Ah, I made my poor American Culture class kids (third-years) do a spelling bee last week, botching it of course by not taking into account how long it'd take to do a spelling bee properly with fifty students, cause I was aiming at how I did it last year with twenty-one... So we ran out of time, of course, so we'll have to finish next class.
I was impressed by how well the kids did, spelling words like rhythm, vegetable, revolution, curriculum, cucumber, and elevator. They did miss ones like raspberry and mix up s and z or r and l, etc. But those are reasonable misspellings. I chose their numbers randomly by using a deck of playing cards, according to alphabetical order of suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades), which almost worked, but took too long for my slow brain to calculate which number of the class list to translate a given card into. Anyway, I think they liked it, but of course it's no fun for the ones who miss a word early to sit there for forty-five minutes watching others participating.........
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Jefferson Peters (JP)
Can you find me in the picture above? Archives
December 2023
Categories |