I gave my elementary students another "Thinking Project" the other day. This time the subject was a little bit morbid, but it wasn't exactly my choice (it's part of the curriculum that I have to administer). Our reading for the week was on organ donation, strangely enough, so the thinking project aimed at getting the kids thinking about what they would like to do if they had only three months left to live. They then had to take that "Make A Wish Foundation" themed list and turn it into a song. I wasn't kidding when I said "morbid," right?
Here is one group's list of things they want to do before they die:
1.) Travel the world
2.) Shopping
3.) Body adventure
4.) Kill all of the boys
Except I guess they thought twice about number three, since it was crossed out and "Explore in the body!" was written in its place. I refrained from commenting to this group of girls that they might find number three challenging if they carried out number four. Maybe that's why number three came first on their list? In any case, here's the song they finally came up with:
WHAT I WANT TO DO
I will die in three month. Oh! Oh! Oh! My money.
I want to go shopping.
I will travel all the countries
Because I can't use money after I die.
And also many countries are also very beautiful,
And I die.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Blue Blazers and Almond Pizza
Let me put this on the table before I say anything further: I am not a huge fan of Korean pizza. The don't put nearly enough tomato sauce on it, and the dough is soft and sweet, hardly deserving of the denotation "crust." In addition, Koreans love to put strange things on their pizzas, like corn and sweet potato. Today, the level of stangeness increased, as I bought a slice of pizza and discovered that in addition to cheese and sausage (and, unfortunately, CORN), the pizza was topped with a veritable bushel of sliced almonds.
Another less than pleasant discovery today: I thought it was normal and acceptable to dress up your look a little bit by throwing on a blue blazer. When I tried that little trick for an open class today (this is when parents come to watch your class, a stressful affair to say the least), the Korean teacher told me that I looked like a high schooler. Then I remembered that (literally) every high school across the country has an almost identical blue blazer as part of its uniform. So now I know what garment to don when going for that "youthful" look.
Another less than pleasant discovery today: I thought it was normal and acceptable to dress up your look a little bit by throwing on a blue blazer. When I tried that little trick for an open class today (this is when parents come to watch your class, a stressful affair to say the least), the Korean teacher told me that I looked like a high schooler. Then I remembered that (literally) every high school across the country has an almost identical blue blazer as part of its uniform. So now I know what garment to don when going for that "youthful" look.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Students Turn the Problem of World Hunger into a Catchy Jingle
In one of my intermediate classes, the topic of the three-hour long session was world hunger. Near the end of the lesson, I broke the students up into groups and asked them to compose a song treating the topic of world hunger. Here are a few of the results, unedited and unabridged. Incidentally, I have no idea how they learned to use "yo" in song lyrics. I certainly didn't teach them that.
JINGLE HUNGERS (to the tune of "Jingle Bells," by a group of three boys)
They are dying.
They are dying.
It is not their fault.
They are dead.
They are dead.
What's you gonna do.
DONATION (a rap song, by a group of two boys calling themselves "Dark Sides of Street")
Yo. There is peoples in this world buyin food at market. But do remember there is peoples thrown out at streets baggin for some cashes and changes. What do we do? Nothin! We don't freakin care about this hommies and hobos. Instead we seat in the house at couch watchin TV.
Hunger...!
It is beatin the crap of them.
We gotta help this hommies.
Donate your money, food, and time.
There are people dyin in hunger. You know that there are foods, but it goes to the waste baskets. It's such a waste you know. They ain't got food, job, moneys, we need to help them! They are dyin out there.
C'mon.
YELLOW HOT CHARLIE CHOCOLATE (a song by a group of girls calling themselves "Burning Green Rabbit")
People are dying yo
We are living yo
So we have to help them
They are so poor
Hunger is bad I think so
Go on and donate your time
Volunteer your time
People are in hunger
Give money and food and
Time to them
Go on and donate your time
Volunteer your time
JINGLE HUNGERS (to the tune of "Jingle Bells," by a group of three boys)
They are dying.
They are dying.
It is not their fault.
They are dead.
They are dead.
What's you gonna do.
DONATION (a rap song, by a group of two boys calling themselves "Dark Sides of Street")
Yo. There is peoples in this world buyin food at market. But do remember there is peoples thrown out at streets baggin for some cashes and changes. What do we do? Nothin! We don't freakin care about this hommies and hobos. Instead we seat in the house at couch watchin TV.
Hunger...!
It is beatin the crap of them.
We gotta help this hommies.
Donate your money, food, and time.
There are people dyin in hunger. You know that there are foods, but it goes to the waste baskets. It's such a waste you know. They ain't got food, job, moneys, we need to help them! They are dyin out there.
C'mon.
YELLOW HOT CHARLIE CHOCOLATE (a song by a group of girls calling themselves "Burning Green Rabbit")
People are dying yo
We are living yo
So we have to help them
They are so poor
Hunger is bad I think so
Go on and donate your time
Volunteer your time
People are in hunger
Give money and food and
Time to them
Go on and donate your time
Volunteer your time
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