Educational Projects, Grade 10, Grade 9

May – June 20, May 27- June 7,

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Creating a mural at school which will include the best of the English proverbs. This project anticipates much more than one week of work, that is why I put its deadline till the end of the fourth academic year.

Ստեղծագործություն ամբողջական պատի վրա Մայր դպրոցում, ինչը կընդգրկէ Անգլերեն ասացուածքներ․Համատեղ նախագիծ Հյուսիսային դպրոցի հետ․

A joint art-English projects: Create an “English Wall” at school. We want to have an English wall at school. That is a wall which will include the best of the English proverbs. Besides we want to The projects will also be fluid. By fluid I mean I don’t know if we will be able to realise at least some of the made suggestions.

Objective: Create an English lasting environement at school. The school in this way will show it values multilinguilism and will encourage students to learn in a very subtle, yet artisitic way. The wall will include the best of the English proverbs, the wise sayings, which are not understood literally. The reader, of the proverbs, any student or a passerby, after reading the proverb, will want to know its meaning, if impressed by the work and style. This will encourage them to ask and learn, and voila! What a better way to learn!

Procedure: Grade 10 students will have to pick the proverbs in class, learn their meanings and paint the proverbs on the wall, with the help of artists/drawing teachers at school, or in collaboration with the North school staff. The colors and design should be decided jointly: North School/High School.

Results: A lasting art piece at school, which will foster the excitement of future learners, and stay on the studets’ minds all their lives, as it will be a project that will involve hand-work, artism and the idea of leaving lasting prints.

Grade 9

Hidden Camera Games: Play the tourist in the stores of Bangladesh

Թաքնուած Կամերա Խաղը, ուսանողը ձևացնելու է որ տուրիստ է և չի կարող արտահայտուել բացի Անգլերենից․

Objective: The students will learn and role-playing shopping of items in class, know how to explain them and go role-play a tourist in Bangladesh who wants to shop items, but knows no language other than ENglish. They will go in pairs and try to communicate with the store teller, making the item they want to buy difficult to be understood. Then the students will give feedback saying it was a hidden camera game. The students will have to keep the attempts of explaining what items they would want to shop exclusively in English. We would choose easy, average or difficult to describe items, and see how language barriers can be broken, or not broken.Plus it will be embedded with lots of fun, a driving force for the students.

Procedure: Lots of discussion in class on choosing the items to be described at stores, practicing describing them in English and mastering what is needed to say.

Results: The students will have lots of fun learning, practicing, applying their learnt exercises in a very much fun and novel way. They will learn to appreciate the value of language from being in the opposite person’s point of view.

Published by dzovigkassabian

I am a psychologist and a teacher of EFL from Lebanon. Born in 1974, in a big family of five kids, bombs and shelters were the highlights of our childhood years. In 1991, I graduated from Yegishe Manougian College,the humanity section, then took off to work in my father's printing press. In 1997 I earned my BA in psychology from Haigazian University, being on the Dean's List periodically. In 2005 I earned my MA in General Psychology, Clinical Psychology as the main field of study, with a minor in School Counseling. My Thesis Findings addressed a psycho-social issue, research on the assimilation patters of the Armenians in Lebanon and the weight of the Armenian State in that process. Thus, in 2006, I was invited to UCLA, to participate in the fifth Annual Colloquium in Armenian Studies, to present the findings of my MA thesis among the PhD candidates from all over the world. My research based article is titled "The Assimilation of Armenians in Lebanon as a Function of Involvement with the Armenian State." Along formal education, I aslo had formal musical education at Parsegh Ganatchian Musical school, played the Piano with a professional pianist invited from Armenia. My teaching experiences involve teaching English as foreign language in prominent Lebanese high schools, where I taught English in Middle and High schools as well as worked as a Psychology instructor and school counselor. I consider my job gratifying and motivating as it is a very humanitarian and a giving job. I am a mother of two beautiful girls. My elder, Natalie, studies English and Communications at AUA, whereas my little sweetheart, Mariam Luce' is a 4 year old at KG! I am blessed to have a big loving family, great parents, siblings and most importantly a husband who is one in a million! I can write many chapters about me, but as they say, time is money, and I have to go now to grab something to eat!

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