Thanks again for checking out my little corner of the internet. My first week back to the school has been pretty eventful, mostly because it's the second-most exciting time of the year. (The most exciting time of the year is December 14, my birthday, which none of you readers sent me gifts for. No, I'm not still bitter). ANYWHOOO, if you live in a sports-void, you don't know that this week is March Madness: the college basketball tournament where anything can (and often does!) happen.
Thusly, I have been doing March Madness with my students: we study a short text explaining what March Madness is and the nature of the tournament, then we look at some statistics, then I set them free to fill out their own brackets. This process involves explaining, re-explaining and then lots more re-explaining, but they get the general gist of it by the end. I make sure to tell them that it is their choice if they want to use statistics or just "follow their whims" (new vocab!)... resulting in many GREAT picks.
Some highlights:
- Confusion over Colorado and Colorado State, Michigan and Michigan State, etc...
- A student taking Detroit (a 15 seed) to the final four, because "Detroit is tough"
- Lots of students taking Kentucky all the way - KENTUCKY FRIEND CHICKEN!!
- Xavier and Notre Dame, two schools with French names, going far in many brackets
- One girl who took Montana to the championship game because she "looooves Hannah Montana"
- Students named Xavier getting really excited, other students dissing them ("Xavier, I'm picking you to LOSE!")
- Excitement about Harvard, yet upon further reflection the decision that Harvard is too bookish to be good at basketball
Basically, it's been hella fun. I told them that the winners in each class got cupcakes/brownies, so we'll see how it plays out...
Pictures/stories from vacation coming soon!
Bisous,
xoxo
Samantha
P.S. I picked Kentucky.
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