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Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =Total Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
Lesson Title:What do you do?
Date of Class:9/21
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module:What do you do?
How Many Learners:2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):We had a new learner today! And one who comes frequently. It was a great class back; we practiced the verb ‘do’ in different ways and focused a lot on pronunciation and writing which both learners need most. We first talked about what we do for work, then using images of people doing some sort of job (painter, server, chef, etc) we practiced asking ‘what does he/she do’ and then, after realizing the challenges they were having with the difference between ‘what do you do’ and what are you doing, we focused on both structures.
Lesson Title:What do you do?
Date of Class:9/21
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module:What do you do?
How Many Learners:6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): All 6 of the ‘regulars’ were there! The class was similar to the first one, with a bit more focus on pronunciation and instead of asking ‘what is he/she doing’, we practiced the structure ‘what does a ______do’? with regards to the images of people doing their job. A nice sort of review class to get warmed up, tho I will likely add some challenge to the class next week as these ladies are generally more advanced. Good to be back!
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Date of Class:9/28
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module:What do you do?
How Many Learners:3
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =4
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We reviewed a few things from last week, I switched things up a bit though to make it more challenging; we practiced ‘what do you do’ vs. ‘what are you doing’ for the first 15 miuntes or so. It was clear that all learners will need more practice with this so we will do so again next week.. We then reviewed images of people doing some sort of job (painter, server, chef, etc) and we practiced the verb ‘do’ in various ways- what is he doing vs. what does a painter do? We added in a TRP using the action verbs of the images which really helped to raise the energy. Will plan to continue this theme next week, possibly with some new images or some other way to practice the before-mentioned structures.
Lesson Title: The greatest wealth is good health
Date of Class:9/28
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Alternative Medicine
How Many Learners:6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): All 6 of the ‘regulars’ were there again!! My intention was to start an election theme but I was struggling last night with it so I decided to do a topic that I am familiar with and passionate about. Alternative medicine! I had to start from scratch so it took some planning but it went pretty well and I am excited to expand it. We started with the title and then I asked them to come up with words associated with the theme; they actually didn’t know much about it so I gave them a definition to write down. Then, using some images of common alternative modalities (acupuncture, massage, meditation, chiropractic care, hypnosis) we wrote out some definitions- they did know a few of the terms but not much about them. Also I found that the language used was quite difficult, though it was good listening/writing practice, it seemed to be a bit frustrating so we switched gears to just passing around the pictures and saying short sentences. We then did a cloze acitivty about youth and alt. medicine which they loved. I’m glad I asked at the end if they watched the debate as it made me realize that they don’t know much about the presidential election coming up and weren’t planning on voting! I will plan to start that theme next week and go back to alt medicine after that…
Lesson Title:What do you do?
Date of Class:10/5
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module:What do you do?
How Many Learners:2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Really good class today with little planning! I was pretty occupied with coming up with a good lesson for the 2nd group of learners that I put this on the backburner- interestingly it went better anyways! It was a continuation of the last 2 weeks so that definitely helped.. but also there was a lot of engagement and laughing. We reviewed ‘what do you do’ and then practiced do in the past tense. Next was a short dialogue relevant to the theme- during this I noticed the struggle with in vs. on and so we practiced that for a few minutes. We ended with a review of our images and a fun listen/find to end the class.
Lesson title: The lesser of two Evils
Date of Class:10/5
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Presidential Elections
How Many Learners:6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =8
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 36
What happened: Not my best class, even though I prepared a ton! It was my first time doing this module and there is just so much info out there, I had a hard time making it interesting, the printout that I asked the site coordinator to print, came out really small and so that threw me off. Also, the language was just complicated and I sensed some frustration. I tried my best to just keep is short and simple and it wasn’t all that bad by any means, just not as smooth as I would hope. Alas, I learned from it and have some good ideas brewing for next week. I brought some yummy pumpkin bread to share and ended with a cloze activity (whicH I know they like) so at least they left happy ;)
Lesson Title:
Date of Class:10/5
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module:What do you do?
How Many Learners:2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =3
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score:32
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Pretty good class, not bad just not my best. We did a quick review of the topic what do you do, and generally the verb ‘do’, and worked with the past tense a lot. With maybe 20 minutes left, I could have stuck to that topic but somehow the elections came up and It was clearly interesting to them so I decided to do an activity that I did last week with my more advanced group. I wasn’t planning on covering this theme with this particular group as they are a bit lower leveled but since there is interest, I plan to do at least the next 2 classes on elections/voting. I brought cake, they loved it!
Lesson title: The deadline to register to vote in Oregon is October 18th.
Date of Class:10/12
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Presidential Elections
How Many Learners:6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 34
What happened: Pretty good class as well; we talked about deadlines and dates for voting in the election this year and then did a listening activity about the 2 party system. I had them fill out a ‘fake’ voter registration card so that they would be comfortable filling out their own if they choose to (we did not talk about who is registered, voting, etc..) But they did all tell me who they do NOT want to be our president ;) we started to watch some short clips- a speech by both candidates about their differing views on immigration but we didn’t get very far. Will defintiely do that next week, they really liked it. And they also loved the cake! :)
Lesson Title:
Date of Class: 10/19/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: President Elections
How Many Learners:2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 33
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Class was a bit challenging because of the language related to voting and elections. Though I encouraged learners to not get too focused on meaning, a lot of the words were just straight up hard to pronounce. And there were quite a few phrasal verbs (drop off, take back, etc..) that were new to them. So, we didn’t get very far into the “plan” but I think everyone felt pretty accomplished. And we did the ‘this is an apple activity’ using items involved in the votng process (ballot, drop box, voter registration form, voter pamphlet). I know for sure that one of the 2 are planning to vote; unfortunately, the other one didn’t realize that she had to update her voter registration since her address changed somewhat recently. I am going to look into the website that tells you your registration info to see if I can help her, but I’m afraid it might be too late. On the positive note, now she knows!
Lesson title:
Date of Class:10/19
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Presidential Elections
How Many Learners:3
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 33
What happened: Only 3 learners today, and energy was a bit low (on my end too!) This topic is tough, and tiring.. the whole thing is tiring! ha. Same issues came up from the first group, hard to pronounce words, with several new and challenging words/definitions. We did pretty much the same thing as group 1; “this is an apple”, vocab word dictation and talked about some deadlines and election day. I made sure to let them know when their ballot must be in, and how to get it where it needs to go safely. One learner said she got her voters’ pamphlet today so we talked a little about that…
We ended with listening to the trump speech from last week but didn’t get far. I do want to do 1 more class with this modules since we haven’t yet explored any of the measures; I would like to at least go over a few of the most important/relevant to them. I may take a break and do a Halloween class next week, and then do 1 more election class the week before the ‘big day’.Lesson Title: The graveyard shift
Date of Class: 10/26/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Halloween
How Many Learners:2
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 33
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Class started with only 1 leaner- apparently there was a truck blocking the entrance so the 2nd learner was a bit late. We started with title of todays lesson, the did a short dialogue about trick or treating. Next was some vocab/pronunciation practice with images of common symbols of Halloween. Within this, there was banter about some of the images. I learned that one of the ladies had to go to school in a haunted house in her home country because her other school (which was a 1 room school house) got ruined in a wind storm. Pretty interesting what you can find out with a picture! We then did a cloze activity and ended with a “Halloween facts” dictation.
Lesson title: The graveyard shift
Date of Class:10/26
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Halloween
How Many Learners:4
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 36
What happened: Fun class! We did the title, the a dialogue about trick or treating. Focused a lot on pronunciation with all dictations and dialogue. During the vocabulary/this is a what we used images to practice with this/that/these/those. We spent quite a bit of time doing this, but they really liked it and got some great repetetive practice. We did the same cloze activity as above and with just a few minutes left, ended with a word scramble that was associated with the words in the cloze activity document.
Lesson Title: Theres no place like home
Date of Class: 11/2/16
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 12:30-2
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Healthy Homes
How Many Learners:1
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 35
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Just 1 learner today so I had to modify but all went smooth and she got lots of attention. We did title, then learned names of some household cleaning products. It was cool- she said about several of the items that she never knew what they were called so when she goes to shop for them, she can’t figure out how to find them. So, she was delighted to learn some new vocab. We ended with watching a video and dictating instruction on how to clean a cutting board with a lemon. Fun!
Lesson title: Theres no place like home
Date of Class:11/2/16
Day of Class:Wednesday
Time of Class:2:30-4
MC:Brooke
DJ:
Assistants:
Module: Healthy homes
How Many Learners:6
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =5
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 32
What happened: An ok class. I felt like we did too much surrounding the household products that I brought in, and wished I had switched it up a bit but.. overall, they got some great practice in. We started with the title of the lesson, then ‘this is an apple’ with the cleaning supplies. Since it was a larger group, and the sound on my phone wasn’t great, I didn’t want to do the video as it would’ve been hard to hear. (I intended to use my computer but I found out when I got there that the normal program I use to download youtube videos to the computer, wasn’t working. Since there isn’t an internet connection to use, the only option was my phone). I plan to try to fix it for next week. So, since i didn’t have a ton of material to work with, we did a dictation about what each product is used for. For ex) What is a sponge used for? A sponge is used to…. Dictation progression and round robin for each item felt a little lengthy but we ended with a fun TPR to balance it out :)
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