[Xmca-l] Re: Teaching in social context

[Dr. Paul C. Mocombe]

Mike,

No tv in the classrooms.  Broward County has extended the teaching day...the students are in class from 7:30-3:30...then they have remedial reading from 3:30-5:15.  Technically, the school has been an F school for three years.  It is due to be shut down this year.


Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
President
The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc.
www.mocombeian.com 
www.readingroomcurriculum.com 
www.paulcmocombe.info 

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> </div><div>Date:03/17/2015  1:13 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu> </div><div>Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Teaching in social context </div><div>
</div>Greg--- Not to mention people being caught in the rude.

Seems like the grumpy quality of the narrative is being picked up on, but
hard to tell.

*The Secret Garden* is antiquarian by American standards, having appeared
in the latter part of the 1900's. I note there is a modern TV series about
it.

Paul - Would it be permissible to incorporate some of the TV, so the kids
get a richer interpretive object and mix it with reading?

mike

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Greg Mcverry <jgregmcverry@gmail.com>
wrote:

> A hoe, a gardener named weatherstaff  and a mistress, Oh how meaning could
> be misconstrued. And I am not even considering the mansion which few of
> your wife's students have any real cultural reference point.
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:54 PM Dr. Paul C. Mocombe <
> pmocombe@mocombeian.com> wrote:
>
> > My wife teaches 3rd grade at an inner-city school.  Today the students
> > were tested on a district-wide mock test and they came across the
> attached
> > passage.  Half the class came up to her, and said that they can not read
> > the passage bcuz they are cursing in it...
> >
> >
> > Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
> > President
> > The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc.
> > www.mocombeian.com
> > www.readingroomcurriculum.com
> > www.paulcmocombe.info
>



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