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Do You Keep Secrets From Your Friends?
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4 thoughts on “Do You Keep Secrets From Your Friends?”
Ever since I read your entry, Jody, I have been jotting down values-type questions for my 4AP class. I can’t wait to try it out. My next step will be to do the same for my 3rd and 2nd year. Coincidentally the theme of the school yearbook this year is “A School Year of Secrets”. People were encouraged to anonymously submit secrets that are sprinkled throughout. It’s very engaging. Great idea! Thanks.
A while ago, I picked up a game called Scruples at the second hand store for a dollar. There are lots of little situations like this listed (some of them not appropriate for class, so they have to be screened) and I sometimes pull one out for a discussion. Jody, I’m encouraged to hear that there are some difficult and complex evaluative discussions going on, all in Spanish! in your class.
> It was fascinating watching them make connections with their real lives in Spanish. Language was the vehicle to express opinions and think about life.
I just love this summary, the good questions above it, and this whole practice Jody describes. Why? Because it’s centered on real stuff people care about and “get invested in”. Like what is good and what is evil and why? What is correct and incorrect? Who says? The good boy or the bad girl? Or vice versa?
> Even in their rudimentary Spanish, their thoughts were important and listened to.
Hallelujah. Even in their rudimentary Spanish, their thoughts were important and listened to. So there’s room to say things we care about in this conversation? This is so great. Even in their rudimentary Spanish, their thoughts were important and listened to.
I love trying to figure out what learners are trying to say when they speak rudimentarily, it’s such a great opportunity for call/response interaction. We end up repeating each other a whole lot while refining the sounds and words more and more, making sure we share understanding of the same message, while sneaking in lotsa imitation and repeats. And imitation. I don’t know if it’s correct. But it’s fun =)
Jody,
Thanks so much for this idea. My students just finished watching “Das Wunder von Bern” (The Miracle of Bern), a film about the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, which Germany won. I took scenes from the film and used them as the example of a principle to ask, e.g. Is it okay to lie? Is it okay to spank your children? Is it okay to get drunk occasionally? etc. We couldn’t do a lot of in-depth discussion because of language constraints (level 1), but my students really got into the game and dealing with the issues, and it provided me with more opportunity to give CI. Since today is the day before a long weekend and we had a pep rally, this was a fun way to keep students engaged.