Here is a picture of me at my desk wearing my "party-carty." Look good. Feel good. Play good. Things have been a little chilly here in Tegucigalpa, especially in the mornings. Hence, the need for more layers of clothing. Things have been going pretty good here at work. My students wrote some excellent essays considering symbolism in Steinbeck's little novella The Pearl. I was very proud of them and their work. We are now moving on to Wells' The Time Machine, the students are presenting background research on various topics that I assigned them in order to prep for their reading of this short text. We head full steam into the text next week. One other thing that I have been stressing recently is sentence diagramming. I did not do this when I was in school and as I got further into my education realized this was a major handicap. It was only when I began to learn Koine Greek that I began to learn English grammar. When learning Greek, I found sentence diagramming to be very helpful for me, so I am hoping it will be helpful for my ESL kids, which is pretty much all of them. Well, that is all for this brief update. I hope to offer my reflections on El Salvador soon, either tonight or tomorrow, mos def.
BP signing out.
Dude, that sounds great! I had a very similar experience with sentence diagramming, which I encountered for the first time in 10th grade, and it helped me understand grammar so much more intuitively... it became a self-consistent set of rules instead of an arbitrary system of placing commas wherever they "looked right" etc. I wish I'd practiced it earlier and more often...
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