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  • Lyrics to the rescue!

    One day, I will have an entire Spanish II curriculum based around Latino Pop lyrics. I haven't touched AcademiaPop in a while, but I'm going to need to build on that database to accomplish this, I think. The need for t…

  • Innovations

    Teaching "Dhowli" When you google "Dhowli," the 4th thing that pops up is a lesson plan that I designed and posted on wetheteachers.com. This blog is listed on the 2nd O of Gooooooooooogle. That makes me an expert on …

  • For starters

    I asked one repeating student if she found the old complete-sentence cognate starters more effective or the cognate charts of this year more effective. She said the charts, but I'm not sure if that's just because they'…

  • Cognatating (cognate + cogitating)

    I started reorganizing my cognates system. Instead of beating my head against the complete sentence wall, I'm just going to put a list of about 10-15 cognates on the overhead each day for the starter and have the kiddos…

  • Starting Spanish

    After much anguish over starters in Spanish, I think I may have a plan of attack. Cognates worked out pretty well last semester as a means to keep the heathens at least pretending busy-ness until I felt like diving in, …

  • Will it work?

    Starters Brainstorm Previously I have done a brief analysis of starters I have used in the past and their general lack of efficacy. I think I'm going to have to suck it up and scrap the idea of a uniform approach to st…

  • Starter Strategy Review

    I have been through five different starter activities since I started teaching three years ago--six if we include cognates in Spanish. Maybe I'm too picky, or maybe my directions are too convoluted, or the activities ju…

  • Audacity is a wonderful thing. With it, I have been able to cut and paste just the parts of the following songs that include forms of ser, estar, and various -ar ending verbs the young ones should know. "Un idiota" -- …

  • The Cognates Are Coming!

    OK, I still think I'm brilliant for making my kids do some cognates every day in complete sentences. I think I'm brilliant, at least, until it's the weekend and I'm staring at a stack of notebooks. Ordinarily, it would…

  • Little Things

    Testing Policy One student in second period got punished for getting a book out before I took her first quiz up. My disciplinary model, Sra. Foy, assured me that this was necessary to make it known I was serious. That …