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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
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Lauren /blockquote>

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...See More
Dec 14, 2007
Jessica /blockquote>

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...See More
Jan 16, 2008
It's sad It's sad because you thought it could be funny. MOre than one student asked you "WHo's HIllary" -- you -- a teacher. But instead of telling them, teaching them, you decided to tell them she is running for president of the 7th grade class. I get so fed up with teacher's coming in to the teacher's lounge -- "Can you BELIEVE they didn't know....." If ...See More
May 25, 2008


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