Learn Tech with Ruth

Today is the last day in May, finally time for me to acknowledge the fact that it's summer vacation. Though we got out of school a week ago, I was busy doing school work every single day, for hours. Why, may you ask. Well with the switch to French and German I had to gather materials for both classes. It's not like I will be provided with textbooks, haha. But I believe I've got this now. In French we will follow the Bon Voyage series with their curriculum at least and in German class we will follow the Deutsche Welle Harry program, which offers 100 episodes, way more than anyone could possibly cover in one year. I also ordered some posters for my classroom. Cuba will have to go, sadly, as much as I enjoyed dreaming of the beautiful island. My Google Classrooms are full of all sorts of good resources to keep us all inspired and get off to a wonderful and fun start of the school year: Syllabi, pacing guides, songs, all Extra! episodes 1-13 with French resources at least, Exi...

So I am now a French and German teacher at my school in East Tennessee. I thought my old blog won't do anymore, at least not for the upcoming school year. Somehow my credentials escaped the bag as the AdvencEd people came to visit my school in March and they virtually overnight decided to offer French and German to our students, who, surprisingly jumped on that offering and filled the classes up in a snap. Honestly, I have not taught those subjects since 1990 I believe, except for a three week gig with the Upward Bound last summer where we did a German class. Well, I am determined to make a go of it and have started to compile tons of items unto my new Google Classrooms. I will be using "Bon voyage" for French and the Deutsche Welle Harry program for my German classes along with other resources of course. One of those will be the Extra! series in both French and German. Fortunately, someone on TPT created a mega bundle of activities for every episode, which was totally wo...