Although I have not been in this blogging hiatus for very long, already some new projects are receiving more of my time, energy and attention. Here are some things I’m doing:
- reading How Fiction Works by James Wood
- making a life-sized poster of the human form complete with construction paper internal organs
- contributing to three committees at work: the green committee, the newsletter committee and the “teach teachers how to blog” committee
Differentiating lessons for a multi-level class is time-consuming, but I love doing it. I know I spend three, four, maybe five times longer on lesson planning than do my coworkers, but I choose to. I am building an arsenal of materials and aids that I can keep forever. Lamination will help preserve them.
Here is a picture of my male body poster. I call him Sam. He will get laminated this weekend.
And here are some students using the little labels to drill each other on the human body vocabulary. I made three colours of body part labels: blue for my literacy student, yellow for the intermediate students and green for the advanced students. They broke off into homogeneous groups to quiz each other while a T.A. took Carl out for one-on-one work. Next week I will bring in Sam and Samantha so we can divide into two teams (an equal number of advanced and intermediate students on each team) to stick the labels in the correct places on the posters. I hope it will be a fun game.
The Samantha poster will show the pancreas, kidneys and a few other things not showing on the Sam poster.
Very lifelike. My insides actually look exactly like that.
Just peeked in by chance and look what I find. Syl with a new job after a long hiatius not of his choosing; and you and Sam in the raw! LOL
Great lessons. Will Samantha have girly inside parts named as well?
Lynn, Since there are devout Muslims in my class, I will not teach the private parts in a co-ed setting. A man will take the men aside to teach the names of their reproductive organs and I will take aside the one female student to do the same. K
Oops I meant YOU WITH Sam…not you in the raw!!! LOL
clever way to discuss the body. do you celebrate Thanksgiving up there. I wonder if you miss it. All that good food. be well, suki ps you do not need to answer the question, i am just pondering rhetorically.
Suki, But what if I can’t resist a question, rhetorical or not? We have our turkey dinners on the second Monday in October. I do not miss the parades or watching men fall asleep on sofas watching football. ;) K