TEN ECLECTIC LESSON PLANS

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ETAI Annual National Con-
ference

Eels of Change
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TEN ECLECTIC LESSON PLANS
Ten Wacky Associative Programs you can use to
Brighten Up the year

• Adapted for ETAI by B-
• arry Silverberg, 2007

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• Would
• You
• Believe
• Five lesson
• plans?
• I was held up at customs

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• 1 Use WORD OF DAY sites as springboards to
  motivation, games and vocab enrichment even to
  teach phonemic awareness.
• 2 Learn about deadly weather/ Tornados and
  Hurricanes clips, the movie and a human
  Hurricane. Song Hurricane
• 3 From Mass Killings / an Unlikely Hero/ SongThe
  Sniper
• 4 A Fusion Bomb in the Basement/ Nuclear Fusion/
  The Elements
• 5 Our endangered planet Carbon Neutral/ Severn
  Suzuki/ Pollution song by Tom Leherer

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• 6 Flight Amelia Earhart and song
• New flying machines/ old flying machines
• 7 ON LINE BOGGLE
• 8 Worlds Shortest Stories
• 9 Palindromes and Dylan
• 10 Bagrut Bloopers 2007

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• Link to Word of Day archive
• http//www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.p
  l?Jun.07.2007

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LEARNERS WORD SITE WITH ARCHIVE

• This is supposedly a learners word site, but, as
  you see its still pretty esoteric.
• http//www.learnersdictionary.com/wod.htm
• How about this one? What does nimby mean?
• http//www.learnersdictionary.com/wod_archive.htm
• And heres one that teaches phrasal verbs and
  idioms a day
• http//www.eslmonkeys.com/student/wordoftheday.php
  

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Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club

• http//www.last.fm/music/TomTomClub/_/WordyRapp
  inghood
• I tunes rappinghood
• What are words worth?
• Words in papers, words in books
• Words on TV, words for crooks
• Words of comfort, words of peace
• Words to make the fighting cease
• Words to tell you what to do
• Words are working hard for you
• Eat your words but don't go hungry Words have
  always nearly hung me What are words worth? What
  are words worth? - words

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2 Hurricanes and Tornadoes

• Jokes about hurricanes and tornados
• http//www.juliantrubin.com/tornadojokes.html
• Build a tornado in your bathroom
• http//www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/000
  00122
• An account of a child who was hit by a tornado.
• http//www.fema.gov/kids/tornstry.htm
• Lots of information that can be used as trivia
  game or match Q with A
• http//www.outerbeaches.com/Hurricane-FAQ
• http//www.nssl.noaa.gov/faq/faq_tor.php
• Tornados FAQ
• http//corky.net/scripts/twister.html The
  movie script for Twister

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• Bob Dylan
• http//www.bobdylan.com/songs/hurricane.html
  lyrics
• Video clip of Dylan song with subtitles
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vohyQblkQ8fc
• A clip of Hurricane Carter many years later.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnc1j2oH6Wpkmodere
  latedsearch

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3 Shooting Sprees

• News items about students killing students
• Song The Sniper by Harry Chapin
• Prof Livrescus heroism
• http//www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.as
  px/2096

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4 NUCLEAR FUSION / NUCLEAR FUTURE

• (teacher elicits discussion about the chemical
  elements
• And here they are
• http//www.tabulka.cz/english/images/periodic_tabl
  e.gif
• Here is a wonderful song to help you learn them
  
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSxRHfufVjJUmodere
  latedsearch
• Heres another pictorial version of the same
  song.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSmwlzwGMMwcNR1
• Now, now many elements can you sing?

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• Animation showing nuclear fusion
• http//science.howstuffworks.com/fusion-reactor1.h
  tm
• Teenager Builds Nuclear Fission Device in his
  Basement
• http//discovermagazine.com/2007/mar/radioactive-b
  oy-scout
• Here is a gruesome comic song by Tom
• Lehrer about a possible Nuclear War
• 'All Go together' see next slide
• And here is the same song, with a backdrop taken
  from Star Wars http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfU2
  mwrxRQyA

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All Go Together

• When you attend a funeralIt is sad to think that
  sooner orLater those you love will do the same
  for youAnd you may have thought it tragicNot to
  mention other adjec-Tives, to think of all the
  weeping they will do(But don't you worry.)No
  more ashes, no more sackclothAnd an arm band
  made of black clothWill some day nevermore adorn
  a sleeveFor if the bomb that drops on youGets
  your friends and neighbors tooThere'll be nobody
  left behind to grieveAnd we will all go
  together when we goWhat a comforting fact that
  is to knowUniversal bereavementAn inspiring
  achievementYes, we all will go together when we
  go

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5 Our Endangered Planet Americas Vanishing
Bees News Item plus Lesson Plan Americas
Vanishing Bees http//www.breakingnewsenglish.co
m/0702/070228-bees.doc The Pollution Song/ Tom
Leherer http//www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-pollut
ion-lyrics.html A young girl addresses the UN
on the issue of pollution http//www.youtube.com/w
atch?v5g8cmWZOX8Q
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6 FLIGHT AMELIA EARHART

• This slide disappeared and was never found
• That, of course was a joke
• Here are clips of early flying machines
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?viMhdksPFhCM
• Amelia Earhart speaks on an old news clipl
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEpaJq2JZ-zU
• Lyrics to song Amelia plus links to bio
• http//www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jonimitchell/amelia_
  20075416.html
• Joni Mitchell singing the song on You Tube
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8bFgxKov8Ts

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• 7 On -line BOGGLE
• no explanation necessary
• http//www.fun-with-words.com/boggle.html?hx327C
  onTop

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8 THE
SHORT STORY Hemingway "For sale baby shoes,
never worn." SIX WORD SCIENCE FICTION
STORIES Computer, did we bring batteries?
Computer - Eileen Gunn Automobile warranty
expires. So does engine. - Stan Lee Machine.
Unexpectedly, Id invented a time - Alan
Moore http//www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/six
words.html Story Bytes Stories by the power of
2 http//www.storybytes.com/view-length/index.htm
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The Half-Truth M. Stanley Bubien 64 words "The
world is full of complete idiots, and I sure as
hell ain't one of 'em"     
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Prince Charming George W. Clingerman Alas, a
lass was walking down the road.Alas, a lass did
spy an ugly toad.Alas, a lass did kiss his slimy
lips.A lass, alas did die of poisoned spit.
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Then Your Face Will Surely Show It M. Stanley
Bubien -)     
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9 PALINDROMEShttp//www.palindromelist.c
om/

• Madam, Im Adam

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A man, a plan, a canal Panama!
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• A Dan, a clan, a canal - Canada!
• A man, a plan, a cat, a canal Panama!
• The following fantastic version was produced by
  Guy Steele in 1983. It has 49 words.
• A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a
  coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a
  gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag
  again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a
  Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal
  Panama!
• http//www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html

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more

• Racecar Radar
• Rats live on no evil star
• Red rum, sir, is murder.
• Rise to vote, sir.
• Lisa Bonet ate no basil
• Do geese see God?

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• Am I drawn inward, Ima? Am I loco, Lima ?
  
• "Am I mad, eh?" Giselle sighed, "Am I, Ma?"
• Amen, I call a cinema. Anne, I snip a map
  in Sienna
• A nut for a jar of tuna.A Santa at NASA.

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A dog! A panic in a pagoda! Too hot to
hoot No lemons, no melon Too bad I hid a
bootWarsaw was rawWas it a car or a cat I saw?
A tip save Eva's pita. .
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Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick
Blueshttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vsrgi2DkDbPU

• Johnnys in the basement Mixing up the
  medicineIm on the pavement, Thinking about the
  governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out,
  laid offSays hes got a bad coughWants to get it
  paid off Look out kid
• Its somethin you didGod knows whenBut youre
  doin it again You better duck down the alley
  wayLookin for a new friend The man in the
  coon-skin cap In the big penWants eleven
  dollar bills. You only got ten

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• And, finally, the point of all this Here is
  Weird Al Jancovic singing a parody of Dylan all
  the lyrics are palindromes!
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNej4xJe4Tdgmodere
  latedsearch
• The end! Send your suggestions and responses!!
  / Barry Silverberg