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[BrianInSuwon]

I'll be teaching a two week summer camp . The classes are 1 1/2 hours per day. Anyone else doing a summer English camp for their middle school? Any lesson ideas to share?

[I'm no Picasso]

Doing one week at 3 1/2 hours a day. Three and a half hours is ridiculous. Luckily, I have just about the best possible co-teacher, who made sure to state more than once that the time is "flexible", followed by a statement that no one will be watching me. I think both I and the kids will max out at three hours, especially in the heat.

Uh. I'm in kind of a pickle because I've got all three grades in one class, and the levels vary wildly. The vast majority are first graders though, so I'm going to have to play low. All I know to do is to try for things that are easy to understand in concept, yet that the older boys may not have learned yet, and try to keep them as active as possible.

So far, we've got one day about introductions, how to talk about yourself, etc. including peer interviews, followed by the Truth & Lies game, where they write three sentences on the board -- two true, one untrue, and the students have to guess which. Have to find some reading to do on that day, but the "reading" portion of this nonsense has really got me stumped, due to level.

Another day will be geography themed, working on "What do you know about ______?"/"I know that _______." We will do weather vocab, various famous sights around the world, flags (to practice country name pronunciation). Again, peer interviews. Profiles of a few different countries.

One more day will be food vocab, along with a short story about making pancakes, followed by actually making pancakes.

One day will be watching a movie (I haven't chosen yet) and working on the idea of "characters" -- doing character profiles, family trees, plot outlines, etc.

And this one I'm really unsure about -- depends on what materials I can find/make to back it up for the first graders. But I would like to have the at least try to write their own short story one day, using the character/plot concepts from the movie day. I'm not sure how plausible that is. My guys usually freeze up as soon as I mention writing anything, let alone something creative. But hopefully we can make it work. Going to have to do a lot of scaffolding for this one to work, though.

All laced with speaking activities, worksheets, presentations to the class, short videos, games, etc. etc. etc. to keep things moving. God help me, I hope it all goes over well.