Frank Antonson
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2009
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
Well, in one sense, "The Games" are over. By Christmas break I had managed to cover morphology and syntax, with two exceptions: "Ata. ij" [all the average student of foreign language EVER needs to know about interjections]; and objective complements. Those two things I will cover at my leisure in January.
I looked back at the start of this thread and saw that it was October 2, 2010. Between that date and December 22, I spent a little over half of each 45-minute period on this effort. The rest of those periods were spent on a chronological survey of the humanities from about Hebrew Literature through Greek mythology.
It is close to accurate to say that these students knew nothing useful about the parts of speech and NOTHING about the parts of sentences. Many of the students, however, were very highly motivated, as demonstrated by Home - Notes for Humanities/Language See the linguistics and syntax buttons.
Now I intend to use this skill and knowledge that the students have in our enjoyment of Shakespeare and in their exposure to Spanish, French, and Latin.
I guess I should begin a new thread. I'll have to think of a name. Any suggestions?
I looked back at the start of this thread and saw that it was October 2, 2010. Between that date and December 22, I spent a little over half of each 45-minute period on this effort. The rest of those periods were spent on a chronological survey of the humanities from about Hebrew Literature through Greek mythology.
It is close to accurate to say that these students knew nothing useful about the parts of speech and NOTHING about the parts of sentences. Many of the students, however, were very highly motivated, as demonstrated by Home - Notes for Humanities/Language See the linguistics and syntax buttons.
Now I intend to use this skill and knowledge that the students have in our enjoyment of Shakespeare and in their exposure to Spanish, French, and Latin.
I guess I should begin a new thread. I'll have to think of a name. Any suggestions?