Today's class didn't start until 3:30 due to the lock-down, and even then, only seven students came...without books. We tried to make do under the circumstances: I dug into my binder and pulled out a Spanish proverb worksheet, basically a list of ten Spanish sayings and ten English (very rough) equivalents. The inspiration for the exercise was to show them that Spanish is more than just a translation of English, that we say substantively different things in different languages. Seemed to work, and lots of students thought the Spanish proverbs were pretty crazy. Just to drive the point home, we reviewed another worksheet dealing with some unusual Spanish animal noises (el perro: gua gua; el gallo: kiri-kiri-kiri) and some accompanying verbs (aullar, etc.). With the remaining time, we all shared two books and did a reading comprehension exercise, pgs. 107-109.
Rough beginning aside, class went Ok. The guys still seem confused about WK Bk stuff, and someone was circulating the idea that only the unit exercises were graded, not the normal chapter stuff. I told them to turn everything in, b/c everything will be graded, but we should probably repeat and reemphasize the importance of doing all Wk BK exercises.
Chapter 5 is very short compared to the last chapter, so I only feel sorta bad that I didn't get started on it. Good luck Tom.