Cooperative & In Unison

Elementary ESL Teacher:

"Why did you choose this text?", I asked the ninth grader, noticing the I Have A Dream speech in his hands.

"I had always heard about MLK and wanted to read the speech," he smiled. He gave me a copy and gathered the other two members of his group to the table.

They began to read aloud together and at the second sentence, a student breached, or stopped the group, "Five score? What does that mean?"

"A game?" a student replied.

There were no handy dictionaries, so I gave them my phone to google it. They learned a score was equal to twenty years, so five score meant 100. "Why didn't he just say that?" a student quipped. "Well, it's a speech, and that's an old-fashioned way of speaking, so maybe he is just trying to make it sound special or formal." Satisfied, the group kept reading.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 27, 2012 1:55 AM
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