On s'amuse bien...

This past week was a learning experience for me, as I survived my first Spirit Week and Winter Carnival as an NHS faculty member. With vacation just around the corner, it makes perfect sense to me that the high school should choose this week as Spirit Week, and I got into the craziness probably more than anyone else. I cheerfully dressed up for each themed day, pared down lesson plans slightly to allow for the students' "less focused" frame of mind, and even bore the snow day and subsequent insanity with Herculean strength of mind and patience.

In a stroke of genius, I decided to borrow Mrs. Boudreau's flip camera again on the Thursday before the Carnival to record French 3 playing the "Verb Game." Since I invented it a few years ago, it has swept the university and high school language classrooms like wildfire, the perfect verb companion to the incredibly popular vocabulary game "Flyswatter." My rowdy junior class was the perfect candidate for this impromptu recording session for a bevy of reasons: they had class at the end of the day and therefore had no focus whatsoever, they had lots of excess energy that needed to be burned off, as a class they embrace this type of activity more than any other level, and, well, it was "Character Day," and their costumes made for yet another level of hilarity on top of the game itself.

I published the rules to the "Verb Game" on this site back in September, but the concept is simple: teams sit in rows and conjugate verbs individually by subject, passing off their Expo marker down the line as they go. The last person corrects previous mistakes, and 1 point is awarded for speed, 2 for accuracy. I believe I will let the videos do the rest of the explaining for me...