So week 2 was interesting.
On Wednesday, Jane came to see my class. This was also my first Language class. I chose to use that ginger-bread man cut out from Language class to talk about character and inference.
I also chose to use the book How to Talk to Girls as our starting point. ......
I thought, This book is a book of opinions about dating by an eight year old kid. So it will be really easy to figure out facts about the character (read the bib at the back), really easy to figure out specifics of what he has to say, then we can put those two things together (our clues) and figure out deeper information about the character -- INFERENCE.
yes I know what you're thinking... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!! they are in grade 4!!
The students were ... excited, crazy, freaked out, desperate to speak, angered by the fact class clowns don't get girls. I mean really angry. They were desperate to hear me read more, yet totally freaked out by the content of the information. They decided that the author - 8 year old Alec from Colorado - was desperate and didn't have a clue about dating. I was thinking that little do they know that this kid has just spelled out everything they're going to learn about dating in the next 20 years. He's saving you some grief!!
Would I do it again? Maybe in grade 6.
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