tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44083432619385390882024-02-07T00:28:33.595-08:00To Teach and LearnStories from the classroom and beyond.Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-70774077156363821112018-10-27T04:17:00.000-07:002018-10-27T04:17:28.377-07:00Teaching Poetry an ESL Teaching Technique <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">According to Sidhu, Fook and Kaur (2010), literature-enriched curricula facilitate learning of target languages through avenues of life experiences and composition in an ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom. Furthermore, he asserts that these curricula have the capacity to improve reading and writing skills where development of grammar and vocabulary can be internalised by learners. Poetry is often viewed as a predominant genre of literature, where learners can explore the potential of poetry instruction as a technique in an ESL classroom. This is a valid assertion, which has recently gained significant attention in relation to ESL classrooms (Hess, 2003). Therefore, this essay will detail poetry as an ESL learning technique and justify its validity as an effective ESL teaching tool. In addition, this essay will outline methods and techniques that teachers can apply to help their students understand and appreciate poetry. Furthermore, the essay will detail how poetry can facilitate the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The target learners analysed in this essay are high school students who learn English as a second language. The ideas presented in the essay will be validated by current research studies and teaching pedagogies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Teaching poetry as a technique has been selected for this essay as it expresses emotions and experiences from life. Correspondingly, students may be able to relate effectively to meanings they come across in poems they study. McRae (1991) argues that literature is language ‘in use’, possessing the potential to motivate learners to explore and read as they enjoy text and unconsciously learn language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, Savvidou (2004) augments this claim with the assertion that studying literature, unconsciously improves learners’ linguistic knowledge including syntax, morphology, semantics and phonetics. In this way, poetry as a predominant mode of literature, can be explored as an ESL learning technique where its study and analysis can motivate learners and develop their skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This technique will focus on exploring thinking, speaking, reading and writing skills of ESL learners through poetry instruction. Some of these techniques and elements are flexible and can be applied to other forms of literature such as stories and also drama. This essay will deliver insights into the ‘9 step formula’ that Hess (2003) presents as an effective technique for teaching poetry. Furthermore, it will explore Praveen’s (2003) guide to appreciating and learning from poetry. These steps/techniques will be analysed and tailored to meet the learning needs of the target learners in a lesson plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The application of poetry instruction in ESL classrooms has been substantially researched where there are numerous case studies that validate its efficacy (Saito, 2008; Gulla, 2012; </span><span style="color: #555555; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Savvidou, 2004</span><span lang="EN-US">). Sidhu et al., (2010) states that teaching poetry provides learners the opportunity to discuss literary elements such as plot, point of view, setting, values and themes. In discussing these elements, learners are challenged to think critically and creatively. The critical thinking takes place when learners study poems, whilst the creative materialises when learners construct their own poems. However, Praveen (2007) asserts that there are three crucial areas that require focused attention for a poem to have maximum effect and develop appreciation. These areas are: cultural background of poems, rhythm and poetic craft. Learners have to be guided to understand the functions of these three areas in order to develop appreciation for a poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Explanation of the TESOL teaching technique <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The two academic articles that will augment this chosen TESOL teaching technique are: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real Language through Poetry: A Formula for Meaning Making</i> by Natalie Hess (2003) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guiding ESL Learners to Appreciate Poetry </i>by </span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chandrasekharan Praveen</span><span lang="EN-US"> (2007). These two articles will be discussed in detail with close reference to my own experiences of poetry instruction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Both Hess (2003) and Praveen (2007) assert that with appropriate instruction, poetry has the potential to enhance language competencies as poetry serves as an extension of our experience in life. Correspondingly, learners can easily relate to poetry as its learning becomes natural and intersects with their own lives. Learners are able to easily relate to poems they study as they begin to appreciate poems as vehicles of thought in constructing language. Whilst Praveen (2007) presents essentials for appreciating poetry, Hess (2003) theorises a ‘nine-step process’ for poetry instruction. These nine steps are: Trigger, Vocabulary Preview, Bridge, Listen (react and share), Language, Picture, More language, Meaning and Spin-off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first step in Hess’s model (2003) refers to the ‘Trigger’, where learners can have more than one trigger that can create the initial spark and curiosity motivating learners to explore a poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trigger initiates the creation of mental images, maps or landscapes that facilitate the process of comprehending the poem. They can consist of pictures, anecdotes, quotations, or any devices that may help the teacher discuss the possible contents of the poem. Hess (2003) uses pictures as triggers to start discussion about faces and opinions that we create about other people when we don’t even know them. The poem used by Hess (2003) in her article is ‘Richard Cory’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This initial activity focuses on speaking skills, as students work in pairs to present their ideas to the whole class. On the other hand, Praveen (2007) asserts that for learners to fully appreciate poetry, it is crucial that they understand the cultural background to a poem. The emphasis here is on prior knowledge that can augment the process of appreciating a poem. Therefore, teachers may have to provide cultural context and supplementary information so that learners can develop better understanding of a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my classroom I have often used the title of a poem as a trigger. Discussing the title of any poem helps the learners anticipate the possible content of the poem and also enhance their comprehension later when reading the poem. With certain titles, a pre-activity of writing their own poem on the same topic can also serve as a trigger where they can later compare the poem they wrote with the poem they are studying. I affirm Praveen’s notion (2007) about the importance of knowing cultural backgrounds of poetry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have facilitated poetry instruction requiring background information in order to fully appreciate a poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second step is the ‘Vocabulary Preview’ where Hess (2003) suggests presenting 7-10 words that are difficult but essential for students to understand a poem. Furthermore, she asserts that teachers should not explain the words before eliciting the meaning from learners. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In context of what Praveen (2007) asserts, the vocabulary concerned here can be words that are specific to certain cultures where it is important for the teacher to make students understand their context. In my classroom, I scaffold vocabulary that is important to understand poetry where in groups or pairs, I instruct students to discuss meanings and how words may be relevant to a particular poem. The third step is the ‘Bridge’. According to Hess (2003) the ‘Bridge’ is a sentence or two that links the trigger activity to the poem. In addition, the ‘Bridge’ helps to clarify key ideas within a poem by connecting the trigger activity to the content of the poem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The fourth step is ‘Listen, React and Share’ where learners listen to the teacher reading the poem 2-3 times, write their first impressions of the poem and share them with classmates (Hess, 2003). Praveen (2007) states that in order to appreciate poetry, listening to the rhythm patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables is important as these sound patterns express different emotions. I find this activity essential as it provides learners the opportunity to develop listening skills and also tests their own understanding of the poem. Furthermore, learners may compare their thoughts with their friends by discussing the impressions they have acquired. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The fifth step in Hess’s (2003) technique is ‘Language’. It is the stage where the poem is critically analysed through the language that is used (Hess, 2003). This stage is important as the learners explore meanings of the poem focusing on lexical patterns and vocabulary that may connote numerous possible meanings. I find this stage very important and often see it as the most challenging, as the teacher must facilitate creative and critical thinking. Visualisation and imagination are key aspects of the sixth step, where both Hess (2003) and Praveen (2007) state that teachers must enhance the learners’ focus on images used in the poem to create visual images in their minds to understand and appreciate a poem. The seventh step, ‘More Language’ further explores the meaning of the poem, as at this stage learners develop adequate understanding of vocabulary and meanings that are associated with a poem. Applying critical analysis to interpret the meanings of the poem through juxtapositions with poems that have similar themes is a key aspect within this stage. The eighth step, ‘Meaning’ emphasises the theme/meaning of the poem where Hess (2003) argues that providing a list of possible meanings for learners to choose and justify enriches their overall understanding of the poem. Furthermore, students are encouraged to share their chosen meaning with their colleagues to compare and develop a broader understanding of the poem. Finally the ninth step, ‘Spin-off’ consists of real world activities based on ideas or themes from the poem that the teacher can use to assign writing and reading tasks. For example, Hess (2003) designs activities like interviewing Richard Corey’s housekeeper for a newspaper article, where students brainstorm the kind of questions they would ask and later role-play the interview. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lesson plan illustrating the use of the technique is given in the appendix.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Justification of how the lesson plan is representative of the chosen technique. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">According to Gulla (2012), learners find authentic voices when they express their emotions and experiences in relation to the poems they study. In this way, language skills are learnt and acquired in a playful and effective manner. The lesson plan (see Appendix A) focuses on enhancing language skills like reading, listening, speaking and writing using a medium where learners are able to relate with the emotions that imagery in a poem represent. The topic of the lesson is poetry but the focus of the lesson is applying techniques that foster skill development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first focus of the lesson plan is the ‘trigger activity’ (Hess, 2003) where learners brainstorm what they may expect in the poem. This technique emphasises interpreting the title to predict the content of the poem. Discussing the title of the poem facilitates prior knowledge development in relation to the content of the poem. Therefore, thinking aloud about the title of the poem or assigning students to write a poem using the same title provides the critical thought process for what the poem might be about. This technique can be used to teach all genres of literature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kletzien (2009) states that learners’ knowledge of vocabulary and teachers’ resourcefulness to make contextual meanings available for learners via scaffolding is crucial for comprehension. This lesson plan provides vocabulary that is important for learners to understand the poem but does not provide insight into meaning. Consequently, students within the lesson will be instructed to explore the possible contextual meanings in groups. According to Hess (2003), guiding learners to elicit the meanings of words on their own enhances vocabulary acquisition skills as learners learn to pronounce, spell and use these words in their own sentences. In addition, meanings can be explored in context of the poem as learners discuss the vocabulary used in the poem (Hess, 2003). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the key components of the lesson plan is the reading of the poem. The teacher models the reading and later students do ‘choral reading’. Both Hess (2003) and Praveen (2007) assert that reading the poem as many times as possible will enhance learners’ understanding of a poem. Therefore, the lesson plan places extra emphasis on reading the poem. Learners listen to the teacher reading the poem 2-3 times and then they do a ‘choral reading’ and also read in their groups and then individually. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the primary objectives of the lesson plan is to facilitate critical analysis of the poem. It is at this stage of the lesson plan that learners develop critical understanding as they analyse the language and meanings in the poem. The appreciation of the poem can be further emphasised where the technique focuses on the imagery used in the poem. The most important aspect here is to guide learners to develop critical appreciation of the language that is used to express varied emotions and experiences. The final ‘spin-off’ activity in the lesson plan reinforces creative thinking and enhances writing skills as learners explore the theme of the poem in context of their experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Poetry instruction is a valid and reliable teaching technique in ESL classrooms. As mentioned earlier in this essay, numerous studies have asserted the advantages of using poetry instruction as a TESOL teaching technique. Poems express emotions and real life experiences that learners can relate to personally and through the study of poetry language learning can also be enhanced. The techniques used in the lesson plan (see Appendix A) present a structured approach to teaching poetry demonstrating skills that are effective in helping students comprehend poetry and develop appreciation for language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hess’s (2003) ‘nine-step process’ to teaching poetry is a useful example of a structured approach that is inclusive of teaching language skills where poetry is the vehicle to explore and achieve language-skill development. Furthermore, this essay correlates the key aspects and concepts proposed by both both Hess (2003) and Praveene (2007), to develop a holistic approach to teaching English language through poetry instruction. The ‘nine-step process’ augments learning development as students develop adequate comprehension of the poem as a group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, this essay affirms the efficacy of poetry instruction as a TESOL teaching technique with focused emphasis on integrating critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at various levels facilitate developments in English language proficiency. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gulla, A. N. (2012). Make room for our voices: Using poetry in professional development for secondary ESL and ELA teachers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">English Journal, 101</i>(3), 92-94. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kletzien, S. B. (2009). Paraphrasing: an effective comprehension strategy. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading Teacher, 63</i>(1), 73-77. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Praveen, C. (2007). Guiding ESL learners to appreciate poetry. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Internet TESL Journal, 13</i>(8), 1-2. Retrieved from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/PraveenPoetry.html <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saito, A, P. (2008). Between me and the world: Teaching poetry to English language learners. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching Artist Journal, 6</i>(3), 197-208. doi: 10.1080/15411790802134319<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Savvidou, C. (2004). An Integrated Approach to Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Internet TESL Journal, 10</i>(12), 1-2. Retrieved from http://iteslj.org/ Techniques/ Savvidou-Literature.html.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sidhu, G. K., Fook, C. Y., & Kaur, S. (2010). Instructional practices in teaching literature: Observations of ESL classrooms in Malaysia. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">English Language Teaching, 3</i>(2), 54-72. doi: 10.5539/elt.v3n2p54<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hess, N. (2003). Real language through poetry: a formula for meaning making. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ELT Journal, 57</i>(1), 19-25. doi: 10.1093/elt/57.1.19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Appendix A: Lesson Plan <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US">Lesson Topic</span></u><span lang="EN-US">: ‘We are Seven’ by William Wordsworth (Poetry)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US">Objectives</span></u><span lang="EN-US">: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Appendix B: Poem used for developing the lesson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She had a rustic, woodland air,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And she was wildly clad:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her eyes were fair, and very fair;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Her beauty made me glad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sisters and brothers, little Maid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How many may you be?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How many? Seven in all,” she said,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And wondering looked at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And where are they? I pray you tell.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She answered, “Seven are we;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And two of us at Conway dwell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And two are gone to sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Two of us in the church-yard lie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My sister and my brother;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, in the church-yard cottage, I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dwell near them with my mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You say that two at Conway dwell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And two are gone to sea,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sweet Maid, how this may be.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then did the little Maid reply,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Seven boys and girls are we;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two of us in the church-yard lie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beneath the church-yard tree.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You run about, my little Maid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your limbs they are alive;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If two are in the church-yard laid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then ye are only five.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Their graves are green, they may be seen,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The little Maid replied,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Twelve steps or more from my mother’s door,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And they are side by side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My stockings there I often knit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My kerchief there I hem;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there upon the ground I sit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And sing a song to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And often after sun-set, Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When it is light and fair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I take my little porringer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And eat my supper there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The first that dies was sister Jane;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In bed she moaning lay,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Till God released her of her pain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then she went away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, when the grass was dry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Together round her grave we played,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My brother John and I.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And when the ground was white with snow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I could run and slide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My brother John was forced to go,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he lies by her side.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How many are you, then,” said I,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If they two are in heaven?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quick was the little Maid’s reply,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“O Master! we are seven.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But they are dead; those two are dead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their spirits are in heaven!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’Twas throwing words away; for still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The little Maid would have her will,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And said, “Nay, we are seven!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-31155876391813100622014-12-03T00:22:00.002-08:002019-11-26T20:48:56.598-08:00Faith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tshering sat in his chair and struggled between his faith and his disillusion - an intense tug of war in his mind. His upbringing told him that he had to have complete faith. Even the stories he read as a boy said that if one has complete faith and blind devotion, then one can find the Buddha in the most unlikely things/places. But the modern educated man in him questioned the being before him. He recalled who some of his friends called the Rinpoche, "Rinpoche James Bond" and talks about womanizing and partying kept him occupied and very confused.<br />
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He would have not been there in the hall had it not been for his best friend, Kinley. While Tshering was confused, Kinlay, on the other hand, was fully immersed in everything devotional. He sat next to Tshering, peacefully luxuriating in the warm radiance of the Rinpoche.<br />
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The Rinpoche finished his oral transmission and the audience applauded. The Rinpoche smiled and said that the applaud was not necessary. He was not a show-man but still thanked the people gathered in the hall.<br />
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Later outside the hall, Kinley and Tshering were with Kinley's mother. The Rinpoche was passing by and the three stepped aside. They bowed as the Rinpoche passed by.<br />
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"Your son?" Rinpoche asked Kinley's mother. The mother nodded in response.<br />
"How come? An ugly monkey like you to have a handsome son like this boy!" The group of people following the Rinpoche laughed and some giggled. Tshering saw Kinley's Mother turning red and trying an awkward smile.<br />
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Tshering didn't know what to feel, he was caught by surprise. Later he felt deeply insulted even though the remark was not intended at him or his mother. He felt anger on behalf of his friend. He felt it was justifiable as Kinley was his best buddy. He couldn't believe how the Rinpoche could say such a thing in front of everybody to one of his most faithful disciples. But he held his thoughts.<br />
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Later when Tshering was alone with Kinley, he finally shared. He expected similar and equal feelings from his friend if not very overwhelming. But he was disappointed with his friend's response.<br />
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Kinley said, "The Rinpoche said those words on purpose and for a good reason."<br />
Ahem...<br />
"By embarrassing my mother in the crowd, the Rinpoche was cleansing my mother's demerits." </div>
Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-66769442399806292722014-10-22T22:56:00.001-07:002023-06-20T12:47:54.880-07:00Story Writing in the classroom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Stories have always been part of our lives. We grow up listening to bedtime stories, we watch movies and read books but writing a good one is so difficult.<br />
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Story writing carries 30 points out of 100 in the English BHSEC (Year 12) exams. Another 30 points are for argumentative essay writing and the remaining cover the language and the grammar. A student has to manage writing all of the above within 3 hours. Say if we budget the time: 1 hour for essay, 1 hour for a story and the remaining 1 hour for the rest. So, finishing it can be very stressful.<br />
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I have to teach my students to write a good story within one hour. I manage to teach but I am not confident if I can write a good one myself within 1 hour.<br />
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So, in my class, we try to work out a few plots which we may be able to fit into any plot that is demanded by the question. Slight changes to the plot and we are writing the story asked by the question. Some of the things we can have ready for a story are setting, the main character, and few conflicts. But the emphasis on using from one's experience is given a lot of importance. Our children are fascinated by everything foreign; people and places. So they set their story in New York, Korea, and their characters are foreigners, not realizing how easy it would be to use places they are familiar with and the people they have known/know.<br />
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Most of the students also feel that a story begins with the main character being born and growing up, falling in love, heartbreaking and then ends with the main character becoming successful/dying old. Doing this sometimes also makes the story monotonous, especially if the writer is not very skilled. So rather than writing a story like the one mentioned above we write a narrative descriptive essay. A narrative essay is not different from a story, it has all the elements and it is easier to write if one sticks to things that s/he experienced; certain experiences that they remember because they were interesting/funny/sad.<br />
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The most difficult aspect in story writing, I feel, is creativity. But in case of writing one's experience the writer needn't worry about it much. In doing this, the students can always be creative and make changes where ever they think, the changes might make their story more intense and exciting. Another thing is that it is easier to form them because nobody can tell their story better than themselves.<br />
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The students start by working in groups of four or five and later they write their story individually. <br />
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Four maps are the worksheets that get the foundation of the story laid.<br />
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<i> 1.The Setting Map</i><br />
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<i>Where does the story take place? </i><br />
<i>When does the story take place? </i><br />
<i>Certain descriptions of sound/small/place </i><br />
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<i>2. The Character Map </i><br />
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<i>Name of the character </i><br />
<i>Gender of the character </i><br />
<i>Positive qualities </i><br />
<i>Weaknesses</i><br />
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<i>3. The Conflict Map</i><br />
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<i>What is the problem?</i><br />
<i>What causes the problem?</i><br />
<i>External conflict/Internal conflict?</i><br />
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<i>4. The Resolution Map</i><br />
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<i>What leads to the solution of the problem?</i><br />
<i>What are some of the changes in the main character/other characters?</i><br />
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As I watch and monitor my students planning, discussing and writing their own stories I take a break and wonder "Why the first Bhutanese to win a Booker prize may be right here."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <i>I don't know too much...? no harm in dreaming I guess. </i><br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-49499239867840308132014-10-15T00:30:00.005-07:002023-06-20T12:51:03.672-07:00Ethics in Statesmanship <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The story 'Test' written by Theodore Thomas is studied in class twelve. It is a futuristic story where people who want a driver's license are made to go through hypnosis. The State hypnotizes the applicants and they are made to experience a traumatic accident. The man who represents the State mentions that the primary objective of the test is to make drivers more careful. But what the State truly intends to achieve through the test is to make the people refuse their driving license. And those people who still want a license even after the traumatic experience are taken into custody.<br />
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The theme of the story is very interesting and it presents a lot of room for critical thinking and interactive sessions in the classroom. We can have debates and panel discussions on the theme. The theme is "Ethics of the power of the state to control its citizens". </div>
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So, as expected, discussing the theme was very interesting. It was very interactive. We started with questioning, "Why should the government control its citizens?" The collective response was good. They (students) felt that the Government/State should control the citizens through good law and policies because there has to be order. But if the State is not ethical, it misuses its power and that would lead to injustice and rights of the citizens getting restricted.<br />
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A story like this came with the new curriculum. As a student, the stories I read in my English textbook were very good. The language, plot, and theme were also good but they didn't have pressing issues to discuss. And even if there were, the teachers didn't facilitate much discussion. Through a story like this, I believe, our students will become more critical/analytical of how the state is functioning and realize the possibilities of the state misusing its powers and their right to question the state. </div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-46585334965601234572014-09-19T04:06:00.000-07:002019-11-26T21:00:08.167-08:00Saturday Movies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Media and IT Club in my school show English movies on Saturdays when there are no other programs. The Saturday movies are English movies and they are presented solely to help the students develop their English listening skills. Like one must read to write good English, one must first listen, to speak.<br />
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This initiative was born last year when we had an American English teacher. Her name is Sarah Schmitt and together we decided those good Hollywood movies would do our students a lot of good when it comes to developing listening skills and picking up functional English usage in their everyday conversations.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRH4aA-T3m6a_0g41_0KS0tL20YJWs-vAbL1lLEoqP1G4HHz_wnQYjOU4XeJxVLtGMBNvlDQrhodItAV4rTuyLHxRRyqu_0gZvHjmwdlWrjHaaNyb6K-iUW4V8wvIKfJ5LCQCZkMMAkOQJ/s1600/IMG_5424.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRH4aA-T3m6a_0g41_0KS0tL20YJWs-vAbL1lLEoqP1G4HHz_wnQYjOU4XeJxVLtGMBNvlDQrhodItAV4rTuyLHxRRyqu_0gZvHjmwdlWrjHaaNyb6K-iUW4V8wvIKfJ5LCQCZkMMAkOQJ/s1600/IMG_5424.JPG" width="320" /></a>So far the media club has only been able to present two Hollywood movies; The School of Rock and Pitch Perfect. But these movies were received well. The students enjoyed them and hopefully, we will be able to let our students watch more good Hollywood movies in the future. And I am pretty sure that we will be able to because the school administration is very supportive. The Saturday movies are not compulsory, so we picked movies that are not so serious but fun and movies that tell stories to which they (students) can easily relate. Million Dollar Baby was picked once but we decided to save it for a later time when our audience is more matured with their listening skills. The next movies waiting are The Book Thief, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Giver...<br />
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As an English language teacher, I also see how I can discuss the elements of a short story through these movies. Each movie is a story and so it has all the aspects of a story like a plot, setting, characterization, conflict, and resolution. Writing the story of the movie in their own words will augment their story writing skills and some can even get creative by changing certain things in the story if they want to.<br />
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I hope the 'Saturday Movies' become a good culture in the school. </div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-9762889666080546222014-08-29T10:30:00.000-07:002019-11-26T20:50:54.396-08:00No Hitler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Inter-House Speech Declamation Competition was the third literary program conducted in my school this year. We had some larger-than-life personalities and like every year we had Adolf Hitler. As far as I can remember we have always had students declaiming Hitler in speech declamation competitions. Even as a student I remember many Hitlers winning the competition. Hitler would commence and end his speech with thunderous applause from the audience. As a student, I didn't understand his speech but I liked seeing Hitler in these competitions because he was the loudest (most of the time) and the most amusingly dressed character with his most queer mustache. My teachers never told me more about what he did and why he is remembered.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEYrk1FJs0_M9RhOyI5XZhF2M47jUpqoXVhQGO8Qy9S7NncTHem4tUY872e1hTm8Z0qWxHED-P8eRtyVCcibewRg2w7M1H55urBtr4UuFatE8qgzILy269N781ahbhwMZhWmc78ZFZa3VM/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEYrk1FJs0_M9RhOyI5XZhF2M47jUpqoXVhQGO8Qy9S7NncTHem4tUY872e1hTm8Z0qWxHED-P8eRtyVCcibewRg2w7M1H55urBtr4UuFatE8qgzILy269N781ahbhwMZhWmc78ZFZa3VM/s1600/images.jpeg" /></a>The class twelve boy who took up the role this year presented an impressive performance. He did well but he did not win. A part of me found the joy that Hitler didn't win the competition but another part of me felt sorry for the boy who lost. It was not his fault that he lost nor was it because he choose to declaim Hitler. It was my fault as a teacher or our collective fault as a school for only teaching what is in the textbook. We did not and do not make our students realize that Hitler is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews out of the 55 million deaths during the 2nd World War.<br />
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As Hitler this year went on shouting "Jews!" "Jews!" "Jews!" the hall roared with laughter.<br />
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So starting next year, Hitler will be barred from the declamation competition and the teachers will explain why. </div>
Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-78900179433383563362014-07-09T05:57:00.003-07:002019-11-26T20:52:40.729-08:00Exam Hour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is a beautiful day. The sun is shining. The birds are
chirping. The sun’s ray flicker on the leaves as they rustle in the gentle
breeze that gushes softly from the river below. Inside the class, the fans
swing their hands slicing the air like warriors in a heated battle. The fans’
rotating sound is disturbing. Other than the soft flipping of the pages,
falling pencils and pens and a little cough here and there, nothing is heard in
the room. A pin dropping on the floor can be heard. Naïve but stern faces over
papers are a spectacle to observe as each individual face has a story to tell.</div>
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First, there are the ‘no-nothing’ faces that are the easiest
to spot in the group. It is amusing to watch them as they sweat and scratch
their heads as if doing that will make the answers fall out of their jammed
heads. Their eyes linger in mid-air thinking about what they should write just
for the sake of not leaving the answer scripts blank. But at the same time, it
is painful to watch their struggle. There are moments when I feel I could help
them, maybe give them some clues, point out some correct multiple-choice
answers etc. But I cannot forget that I am a teacher and being there is to make
sure that the exam goes fair. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next is confused but ‘little knowing’ faces. They
also have their own share of the struggle - the price they pay for not working
before. Since there is not much to write, the part they do write is given all
the time they have and as far as the neatness is concerned they get full marks
leaving aside the correctness of the answers. They are also interesting to
watch. They roll their eyeballs here and there hoping to catch a glimpse of
what their friends are writing. Some stretch their necks so much towards their
friends’ scripts that I have to ask them to stop or they might turn into a
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For some, the exam comes as a delight to satisfy themselves
with the answers they promptly know. And for others still, it is the reward for
all the hard work they have put in. Some receive the question papers, go
through it, and smile a satisfied happy smile as if they got the toy they always
wanted for their birthday. Some smile at the question paper as if they have met
a long lost friend. Their smiles sing of happiness. It is a smile you are happy
to join, as a teacher.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, in the end, everyone is happy. The exams are over
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-73082542979537388722014-05-21T22:42:00.002-07:002019-11-26T21:01:57.027-08:00The Nature of Langauge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Nature of Language was not studied in the old English curriculum. It came with the new and it came with a wide possibility of answers that can come from anywhere, as long as it concerned language albeit the syllabus, which I doubt I can call one. The teachers were given three pages of notes on theories of language acquisition, levels of analysis and other basic terms in linguistics. I received the notes from a colleague of mine who attended a workshop on teaching Nature of Language. The same thing was to be taught from class nine till twelve (as far as we have been informed). Students have to write answers to 10 points under this section in the exam.<br />
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Since the questions (set by the teachers who are put together by BIG SEA) don't follow the specified notes, most students lose marks in this section. Few questions always surprise/confuse us. Students may lose only one or two points but they lose and sometimes they don't qualify for a RGoB scholarship because their English marks is one or two points short. <br />
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If I may, I see this section allotted to Language as very ambitious but bleak and obscure to most teachers, given the material for teaching and our (teachers) knowledge of Language. Furthermore, the BHSEC teacher's guide asks teachers to invent activities on language study. I am lost as an English Language teacher with the Nature of Language.<br />
Forgive my ignorance if I am wrong but I see little requirement for school students to study this in school and if they have to then the curriculum should cut out a clear and definite sub-curriculum for teaching Nature of Language and the teachers should be convinced why this has to be taught.<br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-9286131784954184792014-05-07T01:57:00.001-07:002019-11-26T20:58:58.705-08:00Role Playing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs45FgcjEXzA1h6sVxWu1ddmGJpqlMdk-jVx3Z8TiOj7fJRYqTIP_PexgTFaUm8hnYSAnvOUO2RCzi8Lh9FpmqKaHIczqEu3CshN8PRK36AgMYN0X4xm2vF_LLEB2p_nCIAoizjom5RZaK/s1600/IMG_4475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs45FgcjEXzA1h6sVxWu1ddmGJpqlMdk-jVx3Z8TiOj7fJRYqTIP_PexgTFaUm8hnYSAnvOUO2RCzi8Lh9FpmqKaHIczqEu3CshN8PRK36AgMYN0X4xm2vF_LLEB2p_nCIAoizjom5RZaK/s1600/IMG_4475.JPG" width="320" /></a>I remember my language teacher and Shakespeare. He would try to impersonate a victorian theatrical scene with the Shakespearean English that he so stylishly uttered to our bewilderment. Most of us then were amazed by the strange poetic language heard for the first time and few were, of course, dumbstruck because the English was different and difficult. But the excitement only lasted for the first few periods. After that, it was only listening to the teacher, period after period. Even the most promising student slowly drifted away into daydreams. <br />
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Thinking about it right now, a role play would have made the whole awesomeness more exciting or simply put, more durable and understandable.<br />
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Today I had to watch the same drama role played four times and each time the drama became more exciting with the characters improving with their dialogues and the acting. Each team is a performing theater group. The teams have leaders, who also take the role of the director. Since they work in groups, they are talking, laughing and discussing which keeps them awake and engaged, even if it is the last period.<br />
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But this is the closest we get to a drama class in Bhutan. I wish there was more to it than the short plays and the role playing. </div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-75604792217232121602014-04-28T04:04:00.003-07:002019-11-26T20:53:16.784-08:00Why didn't the poet use simple language?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today, one of my students asked me why did poets write poems in languages that were difficult for the students to understand. He said, "Why didn't the poet use simple/straight forward language?" It was a straight forward question and I tried my best to satisfy him with an answer.<br />
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He said that he liked the second sentence. I asked why and he said the second sentence was more beautiful and I asked him why again and he said because the second sentence was talking about spring. </div>
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Then I told him to close his eyes and listen to the second sentence when I read it. I asked him what pictures did he imagine when he heard the words. He told me that he saw the rain in the spring. I asked him what else did he see and he said, "flowers". I told him to imagine the rain on his face and asked him if he would like the feel of the gentle rain in spring when feeling hot. He said "Yes". Why? "Fresh feeling". </div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-11284704890142833682014-04-18T00:00:00.001-07:002019-11-26T20:53:47.833-08:00Teaching Poetry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have always loved poetry. My all-time favorite is Ulysses by Tennyson. At the moment I am teaching 'We are Seven' by William Wordsworth and it is a joy to read it aloud with my students. Every word conjures pictures so vivid that I can't help but live the moments and sing the song.<br />
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Before reading the poem, my students wrote their own poem on the title 'We are seven' and that was an overwhelming experience to draw the pictures with their words. Pictures of seven stars that wrote, pictures of seven friends they spoke, and pictures of the seven beautiful colors of the rainbow arched over snow-capped mountains and the wide-open sky did they draw. It is a beautify poem, 'We are Seven', the simplicity with which Wordsworth touches on the subtle pleasure of being innocent and living in ignorance of death and the bliss that follows.<br />
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———A simple Child,</div>
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That lightly draws its breath,</div>
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And feels its life in every limb,</div>
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What should it know of death?</div>
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I met a little cottage Girl:</div>
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She was eight years old, she said;</div>
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Her hair was thick with many a curl</div>
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That clustered round her head.</div>
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She had a rustic, woodland air,</div>
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And she was wildly clad:</div>
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Her eyes were fair, and very fair;</div>
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—Her beauty made me glad.</div>
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“Sisters and brothers, little Maid,</div>
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How many may you be?”</div>
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“How many? Seven in all,” she said,</div>
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And wondering looked at me.</div>
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“And where are they? I pray you tell.”</div>
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She answered, “Seven are we;</div>
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And two of us at Conway dwell,</div>
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And two are gone to sea.</div>
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“Two of us in the church-yard lie,</div>
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My sister and my brother;</div>
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And, in the church-yard cottage, I</div>
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Dwell near them with my mother.”</div>
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Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell,</div>
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Sweet Maid, how this may be.”</div>
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Then did the little Maid reply,</div>
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“Seven boys and girls are we;</div>
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Two of us in the church-yard lie,</div>
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Beneath the church-yard tree.”</div>
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“You run about, my little Maid,</div>
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Your limbs they are alive;</div>
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If two are in the church-yard laid,</div>
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Then ye are only five.”</div>
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“Their graves are green, they may be seen,”</div>
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The little Maid replied,</div>
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“Twelve steps or more from my mother’s door,</div>
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And they are side by side.</div>
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“My stockings there I often knit,</div>
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My kerchief there I hem;</div>
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And there upon the ground I sit,</div>
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And sing a song to them.</div>
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“And often after sun-set, Sir,</div>
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When it is light and fair,</div>
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I take my little porringer,</div>
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And eat my supper there.</div>
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“The first that dies was sister Jane;</div>
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In bed she moaning lay,</div>
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Till God released her of her pain;</div>
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And then she went away.</div>
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“So in the church-yard she was laid;</div>
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And, when the grass was dry,</div>
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Together round her grave we played,</div>
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My brother John and I.</div>
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“And when the ground was white with snow,</div>
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And I could run and slide,</div>
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My brother John was forced to go,</div>
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And he lies by her side.”</div>
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“How many are you, then,” said I,</div>
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“If they two are in heaven?”</div>
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Quick was the little Maid’s reply,</div>
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“O Master! we are seven.”</div>
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“But they are dead; those two are dead!</div>
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Their spirits are in heaven!”</div>
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’Twas throwing words away; for still</div>
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The little Maid would have her will,</div>
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And said, “Nay, we are seven!”</div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-5231422079845432652014-03-06T22:54:00.002-08:002019-11-26T20:56:45.598-08:00To Kill a Bear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In one of my classes, we were discussing commitment and bonding in the story, Bluffing, by the Canadian writer Gail Helgason.<br />
In the story, the two main characters come across a grizzly bear. They face it together but one runs aways and we were later discussing which character was more committed to their relationship. With this, there was brainstorming and sharing of understandings of bonding and commitment.<br />
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One of my students wanted to share a story he heard. He didn't go into the details but said that a father and a son can kill a bear but not two friends. He said since there was a stronger bond and commitment between the father and the son, they would not abandon each other but the friends may only think about themselves and render themselves vulnerable to an attack. So, a father and son can kill a bear but not two friends.<br />
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I never heard the story/saying before but I felt its message was very augmenting to the values that enrich our lives.<br />
I am very happy that I have students like this boy. His name is Nono Jimmy and he is a bright boy. </div>
Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-37618481208029109192014-01-15T01:00:00.000-08:002019-11-26T21:04:37.672-08:00Ten Reasons why I want to go back to school<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Winter vacations are good times. They give
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<span lang="EN-US">But in the middle of forgetting the time I can’t
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-23772739275462404462013-11-12T22:11:00.000-08:002019-11-26T20:55:25.404-08:00Argumentative Essay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I met many challenges, many I never anticipated as a teacher. But at the top of the list, without any doubt will be teaching how to write an argumentative essay. I had no idea but I had to teach it, it was totally frustrating and scary at that time. The English curriculum was new and so was I. But that was not the problem, the problem was no getting any help because most teachers were new to the curriculum and the orientation program missed the teachers at PHSS. The scariest situation for a new teacher is letting your guard down, in this case, mine was having no idea about the essay and hoping my students would not ask me about it every day.<br />
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The teacher's guide (BHSEC English) didn't help because it doesn't have even the slightest diminutive tip/hint on the essay. The essays given for study in the textbook were confusing. And I cursed the damn essay/s and the people who wanted teachers to teach this essay. I later found out the curriculum specialist themselves (national) were not very sure about the different essays that were expected to be taught. None of the essays in the textbooks (11 &12) fit into the argumentative essay format or the pattern. It was very frustrating at times when I could not find any help. The school didn't have internet and most teachers had their own vague ideas about the argumentative essay anatomy.<br />
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So, I drove 10 km every evening to my father's office for about two weeks to browse for samples and online help. After spending substantial time and scanning through numerous sites and samples I finally discovered the one that we teach our students today. I don't know if it is the best sample but we are making it do with our students.<br />
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But I also found out that writing an argumentative essay has many good learning aspects and the essays that I wrote as a student can never be compared to what my students write. It is different from other writings. It helps one to be more critical and it stimulates one to consider aspects from different angles that rig and ascertain the validity of the argument. It helps one think at the higher levels of analysis, evaluation and creating a stand in an argument. A writing that is rhetoric and firm makes a good argumentative essay. I see it to be far more matured than the other essays. It may not let a writer play with words and give it the spontaneity of the creative mind but it certainly helps one gather one's functional language vocabulary and practice using it.<br />
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The link below will take you to the sample essay.<br />
<a href="http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/types%20of%20essays/ARGUMENTATIVE%20ESSAY.htm" target="_blank">http://www.buowl.boun.edu</a><br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-3938161611488905272013-11-04T01:03:00.001-08:002019-11-26T20:46:41.345-08:00Superstition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Bhutanese have
a superstition that certain women have negative spirits (cultural gender discrimination). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">These bad spirits are
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soendae. </i>The soendae live
within a person and thrive when they are able to make other people sick. The
person who is the host has little knowledge of the negative spirit living
within her. When a soendae has visited a person, that person becomes sick or
sometimes even die if the remedies are not carried out in time. When one washes
his or her body with a herb called tsoe (rubus), scratches appear on the
part of the body that has been exposed to the <i>soendae</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In certain
parts of Bhutan, it is also believed that the <i>soendaes</i> maneuver in the form of
small flames, hopping and wiggling from place to place. And if one is brave
enough to whack it with a stick, the host becomes sick the next day. Bruises
appear from the beating received. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is also
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proceed with their hunt. If the hunt is unsuccessful, then the weakest soendae
will have to sacrifice her child or her husband. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>The dark clouds
hovered in the distant horizon. Lightning flashed, crackling the bleak sky and the thunderous roar followed. Flames sparked, wiggled playfully
and consumed themselves into forms out of the dark misty air. They gathered at
a dark stone slab where they convene their usual meeting. It was hunting
season. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>Through the
window a vague hazy scene of a family having dinner is seen. The view hovers
from one window to the other zooming in and out on the people in the house;
all the while the people are unaware of the visitor. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>While the
family is busy the one-year-old baby is crawling and is playing. The visitor
tries to break in but at the door the guardian deity flairs so it hovers to a
window. Seeing that the window is open, she slips into the house and moves towards
the baby. It observes the baby from a distance and sudden fear engulfs it. It sees
the baby fearlessly munching everything in its path. It chews a comb, a doll, a
steel mug, and goes on and on. Salivating and mauling with groans and cries it
moves fearlessly. The soendae hovers back and in its ghostly paleness, it almost
disappears as fear strikes its very being. With a swirl of twist and zooms, it
vanishes. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is also
believed that demons/ghost/witches/evil/soendae fear babies (1-2 years) because
the baby knows no fear. It puts everything in its mouth; a basic survival
instinct. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-29199970179746722592013-10-29T20:22:00.002-07:002019-11-26T21:01:18.228-08:00Cold and Teaching<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now that winter has come, I like the cold weather while teaching. The cold weather is my ally in the classroom. The cold keeps my students awake and active and it, in turn, keeps me energized. I tell my students that we draw our enthusiasm for the lesson from each other. Though teachers and students volley the lesson's mood and progress, the teacher has the maximum strike. If they look dead it sucks the energy out of me but if I am dead then there is no other ignition to light up the fire in the classroom. If I see my students cold and shivering but very alive, it gets me going. That is why the cold is good in the classroom because it eases my effort. It an oxymoronic idea to have the students feel cold and fire at the same time.<br />
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So, the Cold creeps into my classroom and I welcome it. It sits on a chair and is with us. Some of the boys wrap their kabneys around their bare knees as the Cold comes and caresses them. The caressing is kind in a strange way. It doesn't have the warmth that a kind touch should have but its kindness is realized when one clearly understands the happenings in the classroom.<br />
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The Cold is an effervescent co-teacher in my classroom. It helps me get my job done. <br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-27510059811489490602013-10-17T19:46:00.002-07:002019-11-26T20:51:39.662-08:00A teacher named 'Gift'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Students can go to amazing imaginative limits
to create nicknames for teachers. They are sometimes arbitrary but sometimes
quite logical. The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soera</i> means
gift in Dzongkha. Twelve years ago, I first heard the nickname <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soera</i>. I was a student then. It was a
nickname for Lopen Gembo Tshering. Over the years his nickname has changed to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shakam</i> (dried meat) because of his lean
physical stature. I am not sure whether the students today still know him as Lopen
Soera but when I was a student many only knew him as Lopen Soera and not his
real name.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmCO-lKmKXy3lDQbn_3ett7pB7GVt3vxQgk-iYXFJe6O1ywf88mS6GoxhmoY9IJAuZp7hy2wQIASyvQDNyLcjToXyW3HhjVwnkHfRZaZqnN8jCHckxknyAH3lqVtNa2NrZhsvZ67laEw4/s1600/IMG_1306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmCO-lKmKXy3lDQbn_3ett7pB7GVt3vxQgk-iYXFJe6O1ywf88mS6GoxhmoY9IJAuZp7hy2wQIASyvQDNyLcjToXyW3HhjVwnkHfRZaZqnN8jCHckxknyAH3lqVtNa2NrZhsvZ67laEw4/s320/IMG_1306.jpg" width="240" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Like anyone with a nickname story, Lopen Soera
also had his. Every time his students misbehaved in his class, he would smile
and tell them to come and receive their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soera</i>.
His old face would conjure a tired smile as he flexed the bamboo stick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">His other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soeras</i>
were also unique and became quite popular with the other teachers. During study
hours if he caught you polishing your shoes or combing your hair and not studying,
you had to repeat whatever you were doing during the interval and the lunch
break, at the assembly courtyard, later in the day or the next day. Hoards of
students would laugh and pass by the boys who did everything but study during
the study hour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Frog jumps were another of his favorite <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soeras</i>. He would make you jump like
frogs around the school building. The number of the rounds depended on the
severity of the offense. At the time of the jumping it would always be smiles
and laughter but the effects of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soera</i>
only took its toll after few hours or a day when you had to use the squat
toilet or climb the 165 steps to the hostel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As a student, I was once absent from my evening
study. The next day Lopen Soera called me during the interval and told me to
make five rounds of frog jumps the school building. I explained and muscled all
my convincing power to plead and beg because my girlfriend was watching me from
the second floor. He must have been in a good mood or I must have been really
convincing because he let me go with a warning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But this writing is not about Lopen Soera’s
famous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soeras</i>, it is about his selfless
dedication and unwavering love for the children and the teaching profession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In 1980, three years before I was born, Lopen
Soera joined a remote school in Tsenkhar, in Tashiyangtshe. He came to Punakha
HSS in 1994 and resigned this year (15<sup>th</sup> May, 2013). During his
thirty-three years of teaching career, he has touched many lives through his humility
and exemplary work ethic. All respected him, not because he was the senior-most
teacher but because he was thoughtful in all the various aspects of his job
responsibilities. His classroom stretched beyond the four walls and he educated
his students and colleagues alike in values that are humane and integral to us
as human beings and also as members of our society and as citizens of our great
nation. He served the school, the government and the country with the utmost
dedication down to the last day as if it was the first day when he joined the
noble profession thirty-three years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All in the school cherish Lopen Soera’s
legacies. He is credited with many initiatives and they give us joy in the same
humble ways he did when he was with us. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gembo
Meto</i> is one prominent symbol of Lopen Soera’s love. The school relentlessly
tried to grow a purple flower vine over a trellis. For two years the flower
refused to extend its tentacles and creep up the iron-gate until Lopen Soera
poured his love and time and it blossomed with radiance and pride. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The rock garden behind the school is a proud
display of creative enthusiasm by the students that became possible because of Lopen
Soera. He gave them the necessary reason and the scaffold to turn the waste
area into a place of beauty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lopen Soera loved working with students and the
students in turn looked up to him like the grandfather he reminded them of at
home or, for a few, the grandfather they never knew. Whether he was the TOD
(Teacher on Duty) or not he would come early every morning and do the SUPW
(Socially Useful Productive Work) with his students. I like to think that he
found purpose and meaning in letting students learn from his actions more than
his words. He would show them rather than tell them. The school nature park developed
further with his energy. Today the park is a place away from the noise and busy
school happenings, though it is right below the national highway. Students
study in the serene ambience of the many canopies that are in the park. I hope Lopen
Soera receives the merit for every peaceful feeling or happiness that the
students, teachers and tourist feel when they are at the park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Within the class, Lopen Soera’s wisdom and
knowledge made his subject, Dzongkha, a joy for his students. He had the most
vital quality that every teacher should have: patience. I believe he has
mastered this virtue almost to its perfection. In his classes he shared stories
from life and with his patience he would make learning easy and fun. Within
thirty-three years he had taught classes from preprimary to class twelve. His
students who sat for the board exams always produced 100% pass results and he
would smile humbly while mentioning his students’ success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Though Lopen Soera is no longer in the school,
his presence is still strong because we feel him in the flowers he planted, we
see him in the driftwood he artistically selected and placed in the park, and
we hear him in the prayer flags that flutter in the cool afternoon breeze. He
is still with us for now, though time will fade memories of him, his spirit
will endure in the legacies that he has left behind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-10793602845247362552013-10-05T00:58:00.001-07:002019-11-26T21:05:24.036-08:00The Tapori Legacy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the hi-light of the show, for me, was the <i>tapori</i> dance. It was absolutely
entertaining and the crowd loved it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b>Tapori</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> literally translates into </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_(person)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Vagabond (person)">vagabond</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> or rowdy in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Hindi">Hindi</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">. Street thugs in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> were perhaps the most notable taporis. Their unique style of speaking Hindi was called tapori language. They also had a unique style of dressing, which they called as tapori style. Tapori culture though resented by many is widely imitated by many as humorous or comical. It has found acceptance in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> films including "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangeela_(film)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Rangeela (film)">Rangeela</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">", "Gol Mal", and "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chashme_Buddoor_(1981_film)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Chashme Buddoor (1981 film)">Chasme Buddoor</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mazumdar_1-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapori_(word)#cite_note-Mazumdar-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> They are the equivalent of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangstas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Gangstas">gangstas</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Hollywood">Hollywood</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> films.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">The <i>taporis</i> spice up the annual concert at my school and it looks as though they are going to stay for a long time. Two years ago a boy named Palden came to study in class eleven. He was a joy on the stage and he would dance as if he was the most handsome boy in the hall. Every muscle in his body exhibited passion as they swayed and flexed with the tempo of the music. In dance, your face has to equally do the job your other body parts are doing and Pelden knew that very well. The gleeful mischievous facial expressions on his face were...(as somebody put) mind-blowing. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">The hall would come alive with his rowdy group and it was hard not to tap your feet. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nono and his new recruits performed last night and it was again...MIND-BLOWING. </span></span><br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-83710726132846227162013-09-17T03:00:00.000-07:002013-09-17T03:00:57.714-07:00Our Children, Our Investment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Above me, I have a UNICEF year planner (calendar) and on it I read, <b>"Our Children, Our Investment". </b>Below this line,<b> "A nation's future will mirror the quality of her youth- a nation cannot fool herself into thinking of a brighter future when she has not invested wisely in her children"</b>- His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan.<br />
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I stop to think about it and write few lines that wing my way because I am a father, a teacher and a citizen of my country and the World. These words ring so very true that I find my purpose renewed in life.<br />
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On the calendar I see pictures.<br />
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I see a young girl drenched in sweat but smiling like the flowers smile at sunshine. Her eyes squint as her face cajoles a beautiful smile that is full of hope.<br />
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I also see kids playing football, galloping with energy and in innocence, warming up for the future they are to give us. With pure energy, they exhibit undaunted spirit for our future.<br />
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Three children stand with smiles that are radiant and full of life. Their faces are full and show beautiful white teeth. In their stand I see their strength and in their shyness I see humility.<br />
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In another picture a group of children are eager and are crowded over a boy with his notebook. May be he is showing his friends how many 'goods' he got from his madam. I see the leader in him, strong and proud.<br />
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In the last photo, a father is washing cloths while the mother and the baby sit and watch. They are all smiling and the baby, who is younger than a year old, has a wide smile. Its mouth is widely opened and makes one feel the encouragement it is making its father feel.<br />
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They will smile into the future and will shine bright, but only if we nurture them. <br />
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Very few joys in life can equal the joy that children give us.<br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-53159625502266891622013-09-11T23:19:00.000-07:002015-06-03T04:12:07.433-07:00Without Internet and Television<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span">I have no internet at home. </span>When we first moved to our house I desperately tried to get internet and television connections. I bought a satellite TV receiver but the location of my house and the signal didn't comply. I and two of my friends from school carried the signal receiver and made rounds of my house and surrounding, searching for the TV signal but the signal was illusive and shy. My friend, the TV expert, concluded that the signal was blocked by a hill above my house. For the internet connection I requested a friend of mind, a Bmobile employee, and even wrote an application to the manager but my location and area was not on the Bmobile investment list.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So, the post I post on my blog are squeezed through little windows of time I find in my teaching schedule. Though I enjoy being able to post, I must say it takes away my time. The time that is meant for notebook correction and continuous assessment marking. Without the internet and television, me and my family, are ignorant of the happenings elsewhere. At home we don't know the outside world. We are in our own little world. To watch a big EPL match I need to drive or ride four kilometers from home. We listen to an old portable Phillips radio, from my college days, and it keeps us sufficiently updated at home. </span><br />
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However, a home without internet and television has made it warmer. My wife reads to my son or tells him stories, rather than being on Facebook. We sit and chat over dinner. My son tells me about what he learnt at his daycare and which boy bullied him. I listen to my wife's happenings of the day and share mine. We do gardening and water the fruit trees. Without internet and television we are disconnected with the world but have renewed and found new connections at home.<br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-67630422942172465582013-09-07T09:32:00.000-07:002013-09-11T03:46:56.273-07:00Being Alive in the Classroom <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As a student I never thought how my body language, my facial expression and my participation in the classroom would dictate my teacher's enthusiasm in teaching me and my friends. May be it was because the teaching then was only about the teacher. The students had to simply listen.<br />
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I sometimes wonder how I would have been if my teachers had involved me in the learning. I was always a quiet boy in the class. Even when I knew the answer I would muffle my desire to speak out.<br />
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But as a teacher I cannot stand zombies in my classroom; there are few in every class. Their dreamy eyes droop like rich poppies, heads are supported in their cupped palms, loosely sit in their stiff wooden chairs and I can always tell who smells dead in my class.<br />
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It is sometimes interesting to have zombies in the class because they give you the excuse to stop for a while and talk about things other than the textbook. Everything is interesting but the text. But the teaching must go on. <br />
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1. Attention on the particular student (primary)<br />
2. Call them by their names (by their full names)<br />
3. Ask questions (textbook help)<br />
4. Questions that are not from the textbook can be more efficient sometimes; are you ok?/sick?hungry?/sleepy?/tired?...<br />
5. Ask them to do something for you (makes them feel useful) and thank them<br />
6. Crack a joke (always a good involver) if you can't ask a student to volunteer<br />
7. Involve them: group task/whole class<br />
8. Take a break<br />
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-90255112720939202782013-07-30T07:02:00.001-07:002019-11-26T20:43:07.718-08:00Dzongkha Class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "corbel";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did what I had to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "corbel";">The ingenious
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiataqteYxsjhicyy7iD_mWXdD8ibHez-019bVlE_Fi3BgyOFJxciXpbNRUI8EgYrS2Lggu4cJnryZIV-FLi1VNLOqeBSmhsfUsRXKBXYMRlIDTP3zpO4XKrYzrikPK83-_MBaixBYrsHeD/s1600/IMG_2060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiataqteYxsjhicyy7iD_mWXdD8ibHez-019bVlE_Fi3BgyOFJxciXpbNRUI8EgYrS2Lggu4cJnryZIV-FLi1VNLOqeBSmhsfUsRXKBXYMRlIDTP3zpO4XKrYzrikPK83-_MBaixBYrsHeD/s200/IMG_2060.JPG" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "corbel";">I sat at my
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offense and he would take no excuses. Sitting there, I looked at the blank
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teacher, I realized later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-3495382101149622672013-07-18T02:37:00.001-07:002019-11-26T21:02:56.468-08:00A bedtime story?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">My son loves ghost stories. I try my best
with the few ghost stories that I know and when I run out I have to create them.
Most of the time before I finish a story he falls off to sleep but there was
one story that we were able to finish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Dangphu<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dingphu…</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> there
lived a demon. He had ten heads. The demon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doe</i>
as we Bhutanese know it, was very strong and intelligent and it was all because
he had ten heads. He could think ten times faster than an average demon and all
his senses were ten times stronger and clearer than other demons. He had long
hair on all his heads. He had fangs in all his ten mouths. He had ten pairs of
bulging bloody eyes and ten pairs of huge sharp ears. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Strong and powerful as he was yet these
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failed to redeem him from his troubles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Taking care of his heads took most of his
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for a demon but this demon had ten heads and only one pair of hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One stormy night when the demon was about
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castle and into his bedroom. He thought of not answering the door as he was
tired from his daily ordeal of taking care of his heads but the bang seemed
desperate and persistent. As he opened his door he saw a girl drenched by the
rain. She was cold and shivering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She could not see him clearly as he stood in
the dark behind his half-opened door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The girl pleaded and begged for a night’s
lodging. He said he didn't have any empty rooms and was about to shut her out
when she said she could work for him the next day, just one day’s work for the
night’s lodging. He thought about what she could do. There was no work around
the castle but he could ask her to wash his heads. So, he asked if she knew how
to wash heads. The girl seemed confused but she said she knew. He told her to
close the door behind her and to sleep on the floor by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thab</i> (oven). The girl closed the door and expected to see her host
but there was no one. She was in a dark hall, all by herself. Everything was
dark except for the faint glow of light from the dying embers in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thab</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As she laid her head on the wooden floor
she thought about the lost cow she had come looking for. But she was too tired to
continue worrying about the cow and quickly fell asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next morning when the girl opened her eyes
she was terrified to see the demon before her. But the demon assured her that
she will not be harmed if she kept her promise, rather she would be rewarded
with riches if she was successful in what she was to do. Yet every muscle in
her wanted to fling herself at the door and run as fast and as far as her
little legs could carry her. But the demon said he knew what she was thinking
and that it was useless. He then told her that her work was to wash his hair on
all his heads. The girl felt relieved to know what she was to do. But she was
wrong to think it was a simple job. Throughout the day she labored; heating
water, oiling his heads, soaping his hair and by the end of the day she was
only able to complete washing two of his heads. And when she wanted to leave
she was told that she would not be allowed to go, as she did not finish her
job. So, she continued the next day and the day after and then the day after
but her work never seemed to finish. It was as if she forgot how to count and
felt every day like she was starting all over again and again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally one day the girl came up with a
plan to completely free herself. She heated pig’s fat instead of water and told
the demon to take his usual nap in the sun, which he usually took when she
washed his heads. And he usually went into a deep slumber never waking up until
she finished her job for the day. She took out the knife which she had been
sharpening every night. The steel glowed in the midday sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The demon was startled when he opened his
eyes. A strange yet familiar face stared at him. For the first time he was
scared in his life. It looked like him but was different. It took some time for
him to realize he was looking at himself in the huge mirror that was placed
before him. The only difference was that he now had no hair on his heads. He
was bald. As he screamed the girl’s name, she appeared slowly from behind a
tree where she had been hiding. He rushed to choke the life out of her when she
commanded him to stop and told him that she had completely gotten rid of his
problem. She explained that with his hair he had also lost the irritation. She
shaved his heads and oiled them with the pig’s fat so that the hair would never
grow back. His hair was the price he had to pay never to suffer from the
problem again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He could feel the cool air on his heads. He
felt his heads with his hands and the feeling was prickly and strange,
something he had never known before and there was not the slightest itchiness
to bother him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The girl left the bald but happy demon with
all the gold she could carry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nobuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245598981198856011noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408343261938539088.post-36875159503322710792013-07-16T00:27:00.000-07:002019-11-26T20:50:19.184-08:00The Spoon Thieves <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The first spoons were of gold, forged in the heavenly blue fires of the Gods (Lha). Men were brute then and dinning manners unknown. Happy as the Gods were beholding man, it deeply troubled them to watch a man feed. Thus, the Gods counseled among themselves to resolve this brutish eating manner and gifted the first of their spoons to the first kings of men.<br />
Beings from all the realms witnessed and glorified the Gods for their noble deed. But not everyone was with the same mind and heart. Some disapproved of man's worthiness and claimed the civil hand for themselves secretly fearing the Gods' wrath if they openly laid their claim. The desire lurked like the long dark shadows of the deep woods and drew darker and stronger lines with the light from the godly moon.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The Lhamoens (</span>Lesser Gods) <span class="Apple-style-span">were the feistiest and fiercely nurtured their desire to lay their hands on the spoons. It was they who defied the Gods and announced the gift unfit for the brutes like men. But in the "Great Wars of the Gilded Spoons," the Gods silenced the rebellion and sealed a peace with promises of the immortal blood of the </span> Lhamoens.<span class="Apple-style-span"> The Gods rested in peace, rest assured that man will enjoy the spoon gift. Divine as they may be, they lacked the shrewdness to trust the Lesser Gods. What the Gods failed to foresee in the bloody promise, the Lesser Gods read with malicious intent and growing desire and vengeance, once again. The promised words spelled, "The Lesser Gods shall not lay claim to man's spoons for all eternity" but it did not tell of any other being who could become their hand in taking away the precious spoon gifts. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">Thus, the Lesser Gods summoned the </span>Michums (<span class="Apple-style-span">Little People) from the forgotten realm and struck a bargain with them to steal the spoons. The Michums would be rewarded with the key to the hidden door that led to the world of men and find their way into the stories for children. They will be remembered and thus not fade away into time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">So, even today the Michums find their way into the houses of men and take away the spoons when it is the darkest of nights. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">If you don't remember your spoons they disappear from your kitchen closet and if you ever wonder why; the Michums took them. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">As I was sitting in the waiting room, I saw
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in the hospital because her stepmother was sick with cancer. As we went on
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<span lang="EN-US">After saying what she said, Choden (my
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thinking about this line I feel I have been able to Role Model certain aspects
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chance on I talk about my wife. Once I was explaining <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘withheld’</i>. I told them it is the past tense of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘hold’</i> and that I love holding my wife
more than my boys. They giggled and I gave them a general observation; for most
men/women their wife/husband becomes secondary after a baby is born. This should
not be because it will be the wife or the husband who will grow old with you.
Happiness begins at home. Unless I am happy at home I will never be happy in school or teach them well. So, I told them that they should thank my wife
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<span lang="EN-US">This is my seventh year in teaching and I
have continued to use my wife as a teaching aid in my lessons. I hope I will
never get tired of talking about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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