A Few Crooked Words
Tag Archives: Frog Hollow School
Look and You’ll See: Observation as Writing and Social Practice
We began this year by doing observational writing. I took my classes to different places — a community garden, a meadow — and had them write down things they noticed. I asked them to only write down things they had … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Uncategorized
Tagged Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Seattle, social justice, teaching English, Travel, Writing
The Disaster of the Cranky Crankie
So Lady Gaga had just gotten back from space and was wearing a hotdog costume. Hitler came up to her and said, “You look like a Wiener Schnitzel.” She says to him, “This is a bad romance, Adolf.” But I … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Uncategorized
Tagged children, Crankies, Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Seattle, Summer, Teaching writing
Chinook Jargon
Continuing in our explorations of translation, my class has been playing around with Chinook Jargon. Chinook Jargon is the trade language of the Northwest, a pidgin of English, French, and several Salish languages. It was widely spoken through the 1800’s, … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged American culture, chinook jargon, Creativity, Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Language, Seattle, Teaching writing
Translation with Nine Year Olds
I’ve been doing poems using words in Spanish or French with my students for several years, and have been trying to figure out a way to do our own translations. They love working with words in other languages, but it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Exercises, Language, Literature, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Seattle, teaching poetry, Teaching writing, Translation
