When I tested over a story I would make fresh copies for the test b/c students often wrote the English above the FL words. Besides (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
My new Web site
‘Splain this
01/13/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentQuoting a NYT article: And when a newly inaugurated Mr. Trump sought a loyalty pledge from Mr. Comey and later asked that he end an (Continue Reading)
Down to basics, KIng
01/11/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOnce in a while, a public figure makes a bold statement that tears away the veil of gentility and exposes what one might call “deep (Continue Reading)
The trouble with Trump voters……
01/10/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThere are lots of reasons to find Trump voters troubling, not the least of which is that they still are Trump voters. Think about this (Continue Reading)
The beat of the washing machine
01/09/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOne of the hallmarks – no, the sine qua nons – of the music of West Africa and the African Diaspora is what is popularly (Continue Reading)
Which aspect? It all depends…..
01/04/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentSo often here and elsewhere I’ve recounted the hilarious presentation at ACTFL, not meant to be hilarious, on the preterit and imperfect in Spanish. The (Continue Reading)
taking root
01/01/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat phrase occurred to me as I was thinking of how my granddaughter is dealing with her vocabulary in French. Today she stumbled on ‘parce (Continue Reading)
Progress in Harry Potter
12/24/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThe biggie here is that the Norwegian version is on its way from Norway. A clerk there and I struggled with how to pay for (Continue Reading)
Linguistics and current politics
12/24/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy new orders just came. Amazon’s delivery system is amazing. I got Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right and Steve (Continue Reading)
president or President?
12/24/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMax Boot had trouble spelling President with a capital P when Trump hit the scene. It made me think why I defer to the President….. (Continue Reading)
Dramatic evidence of who made the changes in America
12/23/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn Michelle Obama’s new book she has two class pictures, one of her kindergarten class and one of her first grade class in a school (Continue Reading)
Too much P.C.?
12/23/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentA PBS/NPR/Marist poll recently found that a good many Americans, while not opposed to civility, believe that “political correctness” is being overdone and pundits believe (Continue Reading)
easy done
12/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentHernia surgery yesterday. Out patient. Easy as pie. Almost no pain. Plenty of uninterrupted reading time as I recover. (See What I’m Reading Now category) (Continue Reading)
Where our values clash with reality
12/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn article I just read explains that Seattle schools experimented with a later start time for jr and hi school. Results were positive for improved (Continue Reading)
Two issues in learning French
12/13/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentOne often hears comments like this: I took four years of French and made good grades but when I got to France I couldn’t understand (Continue Reading)
Great idea of mine…. but is it tprs?
12/12/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I texted Nyah about when we were going to meet. She answered with ‘oui’. So I texted back Ah! Vous parlez francais and she (Continue Reading)
The centrality of music to the Black religious experience
12/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentI’m sure I’ve written up this incident here before but cannot find it. It points to the centrality of music and esp of rhythmic music (Continue Reading)
tprs stories as a Rorschach test
12/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs our students create their stories in the story-asking feature of tprs, we might see their productions as a kind of Rorschach test. What do (Continue Reading)
Hernia
12/06/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentA pause in my exercise program. I got a diagnosis yesterday of hernia and I’ll be called today to schedule surgery. I have no idea (Continue Reading)
A bit more reflection on tprs
12/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I tried to survey blogs on tprs again. One in particular I wanted to join in on and it is via Word Press, the (Continue Reading)
Family only words
12/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn my family as a kid we used the word breakfast food for cereal even when we ate it at night before bed (a custom (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #55 Dec. 3, 2018
12/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe continued today with the mermaids or sirens who can transform themselves and eat men. (???) I will continue with this post, transcribing parts of (Continue Reading)
My psoas
12/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentSay what? Well, it’s a bit like a sore ass as pronounced down south but it is a core muscle I did not know about (Continue Reading)