I think language is powerful, and two-way interactive language is the most powerful. A wise language question and answer can convince students.
The things promised to students must be done. If you find it difficult, don't promise easily. The promised thing, even if you need to get up at five o'clock in the morning to buy materials, you must do it.
In the plot, first karate is used to attract students (but we all know that this cannot be long), and then sentences close to the students’ ideas are used to attract their attention (a clever way) to explain grammar, and then they try to directly reward answers with chocolate bars. The right classmates, then gradually transitioned to Bob Dylan's poems (poems with drug lords' codes), and finally a Dylan Dylan little game. However, when I thought it could end with happy ending, a lot of frustrating problems appeared again, which is very real.
The ending is teary, with some dark humor.
"Then we draw lots to decide."
"No, I can decide now that I will not participate."
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"Now you are all A, but to maintain this A requires your efforts."
"What the hell is this, do you want us to die?"
"No, but I really hope to keep your A."
44:13 Home Interview Fragment
"He is very smart, funny, and talkative. In fact, he is one of my favorite students." "
48:08 "If you don't want to stay, you can choose to leave the classroom."
"We have no choice. We can't graduate if we leave."
"That's a choice, isn't it? Either you don't graduate or you have to put up with me. Maybe you don't like it, but this is the choice."
"You don't understand us, you didn't take the school bus to school with us."
"You have to choose to take the school bus."
"You go to live there for a week, and then you tell me if I have a choice."
"Many people on your side choose not to ride the school bus. What do they choose? They choose drug trafficking, they choose to kill people everywhere, they choose to do a lot of other things, but they do not choose to ride the school bus. Speak out—I will not carry myself down to die, when I go to my grave, my head will be high. That is choice.
In this classroom, there are no victims. "
57:45
"The winner is—Congratulations" (hugging one by one) "But there is no loser in our class. Everyone can pick gifts from the box."
"Why are there rewards for wrong answers?"
"Because sometimes it takes many mistakes to be correct."
59:00 (Reward for dinner, I printed the menu for them to read aloud)
"Wow, you look so handsome today."
1:02:11
"I hope you don't get angry about what I'm going to say next. I'm going to miss school for a few days."
"(Silence) Then you have to tell me why."
Sometimes may I know is used, sometimes you must be used.
1:07:28
Learning itself is a discourse of reward. You can also run, but you will run faster after learning the method. The brain is like a muscle, it needs constant exercise to become strong. Each new fact gives you another choice, and each new viewpoint helps you build another muscle. These muscles will become your weapons. This world is not safe, and my task is to continue to arm you.
Try it! Are you sitting here anyway? Even if you don’t become stronger or smarter at the end of this semester, there is no loss, right?
But if you do it, you will be hard to beat.
Luan sat there.
"Be quiet, the teacher has something to say."
Let the students know that when you stand in a certain position, you have something to say to them. Just practice a few times with the game.
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