Important News from ELL
July 15, 2010
Well, ELL has began and so have all the wisecracker 7-12 year olds, with their jokes. Did that sentence make sense? I will go with it. So far, we have celebrated Michelle Obama and Pirates… a good list so far, no doubt. We’ve worked on paragraphs, quotations, spelling (of course), and COUNTLESS other things. Hooks have been involved, as well as pirate teams (my team is the Shiver Our Timbers. Can anyone beat that name? No. no, they cannot). In the meantime, some of the interns have been celebrating Bastille day, Norms Restaurant, and Korean Barbeque…. Day. Or just Korean barbeque. We didn’t really necessarily celebrate it, but we ate it, and we ate a lot of it. And it was good. Today’s activity was to make a paragraph about what you may want to bring with you if you had to be on a pirate ship for two or more months. There were more than a few good answers: slushie machines, pretzel making machines, teddy bears, four quarters to exchange for pirates to NOT attack, red bandanas, a chest of gold, and one thousand dollars to spend, just for the hell of it. One of my personal favorites was “a pillow so my elbows wont hurt”. Why not, right? Who wouldn’t need a pillow on a ship? In fact, I need a new pillow RIGHT NOW, so I empathize with that answer. Frank, one of my own “Shiver Our Timbers” members, wouldn’t bring ANYTHING because, as his letter wrote, “pirates stink and are mean and think everything’s theirs”. True point, Frank.
