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Nov. 3rd, 2010 02:18 pmThis morning, one of my students brought in the poems currently displayed on our local busses.* Another responded with "Hey, I went to college with that bloke." So it was poetry on our busses by people we know. I instantly dumped my class plan, and we had a great deal of fun talking about the poetry.
I didn't dump word of the day (WOD). We talked about 'bloke' (which has a particularly cool history) and 'parlour.' From here on in, none of us will mention "Australia's first bloke" without thinking about where the word came from.
I tried to dump story of the day (SOD tried to sod off?) but my students insisted on one. I told them about Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus and the brazen head. In passing I may have mentioned the Quaestiones and that Thomas thought a great deal of himself. It's just possible.
The class went on to write stories about the brazen head. Things grew quite funky at this point. My favourite sentence was "I was standing next to Albertus Magnus when he gave Thomas the brazen head." It's the start of so many possible tales, all of them fascinating. Another student didn't want the head to give truths of the universe - he made it up rather nicely, instead, with some mascara, rouge and a good lippy.
Midday came all too soon.
*I teach the class how to use apostrophes and my students bring in public poetry. There's a lesson in that, somewhere.
I didn't dump word of the day (WOD). We talked about 'bloke' (which has a particularly cool history) and 'parlour.' From here on in, none of us will mention "Australia's first bloke" without thinking about where the word came from.
I tried to dump story of the day (SOD tried to sod off?) but my students insisted on one. I told them about Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus and the brazen head. In passing I may have mentioned the Quaestiones and that Thomas thought a great deal of himself. It's just possible.
The class went on to write stories about the brazen head. Things grew quite funky at this point. My favourite sentence was "I was standing next to Albertus Magnus when he gave Thomas the brazen head." It's the start of so many possible tales, all of them fascinating. Another student didn't want the head to give truths of the universe - he made it up rather nicely, instead, with some mascara, rouge and a good lippy.
Midday came all too soon.
*I teach the class how to use apostrophes and my students bring in public poetry. There's a lesson in that, somewhere.