Re: state of the world..

Posted by Jessica on 1/16/08

More | Report Post

Maybe you can make current evens part of your spanish curriculum... they
obviously are not getting it in Social Studies! I am doing the elections right now
with my class, and we are predicting the winners of each primary/caucus and
looking over the polls (great for math.)

I don't know how that would be in a spanish class, but maybe they could have a
HW assignment to look at the candidates

http://www.nick.com/kpp/

(This is the Nickelodeon site, which I am having my students use, as it is REALLY
simple, though there are more candidates on the site than are still running.)

The site also gives an overview of the election process written for kids.

Then, they could come back and say Mi gusta Hillary, or No mi gusta Hillary...

They could learn spanish vocab for the elections, and will also then learn the
english vocab... even if you just did this for 1 day, seriously, it would make a
difference... and it could create a future voter!

Our vocab right now is suffrage, primary, caucus, election, ballot, or something
close...

On 12/14/07, Lauren wrote:
> This is both funny and sad. It is funny because kids really
> can just be air-headed at times. However, it does go to
> show that society as a whole does not emphasize the
> importance of current events in global, political, and
> national news. Instead, people usually pay more attention
> to things like Hollywood, fashion trends, and scandal.
>
>
>
> On 12/06/07, you can decide if this is funny or sad :)
> wrote:
>> I teach middle school Spanish and we were learning "to
>> like". In Spanish you can't say "I like pizza" in non
>> slang speech..you say "Pizza is pleasing to me"--so this
>> is a verb students need a lot of practice and examples to
>> master.
>>
>> 2nd period:
>> I said we could use people "I like Brad Pitt"), but no one
>> at our school and no politicians--no Bush and no Hiliary.
>>
>> Who's Hiliary?? ask several people at once.
>> Hiliary Clinton
>> Who's that?
>> She wants to be president..
>> Of what?
>> The US
>> Huh? Bush is president!!
>>
>> 4th period: I say the same thing and get the same
>> questions:
>> Hiliary wants to be president? Of what?
>> So I said: Hiliary Clinton wants to be the president of
>> Jefferson Middle's (our school) 7th grade class..
>> OHH..and class continues
>> A few minutes later:
>> David: Mrs. Peterson, is Hiliary Clinton really running
>> for school president? I've never heard of her.. but I'm an
>> 8th grader.
>>
>> I said "Well I can see that requiring you all to watch
>> Channel One (news for grades 6-12) is helping you learn
>> about current events..".
>>
>> Katie: Why didn't anyone tell me our school elections were
>> covered on Channel One?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Posts on this thread, including this one

• state of the world.., 12/06/07, by you can decide if this is funny or sad :).
• Re: state of the world.., 12/14/07, by Lauren.
• Re: state of the world.., 1/16/08, by Jessica.
• Re: state of the world.., 5/25/08, by It's sad.