Caity CO - 2

May 26

I observed Jennifer’s listening class in which they were continuing an activity from the previous day, so there was no in depth activity explanation. The students were watching a video of a lecture from a professor at FSU about civil rights issues. Listening was the focus so many students didn’t pay too much attention to the video itself. The professor in the video had quite a round about way of explaining things and would tangent into a personal story more often than not, but when the students had to provide answers about his lecture, they were right just about every time. Some questions did come up and if the student posed a question as a fragment sentence, Jennifer would ask if they would repeat their question in a full sentence. They were able to do so every time; they just needed a reminder. The were able to define vocabulary on their own, even ‘Hippie.’ We listened to a lecture about Martin Luther King Jr., which brought up some vocabulary questions about ‘minister, pastor, priest, and pacifist.’ I thought it was interesting that students were worried about mixing up the pronunciation for ‘pastor’ and ‘bastard.’ Jennifer told the students to be careful as using ‘bastard’ might bring about the fury of an old lady and her purse. It had me thinking what other words would be mistaken for curse words with the wrong pronunciation? The students also made connections with Gandhi and talked about the draft to express their ideas relating to the audio. Any word choice errors Jennifer repeated back to the students, which they were able to correct. The students definitely had a lot of good ideas and were able to build off each other, especially when coming up with definitions, and Jennifer was able to incorporate humor and some sarcasm that was well received.