tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37973714025068881772012-02-16T05:11:39.816-05:00A translator is sneering, fickle, unreliable creature, whereas an education is 100% portable and makes you look cool in almost any situationSra. Spanglishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03381581852233671826noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797371402506888177.post-38204263692109755852010-09-18T06:54:00.001-04:002010-09-18T07:15:08.965-04:00

So I have not stopped posting at http://huerter0.xanga.com.  I'll be remarrying in November, so I guess I can be Huerter0 until then.  The account reverting is due more directly to the fact that, despite my resignation to abandon my English roots, I am once again a Spanglish teacher.  That's right: on top of 2 classes of Spanish 1 and 2 classes of Spanish 2, I have a class of English 1 for the

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My principal tweets a lot...and sometimes it's interesting.  Last night, for example, he linked to http://www.designforchangecontest.com/. I have been looking for an excuse to become part of the health science projects at my school, interdisciplinary independent research projects that students typically complete as part of their science classes every 6 weeks, freshman to junior year (they are

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There are a lot of things from Jim's presentation that I do not think could be found online for the majority of the Spanish-speaking world, i.e. bus/train schedules (though maybe this site will work?).  HOWEVER, I believe he has shown me the perfect way to start my Spanish 1 school year! I want to put my kids in family groups and have them choose apellidos. I want them to pick a city to live in;

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I had this vision of the kinds of things I wanted to find for a unit on college life, and it looked kind of like a textbook with charts to compare different statistics and pictures of college kids being (model) college kids in various countries.  Is it my key words? Am I looking in the wrong places? I did manage to find a college application for some college I've never heard of in Mexico.  It

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I aspire to make my TPR as good as Lara's one day, but I was confused by what she'd told me versus what I saw.  She said that she made the gestures up with the kids, but then demonstrated gestures she'd already made up.  I think I like that better, not because I don't have a STUPENDOUS memory for class-to-class variation, but because it has a definite starting place.  Otherwise how do the kids

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There are so many things I want to ask for pre-reading for Pies Ligeros! Looking at the pictures: What colors does the artist use in these pictures? How do these colors make you feel? What kind of story do you expect from this style of painting? Fairy tale? Fable? Biography? Who will be some of the characters in this book? What activity are all of the characters doing? About the idea of Death:

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As a baby English teacher, I was raised to think of all sorts of creative things--the most creative things possible--to attach to a book and motivate readers to engage with it.  Ironically, what I think I was missing was methods to engage the readers DURING the reading and the means to truly measure comprehension AFTERWARD. Talking with my classmates (und la Dra.), I came to realize that a lot

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I have been fervently hunting authentic texts--authentic children's literature--online since April at least.  Pies Ligeros is a book I'd come across, but hadn't found much information about (though it's been on my Amazon wishlist since June 13.)  While this is not an actual legend, as I'd hoped it was, it is an authentic product, in that a Mexican author, daughter of a Mexican painter, wrote the

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Just as Dra. Moser said: the student writer needs "organizational support"!  The example that provided suggestions for segmenting chunks a writing assignment was just what I needed to get started! With the format that included a context/set-up scenario, followed by a description of the type of text to be produced, then rounded off with starter sentences, I was able to turn the Future Me

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At least one fear has been laid to rest: authentic texts need not be 200 words in order to be effective.  The roughly 100-word text we used today was probably ideal for a beginner to sink her teeth into (my German is SO rusty!) Also, the textbook analysis of Realidades helped me come up with more text types to seek out that I had not previously considered, such as schedules, athlete profiles,

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Let's see if I can remember them: Communication, Culture, Community, Connections...Comprehension?  Nuts.  Comparisons.  Comparisons AND connections?  Seems redundant. In the spirit of memorizing this, the backbone of foreign language instruction nationwide, and making my plans for the year to come as thorough as possible, I'm not only going to use Sternberg labels and modes of communication

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1) An education is 100% portable: it does not rely on wifi accessibility, nor can it be crushed in your backpack.  2) How do you KNOW that's really what you meant to say? 3) Homonyms do not compute: "can" has only one meaning to a translator. Think about it.  4) Translators skip words they don't know, putting the Gettysburg Address 5 years before "I Have a Dream." 5) Translators mock you for not

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