Sean CO #2

     The second class I observed was with Ms. Stringer who taught Group 3A, IN-HI, Reading. Ms. Stringer began the class with an interesting topic involving practical phrases and pragmatics. Such phrases included “under one condition”, “dangle”, “to offer a take on something”, and “to be wrapped up”. The usage of gesticulation, supporting actions, and able to follow pace employed by Ms. Stringer was admirable. She also instructed students to read sentences and offer their own synonyms to link understandable meanings to the students. Such as “to offer a take on something” is to offer an “opinion” or “idea”. The lesson became practical with the introduction of a new topic that students at the demographic age would need to know, which was called “Budgeting a Student Life”. A discussion occurred on what fellow students did with their money in the U.S. such as “do you ever use store credit cards?” We then watched a news video talking about budgets and how credit cards were bad. I believe the video’s purpose was to build and fortify schema within the students for the concluding exercise of reading an article about budgets and money. Now with the digested terms and understandings of money as well as the initial comprehensions of practical phrases, students could both understand and discuss what they read with each other and the teacher.