Mr. Golens began with a warm up activity based on paraphrasing a sentence. I was pretty impressed with the examples the students came up with. This was a smaller class, about 7 students, so there was a feeling of comfort in critiquing each other.
Next he moved on to the meat of the lesson. There was an article about candy making they were to read. First, they had some pre-reading questions to discuss with a partner. Since there was an odd number of students, I partnered with one of the students. After we went over the questions, they got ten minutes to read the two page article. We then discussed some main ideas and some new vocabulary introduced in the article. This led us up to the end of class.
Hi Chris, I wonder if there was any discussion about candies from various countries? Candy is called lollies in Australia. In Sweden they have certain candies that are heavily salted. I know this was a readying class, but a discussion of candy in people's home countries could potentially be a fun activity.
ReplyDeleteThe article itself was about how a particular American makes his candy, however the pre-writing questions did revolve around how this was different than candy in their home country. My partner was from Brazil and told me about a type of chocolate there. This led to a class discussion because he did not know the vocabulary word for "little pieces of chocolate on top of larger piece of chocolate." We finally discovered he was taking about sprinkles!!
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