The PIE educators met at Ernest E Just on Friday, March 20th for their third class.
Cristina and Myrna were the first to arrive. Realista was with us again to take care of all the paperwork and “housekeeping” issues.
The first lesson was on African American Vernacular English. The notes from the lecture are posted below.
After that the teachers worked on American English vowel sounds and spellings. They used their color vowel charts to sort words according to their vowel sounds. This was tough because some English vowel sounds have multiple spellings. Amy, Merlyn and the other members of their group were sent out as “experts” to help some of their colleagues. Vangie and Jake agreed on almost everything.
The teachers did some short presentations using reduced speech such as hasta, hafta, wanna and gonna. Everyone laughed at the dialogs, especially Helen’s.
The teachers also learned 5 new idioms and played the Millionaire Game.
At the end of class Realista introduced the Mentoring Assignment that the teachers need to work on between March 20 and April 17th.
Students can send Susan an spoken audio file for evaluation at: susan.communicate@gmail.com
The next two classes will meet on Friday, April 17th and Friday, April 24th.
