This blog is not about my trip! This blog will not be really long! Yay! (I have Day Three written, I just need to go sift through pictures, and I think some of the ones I want are on Al's computer.)
Today we were talking about the three kinds of "there." We had written down the definitions of there, their, and they're; looked at examples of the uses for each one; and were finally doing some class practice. I have a student in my last class of the day who likes my class but is the often failing type and has a tendency to lose things and not turn stuff in. He's a slow reader and an unenthusiastic writer. Well, we were going through the practice questions as a class, and he suddenly had the lightning stroke of genius to look at his notes before answering a question. (I tell them to do this, all the time, for the last seven months.) Suddenly he was getting them all right! He could barely contain his glee. "This is a lot easier if you use these," he told the people around him conspiratorially, gesturing to his notes. You'd think I had him write those down for just that purpose or something, maybe, you know, perhaps.
Oh dear. At least he finally noticed. It was fun to watch a student suddenly get a testimony of notes before my very eyes.
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