środa, 18 lutego 2015

Discussion Topics

                Working with two girls on creative reading and writing as ESL has been a lot of fun so far. Sometimes, though, it is good to just sit down and have interesting conversations without having to worry about writing everything down or turning everything into a tangible piece of work.
               Yesterday the girls father was showing a Nirvana video which sparked the youngest girl, Yagna's, interest in the topic of Kurt Cobain's death. I was happily surprised that A) she knew who Nirvana was, and B) that she knew all about his death. It lead to some interesting questions and conversations. 

Here is a jot note version of what was brought up and discussed if anyone is looking for some discussion topics or ideas :)

Kurt Cobain
- "Why would Kurt Cobain kill himself?" - disappointed in life, too many cruel people in the world, too much inequality in the world. 
           - Why would anyone kill themself? - 
            -Why do people who are bad seem to have so much power? GMO's,
 technology killing the environment. 
-"Why is the environment important?" and why do so many people with power ignore or do not understand the importance of our environment? (GREED!)

Yagna says "life would be better without cars and other technological stuff "


Birthdays
- Best birthday - what made it the best? Was is the year? The people? The events? The food? The gifts?
What made Yagna's 7th birthday the best was the good company, the location being inside a giant indoor play park, delicious cake shaped like a violin, and a sleep over.

- Why do some people not like birthdays? - age, money issues, some people don't like being the centre of attention

- Age is just a number. "Sometimes I am two, sometimes I am 9" - Yagna 

Verbal Stories
At the last part of our time together yesterday, Yagna and I turned off the lights and sat in the playroom in the dark and told scary stories. It was a lot of fun!

Here is one of the videos that was shown (two men playing Nirvana on the cello!)
It is very cool, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gvEpa8SyVE

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