Avoiding Superfluous Details in Stories
In a comment to this post: http://www.benslavic.com/blog/2011/11/22/the-beauty-of-the-three-locations/ John said: "I’m working on Matava’s “Talks Too Much” and “Refrigerator” in my two levels, and the students want to linger on one situation, and come up with all kinds of crazy details. This is great
A Minor in Spanish
Today I met someone who is majoring in Political Science with a minor in Spanish at Metro State University here in Denver. I asked why the minor in Spanish and she explained how useful it would be in whatever career
The Six Spokes of the Fluency Wheel
I always like to have a mindset before beginning a week of comprehensible input - a game plan devoted exclusively to comprehensible input, if you will, that I will not deviate from. I want to spend the week on what
One More ACTFL Blog Post from Bryce
http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2011/report-from-actfl-5-ninja-tprs
Brian Found an Article
I have been meaning to get this article into an edited form. Brian highlighted some particularly important passages in green but I put them in pink below because it shows up better. It's worth the long read for obvous reasons. I love that
We Don't Own Their Minds
Looking back through some old files, I found this from 2009 when I was still teaching in a middle school. I wrote this before the new Colorado standards were published: I ran into three former students, two juniors in the high
Quote
"Determination, energy and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something.” -- Margaret Wheatley
Native Languages
I got this from Chill. It might help you, Jim, on your project and anyone else interested in the topic. I'll put it under the Sauk Language category, which is our category for all things connected to preserving native languages: http://casls-nflrc.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-project-endangered-languages.html
The Beauty of the Three Locations
We can't forget the beauty of the three locations. What do they provide? First, continuity - they keep the story from getting too wide, too big. The argument against stories that are too big is that, even if CI is
More From Bryce on ACTFL
http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2011/report-from-actfl-6-the-good-stuff http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2011/report-from-actfl-7-the-walkabout