Continuing progress

Work on the First Language Poetry project has been slow this past week. I had to be out of the building for a reading workshop for two days. The sub, as subs will usually be, was of little help.

I was able to introduce the students to the primary goals of the project, and with their help better map in the parameters. I was able to give a very short lesson on semantic domains of words, introduce the vocabulary word connotation, and I think convey some of the complexity of literature in translation. Testing whether or not i taught anything is another matter though, and something I probably should not make time for.

I won't go into all the reasons I won't test it, but it is interesting there is no Mn Language Arts standard nor ELL standard that relates to this kind of complex task. That may mean that I am in left field, but the students were quite interested in it, had many questions and personal observations. It seems quite relevant to advanced ELL students.

Students were able to get some lab time but I have not yet been able to track their progress.