ideas for last class for senior high 3 students

tokyo_girl · Post by **tokyo_girl** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:45 am

I have a the final lesson for senior high 3 students coming up.
I'd like to have a lesson that recognised it's the end of their high school life.
I had been thinking of giving them topics to choose from about their time at school - something that could be a bit warm and fuzzy. I'm not sure that their English is really up to it though and even though there are only 12 or so students, it could end up being excruciating...

I'm teaching in Japan.

Any ideas for things that have worked?

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:20 pm

We did this in Mongolia and it was so much fun. The teachers took on the mannerisms of a student and answered funny questions about the student's future. The students had to guess who we were imitating. The other students commented on things that student did to help them learn. We gave them serious and funny diplomas made up on the computer. The parents attended as well and gave a "how proud we are of you" speech and also told about funny incidences in their child's school life. We had a wall of photos of the past years and the activities we had done for everyone to look at before and after the ceremony. The students created a memory of their year with pictures and samples of work. The rest of the school attended a final graduation ceremony for these students and there were special ribbons to distinguish them, more diplomas and medals for the best students. They all dressed in their finest and there was good food. The school even rented a bus and took us around the town while we hooted and howled out of the windows, sang all the songs we knew and we had a picnic on the highest hill. The students then went off and had their party at a local pub with dancing (no drinking), singing and ended the morning-after by visiting all the teachers to wake them up early and give them small homemade momentoes.

In Greenland they extended this morning celebrations by dressing up in terrible rags or scary costumes and making as much noise as possible to wake the whole town as they gathered up the teachers, house to house. We all went to breakfast and then had a games day where the teachers played games against the students including an earth ball game of soceer, various blindfold games and a dancing contest all designed for fun. The whole school laughed along with us. The day before the students took all their papers and shredded them and threw them all over the teachers and the school. Since there was 24 hours of sunlight by this time of year, they stayed up all night and all day.
I guess you could adapt some of those to a small group.