Experiences in USA

Bio Poem

                                                      I Am Poem

I am a woman on a search
I wonder how people can live better
I hear children crying
I see no social equality
I want to see a better world

I am a woman on a search.

I pretend everything is fine
I feel happy imagine all the people living in peace
I touch my children
I worry about the future of Humankind
I cry when I see no justice
I am a woman on a search.

I understand we need to do our part
I say everybody we can do many things to have a better world
I dream to see my dreams come true
I try to be a better woman working as a volunteer in my church, in my city
I hope more people are interested to be a volunteer in any place, too
I am a woman on a search.

Mentor Meeting

We had our first mentor meeting and it was very useful for all of us. Our mentor Natalia is a great teacher and a very nice person.
She gave us a lot of tips how to work better using the TULP and she showed us a lot of books and activities to use in our classes. It was fantastic!!!

History Class

I am surprised with my feelings about History! Because I always thought History as a difficult subject, with boring classes, tired meeting. But in the first day Dr. Hendrick surprise me with a Bio poem activity. I loved to do and to share with our classmates. Dr. Hendrick is a wonderful teacher, she really knows how to make the History class become interesting! We read books about Cherokee way of life and after she went to North Carolina with us to know the Cherokee Community. We read the book of Martin Luther King Jr and I was fascinated with his Life History. A man who fought to have equal civil rights between with and black people. He fought without violence. I really admired him. Thanks to Mr. Hendrick to create a great desire in me to study more about American History.

Lenoir City observation

 I had the opportunity to attend some classes at Leonir City School. First we arrived at the school and we attend a class of Mr. Susan Brwon. She teaches English for foreign students. I was fascinated with her way to teach English, she used many kinds of games, fun activites and she has a mascot (a bear) that helps her in the class, the children feel more confident to talk to the mascot and say many sentences in English. Another thing I learned with the teacher is when we teach a language we have to emphasize the sounds of the letters to work with phonetics, work with a lot of visual  recourses like posters, flashcards, toys, etc...
After attending classes in Elementary School, we went to High School and we attend American Literature class. The class was very interesting and we could interact with his students talking about everyday activities at school. I loved that school because all the students treats me so well, asking questions about Brazilian students and schools. I could meet a Spanish teacher there, too. His name is Santiago and he is my funny and competent teacher. He called Flaviane and me to take a picture with him in his classroom where there is a Brazilian soccer player`s shirt. His students are very interested to know things about South American. I love this experience! I could see how teachers work well in USA and how can I improve my classes in Brazil.

I love sharing Knowlegde with my students!

Pre Reading Lesson Plan

Names: Diva Pidde

Maria Araujo

Zara Mustafe

Book: Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin

Objectives:

Content Objective: Students will be able to understand the value of having a vegetable garden at home and discover the magic that grows in it (with a little help from parents), and they will be able to give value to healthy food.

Language Objective: Students will be able to re-tell de story representing a play with the vegetable vocabulary words and emphasize the friendship constructed while the vegetable garden was planted.

Learning Strategy Objective: Students will create a word list of different names of vegetables: and other words about garden.

Activate Background Knowledge: Tell student they`re going to listen to a real story about a little girl and her family. Invite the students to see a real vegetable garden at school if there is one there, or go to another place, if possible. If this action is not possible, show the pictures and ask some questions such as: “Do you like vegetables? Have you ever seen a vegetable garden? Do you know how good the vegetables are for our health? Do you eat vegetables? How often do you eat vegetable? How do you eat vegetables? Do you eat salad? And soup?”

Introduce New Vocabulary: carrot, pumpkin, tomato, potato, lettuce, onion beet, cabbage, digs, plant, water, shovels, hose, grow, harvest.

Show some pictures of vegetables and ask the name of the vegetable on the picture and repeat the name several times. Afterwards, show the pictures with the names of the vegetable. Next, show a Bingo card and play a Bingo Game with different pictures in different orders, and give a prize to the winners.

Picture Walk: They are very curious and excited about the story of the book and they are going to listen it with enthusiasm. Go through the pages observing the pictures and ask the student to describe them and lead the students to guess the scenes they are seeing.” Who is this girl in the first page? Who is this woman? Is she her mother? What are they doing? What about this people, who are they? What are they doing? Are they their neighbors? Why is the mother writing on these papers? Look at the garden! The plants are growing!”

Post-reading

Ask the students to take vegetables the next class to prepare salad and soup together

I'm Diva. I've been an English Teacher for 13 years. I work in a Public School in the morning and in a Private Course in the afternoon. My Major is English and Literature. I really like my job because I like interact with my students to share ideas and knowledge.
I always tell my students how important is studying English because we can communicate with people around the world.