Ugh--today we had to have Wednesday classes on Saturday.
And it was around 30 degrees today (though luckily not humid). But it was fun to meet the first-year English majors a second time this week. Japanese university classes are 90 minutes once per week, so I always feel a bit disappointed and let down when one class I like finishes, because it's going to take so long (one whole week) to meet again. And I really like this class. Anyway, the best part of today came when I was trying to explain rhyme to them, and then end rhyme, and then showed the lyrics for "Let It Go" on the screen, and pointed out the end rhyme patterns stanza by stanza, etc., and then decided on a whim to ask them to all sing the first half of the song or so. We had "warmed up" by singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and repeating various rhymes, and I'd had a great time playing a nursery school teacher with them as my infants learning about rhyme, so I thought, Why not? And they sang it so well! It was as if we'd been all practicing it like some giant chorus club (there were at least 90 students in the room, about 60 girls), and their sweet voices singing in harmonious unison were thrilling. At one point I got so excited that I was doing the Elsa gestures for making snow and ice shoot out of my hands! And I tried telling them that not only did the song have cool lyrics about girl power and being yourself no matter what other people think and a catchy tune, but it also has lots of rich rhymes (end and internal) and consonance and assonance, etc. I don't know if they'll remember anything I told them about rhyme etc., but we had a high time indeed.
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Rena Sakaguchi
5/26/2019 07:12:14 pm
Hello, JP!
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JP
5/27/2019 10:41:02 am
Hola, Rena!
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