Archive for April 28th, 2009

A Warm-up Activity for Unit 12 “Have a Good Four Years”

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Yesterday and today I started Unit 12 in Class 313 and Class 314 respectively.   It is a speech given to freshmen at Harvard by its president Derek C. Bok in 1971.  Before having the students look at the text, I asked the students to guess from the title “Have a Good Four Years” what this lesson was about.  They immediately told me it was about going to college. (more…)