Project Time

My STG class continues to torture me, so I opted to return the favor and assigned each of them a three-minute presentation for Monday. We've just finished reviewing all the life-stage verbs like grow up, get married, get divorced, retire, etc. So their three-minute speech is to present the entire life of the dead celebrity of their choice (or, if they really insist on doing someone who's still alive, they have to make up a cause of death and date).

I polled the class and had the kids commit early so I wouldn't have to listen to the same presentation about Zinedine Zidane 17 times, and they kept throwing out names that I'd never heard of and had no idea how to write down... then they'd spell them for me and I'd say, "Oh God, is that what you said??"

So, without further ado, I give you the list:

Sarah: Martin Luther King

Emmanuelle: I think she said Jacques Mesrine but I'm not positive

Anais: Marilyn Monroe

Walla: Malcolm X

Gaetan: Michael Jackson

Yamina: Tupac

Ghenima: Matoub

Melanie: Johnny Hallyday

Ingrid: Rosa Parks

Martine: Hitler (?!?!)

Yasser: Al Capone

Charly: "the man who plays Superman and is dead"

Andy: Notorious BIG

Mousmi: Aaliyah

Maria: Edith Piaf

Adrien: Bob Marley

I can hardly wait.