First English Lesson of My Very Own

I taught my first lesson, one on my very – one that I didn’t just help lead, on Monday May 23rd. I began my lesson by reminding the students, from last week’s assingment to bring pictures, what scrapbooking is in the United States. Since scrapbooking is a fairly foreign concept here in Italy I decided toh ave all the students create their own scrapbook page. They were provided with scrapbook paper, markers, and stickers. The students brought pictures to class. The students were asked to decorate their pages with stickers, pictures, materials such as a ticket from the enven in their picture (scrapbook scraps), and then write in English their age in the picture, what is happening in the picture, who is in the picture, possibly how the event was (fun, exciting, etc.) and of course their name.

A good number of students forgot their photos but they still participated by imagining what photo they will bring to the next class adn writing about that imagined picture. The students did well adn they used the English I asked them to use, with some reminding and some writign of that English on the board. I asked the students to say things such as, “May I please use the scissors, markers, glue, stickers” adn we worked together in English, in Italian, adn wiht a pocket dicitonary to understand each other. The students worked hard the entire hour and the hour itself flew by. Once everyone’s page is completed I will put all the pages together in the scrapbook I brought. I will present the pages to the class in a scrapbook that I brought and when it is presented we will have a wrap up discussion on what scrapbooking is and why people in the US scrapbook.