We are supposedly teaching ESL, yet for some reason, the material we're teaching is above grade level for kids back at home. MaryAnne is teaching Hamlet to one of her 9th grade students and if I recall correctly, I read that in the 12th grade and English is my first language. She's also using the massive textbooks shown in the pictures called "The Language of Literature" for 7th graders and is trying to teaching poetry to kids who are still struggling to put a proper sentence together.
This week in science, I've been trying to teach the concept of renewable and non-renewable energy to my 5th grade students which is something that grade would learn back home, but here it's kind of complicated to explain fossil fuels and acid rain when they are still trying to learn how to communicate with each other in English.
On the flip side, I think I'm starting to speak in two word sentences: Need coffee. Feel tired. Want sleep.
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