

We worked together to write this script (it was an embellishment of a story idea that one of my students wrote on a day that they were complaining that we never do interesting stories anymore) that focuses almost entirely on -AR preterit verbs, and Julia (my intern) suggested using this short film for a MovieTalk that pairs with it just beautifully.We wrote up a reading based on the action in the film that also includes almost exclusively -AR preterit verb forms. Two brains are better than one, that’s for sure! We just finished a killer CI-friendly introduction to -AR preterite verbs (since I am backtracking and trying to do a systematic introduction of the preterite tense now that we’ve already read a novel in the past tense…oops). It has been SO GREAT to have someone to talk through ideas with.

So remember how I mentioned that I have an intern this quarter? Well, she’s awesome.
