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Benjamin Tinsley
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Musique Talk (?)
Here's a super short clip of a cool listening activity in our music unit. We've studied different styles of music that are from different...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Comprehensible Confessions
I believe that I’m a good teacher and that I’ve always been pretty good at this. Teaching has always been, in my view, more a divine...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Map Talk RD Congo
Being 100% honest, I'm exhausted. This is a time of the year that is always a struggle. Add to it that we've been hybrid (I, personally,...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
La Biguine - La Musique des Antilles
One of my level 3 classes had a cool discussion today about different styles of music from the Black Francophone world. To scaffold...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Sénégal Map Talk Retell
I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of this group. I’ve begun having students do a FlipGrid retell just about everyday where they...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
Map Talk : Le Sénégal
As part of a unit we are working on about La Musique, today we started an introductory exploration of Senegal in the form of a Map Talk....
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Feb 24, 2021
- 1 min
Les Communautés - Le Peuple Lenni Lenape
I PROMISE YOU that you can teach culture, and have "difficult conversations" in French class from early on. Here we are in the beginning...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Literacy Tools in the French Classroom
Fun fact: My Master's degree is in Literacy and I'm a certified Reading Specialist. While I have absolutely NO desire to ever actually...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
Le Créole et Les Langues Maternelles
Here is a snippet of a review I did with my seniors from a unit we are doing on other native languages among Black francophone peoples. I...
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Benjamin Tinsley
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
L'Habitat Story with Level Threes
This year has been equal parts challenging and rewarding in the classroom. I made a decision early in the summer that I would take full...
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