TA #2 Jordan

My first class with Candace was a few weeks ago but it was very interesting. The students were working on vocabulary that day. The vocabulary that was pertinent were household items and various rooms. They were asked to partner up in twos and draw and label a house. As I walked around it was intriguing to see which rooms they were putting in their house besides the usual rooms like kitchen and bedroom. Some designs of the roof and the front yard were interesting. Various styles of architecture was represented.Now this is the story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-air In west Philadelphia born and raised On the playground where I spent most of my days Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys, they were up to no good Started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared And said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-air" I whistled for a cab and when it came near the License plate said "fresh" and had a dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought nah, forget it, yo homes to Bel-air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabby "Yo, homes smell you later!" Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of bel-air. Eventually the class progressed into describing the houses by speaking aloud to the rest of the class and focusing on pronunciation. It is interesting to see which students struggle with certain words and sounds. Each student was required to pronounce each word several times and tell the part of speech. I thought that the class went well and I like observing on class days with nothing special planned. The objective of the class was simple, to explore and solidify their knowledge of basic parts of the house as well as common items in the house. The class ran smoothly with the exception of a few hard words like refrigerator and attic. The word attic while it was hard to say the students did have a difficult time pronouncing the long A. Some said the word like a-tic instead of aat-tic. The only thing that I would change about the class would be adding a role playing activity where the students would partner up and describe their parent's house.