Nearly all of what I'm about to tell you happened. The rest is
lies wishful thinking. See if you can tell the truth from the...rest.
- I collaborated with 2 of my co-workers to design a culminating poster project for students to work on today.
- All three classes watched an excellent, up-to-date, relevant, and informative video about what Cinco de Mayo really is.
- Students took notes on the key words provided for as they watched the video.
- Students gathered more information from the internet to enrich their video experience and find visuals for their posters.
- Students worked in pairs to put together attractive and informative posters.
- All warnings that tequila-corona-tecate-dosequis-margaritas-modelo-and-all-other-alcoholic-beverages were not to be included were heeded.
- Spanish I students incorporated Spanish vocabulary words into their posters and Spanish II incorporated grammatically correct commands relating to the day and its true meaning.
- The best three posters from each course will be displayed in the cafeteria and earn the winners 5 points on a test.
- Students were so pleased at the chance to watch a video and do something artsy, they didn't even mind not having a fiesta.
- Students worked so efficiently that their projects were finished by the end of each period.
- True--Although individually it probably would have taken 1/3 the time it took us together (it was an exceptionally taxing Wednesday afternoon), it was neat to be on the same page...though of course I could not resist tweaking it.
- True--Believe it or not, Cinco de Mayo 2006 was pretty cool! It had just the information one would want in an interesting man-on-the-street very simple format that the kids could relate to and laugh a little with. (I dread the day when it looks dated, however.)
- True--Mostly. Even some of the slackers were filling in some info here and there.
- False--I wish. My compatriots thought ahead of time to schedule computer lab time, and next time I will too. This way, we all had time to watch the video, since they started the whole thing on Friday, but I forgot how handy it would be for the young ones to look up images to use and print. They made do with tracing from the smart board projector though.
- True--We'll call this true, anyway. Their posters aren't done yet (which I suppose gives away #10), but they were working together. And we'll call what they were doing work, though 4th period stretched the definition. Though with a workday for the primary elections tomorrow, I can't say I blame them for a little antsiness.
- True--So far. Spanish I kept wanting to work "tomar" and "beber" in, and II wanted to command people to drink for the occasion, but at least I did not see any cerveza bottles on projects yet.
- True--Some ones even had complete sentences ("Chicanos están morenos"--a valiant effort, grammar notwithstanding), and the twos were flipping and stealing those verb endings like they knew what they were doing!
- True--Not one to dole out the test points willingly, I was hesitant to award 3 per period, since they're working in pairs anyway. But, hey! I made a nice little coupon to complement the occasion.
- False--Of course they complained.
- False--Some might have been if I had had the sense to give the assignment at least over the weekend so they could bring in pictures.
Comments (2)
This was a very fun post to read. I may have to steal the idea a little bit.
actually... it was mostly true which meant a great teaching day was had! wooo hoooo!!!