Myownsuggestion’s Weblog

It amazes me the random things you can find on the internet.  I was working on my lesson for practicum and found this site www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html. This man keeps a list of homonyms. Some I don’t agree with (ex. Berry, Barry, Bury). I definately pronounce those differently .

I can’t decide what to do for my lesson. I have 3 concepts, symbols, timelines, or words with multiple meanings. I really want to do words with multiple meanings because I can think of lots of fun activities, but I need to include some Children’s literature and I can’t figure out what I would incorporate. I’m leaning toward timelines right now. I could do a whole class part or have them work in groups to make big timelines by rearranging things on the floor. And then they could make smaller timelines that go with a story. I figure a biography might be good for that. I also thought it might be interesting to have them pick a favorite memory or event and make a class timeline of that. We’ll see.