Day 386

Thursday January 7

My 1st class good….We went over review questions and started talking about personal voice. They did pretty well on the personal voice. We covered 7 pages.

2nd class was good. I realized I didn’t make a quiz for the newspaper class. I just wrote all the questions on the board and they wrote the number and their answer. Today we covered a writing lesson about words that have different meanings-ex: light (not heavy) (not dark) and a rhyming poem. They did pretty good on the lesson. Then we did one page of a lesson from another book. They do really well on the writing lessons from the other book that I used to use in my upper level classes.

3rd class was good…we went over the newspaper articles. They seemed to like the one about the dog who travelled around the world. They wanted to know if the owner was rich, did she come to Korea, and how old was the dog. None of that information was in the article.We also talked about green sheep, food eaten on new years, and obama getting vaccinated. One student asked to only read the articles and not listen. I told her we were going to listen also today. We actually finished early. I would have had time to do a 5th article but I just gave them free time. They saw some Korean music on my Itunes and they wanted to listen to G-Dragon and 2PM. I should have gotten extra info on the dog one but I didn’t know they’d ask so many questions. After class I found a great article about them. She sold her home to pay for the trip ($399,000 usd)(250,000 British Pounds). I searched some more and found out the dog is 7 and she didn’t come to Korea. There were also some good photos of the dog at the places they visited.

Here's a good article about the dog:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237315/A-hound-world-80-days-Meet-Oscar-canine-globe-trotting-sensation.html

Last class was good. I also had the students write their answers down for the newspaper quiz. They all wanted to write the questions out also. I told them they could just write the answer. Then we covered 3 pages in writing. We talked about plural possessive nouns and where to add quotation marks when someone is speaking. They did well on both. They had some trouble with the strong interesting words review, but most of the class is new so they havent covered that lesson with me before.

I have booked everything for my trip to NYC!! I got a round trip plane ticket from NC to NY, 5 nights in a 3 star hotel, a round trip bus ride to Washington DC and Philadelphia, and a comprehensive 8 hour tour of NYC for about $420. I think thats a great deal for a week long vacation.