Lesson Title: Welcome to Oregon!
Date of Class: 10/12/15
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Cece, Autumn
Module: Refugees in Oregon (Was supposed to be Oregon Health Plan)
How Many Learners: 13
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Brought new materials.

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
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) = 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6

Total Score: 31

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We had two shadowers, and they were great – but the class was overall a little bit of a mess.. I had the wrong module, for one thing. And I couldn’t get anything visually interesting out on the table. The two tables were separated by hispanos and other languages, and it would have been better to mix them up a little. Ultimately, several folks disenrolled, and at least two low skill folks said it was too hard, and one high skill person said it was too easy. Pretty classic failed to win them over. The energy was pretty good, though.. and our assistants were eager, but also a little overwhelmed.

Lesson Title: Ellis Island
Date of Class: 10/26/15
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Chelsi, Gabby
Module: Refugees in Oregon
How Many Learners: 5
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) = 4
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) = 5

Total Score: 28

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): small group, we didn’t do alphabet this time, and started with a dictation.. it was great having gabby back and chelsi is into it. A bit of a struggle for a couple of folks.. but the pictures of folks from Ellis Island were interesting and helped clarify some issues around immigration for higher skill folks – I said – “before 1892, there was no immigration system” one learner said.. that was better then.

Lesson Title: Ghouls and Gobllins
Date of Class: 11/2/15
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6-730
MC: Patrik
DJ:
Assistants: Ceci, Alin, Maria
Module: Thanksgiving
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Plenty

Self Evaluation

Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 4
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) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =5

Total Score: 32

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We had a few people come back, which was great.. worried a little about declining attendance. husband wife team very engaged. One learner’s daughter sweetly playing along with us. Maria came for some tips about her Spanish teaching, and learned a little about English as well. Alin and Ceci had fun and helped out a lot

Lesson Title: Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk
Date of Class: 11/9/2015
Day of Class: Monday
Time of Class: 6:00-7:30 pm
MC: Patrik
DJ: Brenna
Assistants: Brenna, Ceci, Alin
Module: Thanksgiving
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Thanksgiving fact sheets
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) = 4
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6
Total Score: 31

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): It was a small class tonight. Did alphabet sheet, did some dictation, then read over and used fact sheet to talk about Thanksgiving in the USA. Had some very good contributions during pronunciation practice, from both higher and lower-skilled learners. Towards the end of class had some dictation practice with one of the learners giving an ingredient list for Thanksgiving stuffing.

Lesson Title: In the dead of winter
Date of Class: 12/2/15
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6
MC: Krysie B
DJ: Ethan J
Assistants: N/A
Module: Maps and Addresses
How Many Learners: 3
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): All good

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) = 4
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 5
Total Score: 30

What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
We went through the Alphabet exercise and yell & spell as normal. After, we dictated address numbers then dictated and practiced saying 3 mini dialogues pertaining to finding places / asking for and receiving address information for places. We ended with a TPR game involving scarves, gloves, canned food, and other winter related items. Students struggled with the ways we say numbers differently when they are addresses. Moreover, ordinal numbers such as 5th and 2nd took longer to dictate than others.