In a fit of inspiration I decided that for the third term, I would combat late-year ennui by letting each of my classes pick what we would focus on. I gave them three choices, Current Events, US History, and Grammar. I naively thought that they would want Current Events and US History as that is what they had been the most enthusiastic about thus far.
For the previous terms, I taught roughly the same lesson to both sections of 4 & 5 and a variation on the theme to Senior 6. It did not cross my mind that each class would choose a different focus. There is absolutely no one to blame but myself. I simply did not anticipate that Senior 5 MCB would choose Grammar with Current Events being a close second and that Senior 5 PCM would choose “All.” Senior 4 MCB chose US History but Senior 4 PCM chose Current Events. Senior 6 PCM also chose Current Events, but they refuse to write anything down and thus the class needs to be debate and speaking focused- whereas Senior 4 needs to work on writing and is too huge to have a majority of debate/speaking.
Today, I said there no such tense as “past progressive.” There is.
Ooops.
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