Report from the Field – Melissa Kriebel

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2 thoughts on “Report from the Field – Melissa Kriebel”

  1. leigh anne munoz

    I know what you mean about Anne’s statement about the applicability of her stories.

    Her stories, in the end, will allow my students to watch my favorite movie in French, “Azur et Asmar.” And they will be able to catch dialogue that my AP kids would never guess at!

    I am so happy that she allowed her stories to be published.

  2. The thing about Anne’s stories for me is that if it is some expression that works in German but not in French I just don’t use it. What I see as genius in these scripts is how they are set up to create true interest in teenagers. They just do that. Today I was going to do a reading class with my 3/4 class and at the last minute felt instead like doing a story, flipped open Volume 1, told the class, the first words of the class were, as my class told me, that when Elfi was a little girl here mom told her to hit socks or she couldn’t go to the party. So she hit 14 socks. It was all in L2, just us hanging out. It made me so happy to be out of the land of theory, out of ANY use of English, watching how funny and cool my kids are, far from ruminating on weird ass people in teaching like Helena Curtain (I can’t get over her bullshit). We got some real liftoff on the CI. One thing I would like to say is that over the years in those moments of confusion that have peppered my life in class bc too much was going on, and I have needed safe harbor, I have, probably in at least 40 instances when my sorry right brained self just couldn’t adjust to all the shit going on in the classroom bc I haven’t studied Helena Curtain enough, and I just wanted to fall through the floor, on those 40 occasions my eyes somehow found Anne’s book lying on a nearby surface somewhere, usually Vol. 1, and I found immediate safe harbor. I have even said to myself in those moments of confusion and fear when picking up her book, “Thank you, Anne, for saving my ass again!” In that class today I was very aware of not using L1 at all and I thought how important, important, important it is that we not go with 90%, it is FAR TOO LOW A PERCENTAGE TO BE IN L2, but to start focusing on 99%+. Because those ten percentage points are HUGE in terms of keeping the kids’ minds truly and fully focused on the meaning and not the words. In that respect, I thought about how as long as the bike isn’t made to go back to first gear (L1) all the time (when English sneaks into the discussion) it can pick up some real speed and the kids’ minds can be just so solidly focused on the meaning and not the message. [Note: I HOPE that that is what Curtain means when she says minimal use of L2 to translate. But I don’t think it is, I think she means it in a different, much less efficient way. Gotta let that one go.] Anyway, Anne’s stories captivate. They bring liftoff. I think that she really is a genius in that way that she writes scripts. If you know her and her sense of humor, and if you seen the kind of dry way in which she teaches, always looking for the big laugh, setting up the unexpected, you can see where the scripts come from and you can understand why they are so good. Now she is teaching French. We will see what comes from that. I had to beg her to publish these two current volumes. I will ride my bike to Maine in the snow to beg her for more. We shall see.

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