Mini Lessons

Yesterday we began our first set of mini lessons. One lesson, taught by Jenny, was on italicizing and underlining. At the end of her lesson the class played a game called it and un, where she presented an incorrect sentence that either needed italics or to be underlined, and then the students would shout the answer. The same sort of presentation was given on dashes and commas by Michelle. It was fantastic. No, no. Brilliant. Some other lessons had the students go up to the white board and work with some sentences, like changing active sentences to passive ones or to just fix a subordinate clause because of comma splice. Those were just some of the lessons, but all were done so well that Phelgey realized that we doesn’t know grammar good and decided to give us a quiz. This quiz really made us reflect on how we write and speak, which is important to understand because these are the same kind of confusion students will have. Finally, the class ended with Tara winning the Teacher Idol competition and we left.