Vous allez ecrire des notes. Why do I have to take notes?* She picked a gender neutral name for a character who was the object (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 8, 2019
05/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentStarted with more complex grammar and even that I got wrong! Then some cultural stuff.That I got right. Qu’est-ce que vous buvez quand vous avez (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 23, 2019 #
05/16/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentNyah’s BirthdayShe said something in French and I missed recording it! Here is the story again: Deux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 20, 2019 #
05/14/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is another story and she asks for clarifications but there is a lot of new vocabulary. She recalled ‘boue’ and she comprehended most but (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Nov. 15, 2019 #
05/13/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentEst-ce que une jeune fille est un garcon? No*La jeune fille travaille au Disneyland. Est-ce qu’elle travaille au Disneyworld?No. DisneyLAND* Elle conduit….drive?”Dort….I don’t knowFrere Jacques, (Continue Reading)
Nyah lesson Nov. 7, 2019 Thursday #
05/13/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe packageWhy is there Y there? Y stands for ,….But isn’t there a word y?I didn’t know that was a world wide epidemic (hippies)Why is (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Nov. 5, 2019 #
05/08/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAfter transcribing this I think I would say the “structures” are l’ and avoir peur and Asked for leaving the question words up. Qui est (Continue Reading)
Accountability and Reconciliation
04/15/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentBishop Desmond Tutu led his country into an era he called Truth and Reconciliation. South Africa had been as bad as the American South; worse, (Continue Reading)
Ups and Downs with TPRS and the Virus
04/14/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentJust as my granddaughter was getting back into the swing of things with French, the virus hit. She has stayed away for a week or (Continue Reading)
States with no lockdown as of April 4
04/04/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFour states, all Republican governors. Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Iowa really surprises me.
Take his whistle away
04/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhat is the point in finding out the identity of a whistle blower? To punish him, of course. But why punish him what the whistle (Continue Reading)
Why the Right Hates Cultural Relativity
03/29/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIt’s really simple: people who gravitate to the right are authoritarians. Cultural relativity undermines that. Cultural relativity states that all societies face the same basic (Continue Reading)
The X factor…. Malcolm or Latin?
02/18/2020 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsSo easy to ridicule liberals …. or Liberals. They are now taking to saying “Latinx” instead of Latin, Latino, or Latina. Seems silly, right? Just (Continue Reading)
Why I don’t feel the Bern
01/28/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThere is a lot here I agree with: (it’s from The Bulwark) 1. Trump Would Destroy Bernie If the polls are to be believed, Bernie (Continue Reading)
The way it really was…..
01/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn the wake of the Civil Rights Act passing, some people took it seriously. Here is an example of what happened (from Rick Perlstein’s Before (Continue Reading)
Well, there goes my lesson plan
01/21/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom a FL teacher listserv: > I am doing a March Madness activity with my HS students and I already > have > 10 songs (Continue Reading)
Dec. 26, 2019
12/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentReading an article in the New York Review of Books, I discovered that the colonists before the revolution in this country had a take on (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Oct. 18 #?
10/18/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOur first lesson after her trip to France. She continues to delight me with her observations and questions. We did a little planning, basically our (Continue Reading)
DECLARATION
08/17/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI no longer feel obligated to listen to or speak to anyone with their cell phone out. If they have an important message, they can (Continue Reading)
Plans for upcoming lessons
05/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the end of the month, my granddaughter will begin putting in more than the 5 day a week schedule for her French lessons. She (Continue Reading)
Fruits of consistency
04/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentSince my surgery in December and my week off in Februrary, I have surged in the consistency with which I get to the gym. I (Continue Reading)
Run for the border
11/26/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump has created another crisis that he is milking to gin up his base. By sending troops to the border in violation of the Constitution (Continue Reading)
Quotes from Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind
11/09/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentI just finished Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. He says all conservatives are reactionaries b/c they don’t arise until something changes. People who just live (Continue Reading)