Today my partner, Maria, and I taught lectures on self-confidence for the ninth and eight grade classes. I am also getting to the point in my language where I can actually sometimes understand what the students are saying and don't just have to smile and nod along with Maria. One of the parts of the lesson plan involved a list of activities and the students would write a plus if they can do it well or a minus if they can't and then write why. The point of this was that it is important for people to know what they can and can't do well. Anyway, one of the activities was playing football, or soccer. A girl in the first class wrote that she can't play football well because it is a boy's sport.
I immediately thought of two women: my sister and Mia Hamm. Since my sister, although wonderful in her own ways, is not world famous I decided to go with Mia Hamm and gave impromptu homework. I told them, the girls especially, that over the next week I wanted them to access the internet. I didn't care if it was at home, a friend's house, the school, the library, an internet cafe, just find the internet and search youtube for "Mia Hamm". Next week they're supposed to tell me who she is and what they think about her. This ended up being homework for all of the subsequent classes. Now I'm just debating whether or not to take my computer with me next week since I know not all of the kids will look her up and I'd like to do a short discussion about her. I'll ask Maria what she thinks.
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