Guess what picture I used in my lesson today?

[Pale Blue Dot]

We just finished reading The Iliad, and I'm having my students create a pro-war/anti-war poster, speech, song, or essay for The Trojan War. I showed and played several examples of each (you think teaching is easy? YOU listen to Darryl Woorley's "Have You Forgotten" three times in one afternoon!) Anyway, I wanted to stress to them that when you are trying to persuade someone, it's important to use correct spelling and grammar, or else people may think you're stupid and therefore won't listen to you.

Guess what picture I used to illustrate this point?














I think my lesson was effective. :D

[laylah]

1. That is incredibly

awesome! Although my degree is in SW, I am currently in a position as a Para in an alternative middle school (baggy pants, gang signing, pregnant 14 yr olds, etc). I am looking for creative, fun ways to impact/engage the kiddos. You know how...please pm me with ideas, if you don't mind.

[madeline_con]

5. "alternative middle school"

That's funny. The middle school where I work has all that and more in "Reg Ed". :eyes:

[PeaceNikki]

2. Nice!! Here's another

[AwakeAtLast]

3. Totally awesome!!!

Hopefully that is a lesson they never forget!

:thumbsup: :applause: :thumbsup:

[TZ]

4. Hey you sound like a cool teacher...

Wish I could have had such an interesting class...My sympathies btw with the "Have you forgotten"...bleah...I liked country music until then..Thats got to be the most brain dead song ever....

[ChoralScholar]

6. On the fifth anniversary of 9/11

I did a day-long lesson on the music associated with the tragedy. I did include the 'Have You Forgotten' but it was very painful.

I also included Willie Nelson's "Peace on Earth".

Not that I'm a big country fan, but Alan Jackson's "Where were you when the world stopped turning" is a masterful piece of work. He never gets political or nutjobby, he just captured the feeling.

[TZ]

7. Neat

I do like that Alan Jackson song. It was also vastly superior to Toby Keith's "We're gonna kick your ass!" Song (the real title escapes me at the moment) But it was Toby Keith and "Have You Forgotten" that drove me away from current country music ( I still listen to some of my country CD's--particularly the Dixie Chicks)

[kath]

8. Cool! Did you include Tom Paxton's "The Bravest"?

I *love* it that Paxton updated his old song "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" right after Chimpyshit called his escalation a "surge"
Saw him perform it in concert last winter - great stuff! (I loved the line "AWOL from the Texas National Guard")

http://www.tompaxton.com/lyric_gwtold.html

[ChoralScholar]

9. I did look at that one

There was just so much music I couldn't include it all. I like that song though...