Model School Updates, Week 4

9.9.10

While this week has been basically pointless in a lot of ways – we gave them their final early on Wednesday, so since then we’ve just been playing games – it’s also been relaxing and entertaining (despite PC’s inability to deliver the mail for 2+ weeks)… the opposite of weeks one through three.


Highlights of the week:
- Vocab-inspired Hangman/Taboo/Pictionary – essentially all we’ve done since we gave them their final on Wednesday
- During my lesson, a girl had to draw “diarrhea” for Pictionary. Her drawing was excellent, and the entire class had their hands raised. The first response: “Is it ‘to shit’?” Um, no, that’s not a vocab word.
- Rosa teaching the whole class “Sorry Ms. Jackson” as part of her lesson on apologies. If you’ve never heard a classroom full of African children belt out an American song, you’re missing out.
- I didn’t get to see all of the other classes, but other groups have taught their classes “Bad Romance,” “What Is Love?” and the Happy Days theme song.


Tomorrow we (Dione, Rosa and I) are team teaching a two-hour lesson, and we’re doing nothing but games and an original song to the tune of Rihanna’s “Disturbia”. Our version: “Malaria”.

Malaria
by Dione, Rosa, and Lissa

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Got a fever and chills
And I need to vomit,
Have you heard what’s been said?
We need to speak about it about it.
Got a pain in my head
And I feel so tired
Feels like I’m going insane, yeah

If you stay out at night
They’ll come and bite you,
If you sleep with a net
They can’t infect you,
The disease can be stopped,
It won’t control you
You just need a doctor.

Malaria! Prevention is the key.
Malaria! There are a couple things you need.
Malaria! It starts with you and me.
Malaria! Malaria!

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