs, and how weeks and months at sea would leave the sailors staggering on dry land for a few days, leading to the reputation of sailors as a bunch of drunks.
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Date: 2009⁄02⁄13 18:09｜Permalink｜Author：nelp