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9 thoughts on “Jump Starting Class”
As always, thank you for the reminder! I was doing this without thinking about it the other day with a mini-script, but just did a few reps on each.
This is a great way to start class. Jump right into the action of personalization. Take the social energy and excitement that kids brings with them to the start of class and ride that straight into PQA.
I’m going to do exactly this for Freshman First Day tomorrow. Thanks, Ben! p.s… how was your zip line adventure?
Hey Angie. I expected this 70 mile an hour thing but the mountains in Rajasthan are just worn down so much with time the fastest we got going was 15 mph. Neemrana Fort Palace – when you get down here it’s a must-see.
Ben, how would you do this with the verb “ask”? I can focus on one student and do the PSA, “Class, Trina asks!” Then I could circle when she asks, what she asks, whom she asks, how she asks. Is that what you’re saying here? Would you bring in another student and start comparing the two?
My only rule is that the verb have mojo, can be used in endless cute combinations. Asks is a verb you might get some mileage out of. You have to test it right there in class and see what comes up. I would start by asking if Wally asks lots of questions. Then I would pin him down – if he wanted to play or not that day; you can tell by looking in their faces – with “Wally, hey Wally….Wally….Hey, to whom do you ask a lot of questions?” And then, as the train gathers some speed, “Hey Wally do you ask a lot of questions to Ronald McDonald?” “Hey Wally….Wally…. what language do you ask questions in? Greek? Hey Wally do you ask questions to people who have long hair (or some other recently taught structure)? Wally if you are asking a question to someone special do you ask it romantically?” Let the questions cascade, one from the other. But yeah it all depends on the verb. Relax and engage them in a way that conveys a sincere desire to know the answers. Even if you don’t care. I mean, I don’t really give a rat’s ass who Larry asks questions to, but he doesn’t need to know that.
I got it, thanks, Ben. I see lots of possibilities.
Yeah Larry it’s the power of PSA. We always thought that we had to ask the right questions and be clever and all we have to do if we’re not feeling real clever that day is TELL them what is going down. “Class, Mike drives a car!” and no confusion about it. And all we have to do is find out where, with whom, what the car looks like, etc. If you are new and reading this, the secret to comprehensible input is picking a target structure and repeating it in various contexts until it has been circled into the ground and then you go somewhere else with another expression or if it is in a story to the next line in the script or, if you are not using a script, to the next target you are trying to mold into a story.
I’m trying this today.