Jane Austen
Bruce and I judged a contest today at school called The Book I Have REad. Today was 9th and 10th graders. The 10th graders read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. They gave their speeches in English and had to answer one question that members of the jury (Bruce, me and two other English speakers) came up with. All of this in English. It was amazing!!!!! There were 8 contestants today. I learned things from the P &P speeches after having read and taught the book several times. Wow.
Jane Iverson (and Max) have been going to school all week. They now have uniforms and seem to be making a few friends. (or they are just such an oddity that the Ecuadorian kids following them around out of curiosity) 3 of their six classes are in English. School starts at 7:25 and is about 45 minutes from our apt. so we have been getting up 5:50am to catch a cab for an 8 minute ride to where the school bus picks up the whole family and takes us all to school. The kids have actually been working, Bruce and I start teaching English classes next week so we have been "preparing¨" all week in between being on the jury for the contests. The quotation marks mean we have mostly been hanging out in the teacher´s lounge using the free internet. More about school later and I promise to figure out the pics this weekend.
besos y abrazos (soon I will be the least bilingual in my family)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Mais Madame. Vous parlez une langue seconde, oui?
ReplyDeleteJane rules everywhere! Three students in the Survey of British Literature named "Persuasion" their all-time favorite novel.
Bon fin de semain,
El Viejo
I am thrilled with the Jane Austen news and I am curious what you learned that was new about Jane. I'm we sure we can discuss at length later. Jane does rule everywhere!
ReplyDelete