[ola] Re: My favorite thing...
- From: "Jody Soberon" <JodySo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:57:09 -0800
Daniel,
That is an awesome stream of thought on following a progression! It
seems so very much clearer to me now. Very exciting!
Thanks so much for sharing,
Jody
Foreign Languages
Brookings Harbor High School
>>> Call Daniel <dcall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/15/2014 6:03 PM >>>
My pleasure…
I hooked the class with the attached photo of a homeless man living in
a hollowed out grave. Students started off describing what they saw in
the picture: grass, cemetery (they knew this one from Day of the Dead
discussions), man, candle, light, etc. We transitioned , then the next
step was to tell them that the man lives in the grave, then ask them to
speculate as to why? Some ideas that came out: he works at the
cemetery, he is crazy, he doesn’t have a house. I had them read the
subtitle on the website, explaining that he has no home, and at this
point, their questions began: how do you say “poor”? “homeless”?
“shelter”? In one class, I followed their interest in poverty. We
worked through paired speaking and notebook writing questions such as
“Why are some people poor?” and “One effect of being poor is…”
One student circumlocuted “government” and another “welfare.” From
there, I elicited responses to “Why do people receive welfare?”
(recycling vocab: poor, no money, big family, one parent, health, sick,
etc.) When I saw that some students began to narrow their eyes, I knew I
was close to a nerve, so I next asked them to write, “Are there people
who shouldn’t receive welfare?” and respond.
This was a pretty intense day, and I don’t always follow such serious
progressions, but what is certain to me is that OWL has enabled my
students to engage in this kind of dialogue in the target language in
first year. Prior to this year, I never would have been able to pull
off something like this in Spanish 1.
Apologies for the stream of consciousness writing style.
Dan Call
From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Heather Pineault
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:23 PM
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] Re: My favorite thing...
Dan - Sounds like a great discussion. Was this your level 1s this
year? Can you give us more info about what that looked like in terms of
the discussion? I would LOVE to get there with my kids, but they don't
have the vocab to discuss homelessness, or debate the need for welfare.
Could you describe what the class looked like in terms of the
conversation? I am really interested in having more relevant and
meaningful conversations, so I'd appreciate any ideas!
Thanks!
Heather
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Call Daniel <dcall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Right now one of my favorite things is that last year after break, my
1st year classes were practicing how to ask for and tell the time.
Yesterday, after hooking students with a picture of a homeless man, one
of my classes ended up talking about causes of homelessness, another
ended up debating the need for welfare, another describing family
members who are struggling with poverty. It was so rewarding!
Dan
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Behalf Of Martin Kathryn
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:33 AM
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] Re: My favorite thing...
…tengo envidia….
From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Calysta Phillips
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:14 AM
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] Re: My favorite thing...
What I love is dancing Bachata late night with the car doors wide open
and the music blaring in a Medford parking lot with Darcy..... Hey,
training's part of the experience, right? Te quiero mujer!!!! Calysta
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Ashley Uyaguari
<auyaguari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...is that they leave class and I can still hear them speaking Spanish
in the hallway on their way to the next destination! Even after last
block on Friday.
--
Ashley Uyaguari
Spanish Teacher 6/7/8
Team Curriculum Coordinator
Innovation Academy Charter School
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
978-649-0432 x3301 ( tel:978-649-0432%20x3301 )
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