Dialog Day and a New Idea

Thursday is my dialog day. Its a chance to do some role playing and to work on real life scripts. Some students of mine like to be "funny" on this day and say some pretty cazy things in the situation. Thats okay because they often come back with the serious dialog after.

This was particularly interesting this week. My class was intercepted by a favor that I did for the sectretary of the school. One of the substitute teachers for the afternoon resource math class decided not to come. The secretary needed a place with a credentialed teacher to house the three students that were left. They had a para helper but of course that is not good enough. She asked me if I could take them into my class. Sure I said. They came with their math work. It was hard for them to concentrate on their math class as we were going into the scripts.... sooo I decided to included them in. They joined in with the scripts and had a great time.

One female student specifically wanted one of the scripts that had the mother talking in the problem.

That got me thinking...

Maybe I need a whole batch of "Mother" scripts for the students to try out.

On my walk today I got to thinking about it and came up with three categories:

Momma says.. in the present tense.. Momma will actually be a character in these scripts.

Momma said, Moma will be a source of guidence in these scripts

And then Momma said, will repesent a reporting of what momma actually said in a remembered situation.

Draw the card do the dialog.. it should be fun to work on this project>

Anyone out there in bogland have a scenario that would fit any of these situations>

Post a response and I will add it to the frey.

Thanks
Pat