I started today's class off with a book talk regarding two books available as free choice books in our class library. These books were Small Gods by Terry Pratchet and Gang Leader for a day by Sudhir Vankatesh. If you were interested in these books, you can add them to your "Next Reads" list from class.
In today's class, we were looking at elements of experiential facilitation (the type of activities we hope to use to make English instruction more fun and engaging). I had five reading selections photocopied and organized the class into groups of three (with one group of four).
In their groups, everyone chose a reading and highlighted or underlined key pieces of information in the text that tell what important elements of running these activities are. After everyone read their own article, they shared what they had read with their groups.
I gave groups large sheets of paper and markers to record the range of important elements that came up in the readings.
We began sharing these out at the end of class and will review these lists again next class as we begin to work with and look at these elements more.
Homework:
Read from your free choice book (we will establish appropriate page amounts next class).
