Marta always has these really cool, almost-weekly posts about what she is learning in all of her classes, so here goes:
History of English Language: I'm learning about 5 new languages. Transcribing Old English, Proto Germanic, stuff like that into IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and MDE (Modern Day English). It's ridiculously hard. For instance... scinan [šinan], rune [runə], wealh [wæǝlx]
Africana Womanism: The 18 characteristics of an Africana Womanist! Including: male compatability, strong, nurturering, flexible role-playing, etc...
20th Century British Literature: That Zadie Smith is very creative. And all about eugenics, the Islam faith, and that the kid next to me thinks the homeless should be used for medical testing instead of mice.
Critical Theory: Jacques Lacan is crazy, and I don't understand him.
Teaching Language Arts: the importance of teaching grammar, how using blogs is now becoming a very practical and successful way to get students interested in writing, and pondering how music effects student writing. All very interesting stuff!
Behavior Management: not a darn thing...
Literary Synthesis (my field): that even though The Color Purple is a very wonderful novel to read, the students in my class still choose not to participate.
....Lace
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oh history of english... that class makes me want to drop out of school.
my bro is a high school media literacy teacher in chicago and keeps a blog about how excited he is to teach different things to his students, it's really cute. here's the url: http://lakeforestcreativemediablog.burchettproductions.com/
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