Wednesday, February 4, 2015

La frustración

February 4th, 2015

Today was the first day for which I had to plan a lesson so that I could leave halfway through my last block class to attend my seminar course at Worcester State.  Honestly, this is stressing me out.  I feel bad for my last block students who are not getting the input that they need from me--input that my other two classes are, indeed, getting.

I will never, ever understand why this seminar class is at 2:30.  Any student traveling from any kind of distance cannot make it without leaving early. WHY would they want us to do that? I really do not understand it.  I, honestly, was worried about killing myself because of the velocity at which I have to travel to try to make it there for 2:30.

Today, I moved on with my classes. We started by going over the opening activity, which was a test for them to see how much they knew.  I asked them to list the days of the week, the days of the weekend, the months, the seasons, 8 Spanish-speaking countries, etc.  I was impressed that each class was able to produce what I wanted with very few errors.  My students are definitely struggling with accent marks. Ay. So much to review.  I did find, however, that the students did not know the seasons, which was good information for me.

After this review, we started an activity on possessive adjectives--my, your, his, her, our, etc. I color coded the examples--at first, I used the same two examples for each. Then, I showed a powerpoint and asked the students to fill in the blank.  After that, I gave them conjugation cards that I got from la vieja because I am quizzing them on regular verbs tomorrow.  Let's hope it goes well!

Cambio y corto,

el joven

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