Amélie

So I showed my favorite French movie of all times to my French IV film class: Le Fabuleux Déstin d'Amélie Poulain.

I suppose I should have known better.  The group is mostly boys. 

At the end, when Nino and Amélie kiss, they all laughed.  Laughed!  Like "Haw haw haw" laughed!

I suppose I wasn't expecting that reaction, but it tells me that they are definitely uncomfortable with displays of affection.

That's ok.  I'm not bummed that they didn't get it, but it definitely changed the experience of the film. 

For our project we're going to start to do bits of film.  They've written, now they will create. They have to write their own introduction to the film Amélie, then film it, and narrate it themselves.  Should be interesting.  I'm a bit burned out on trying to find out their emotional involvement in the film.  Let them play. 

Advisory

Advisory is a section that I'm supposed to lead twice a week, for 30 minutes.  I have nine students, all varied ages, grades, social groups, backgrounds, everything.  The one thing that they have in common is that they are all quiet, and they are all shy.

Extremely shy.

No one wants to talk.

they are all willing to participate in advisory, for the most part.

But they are terrified to talk out loud.


And I'm stuck.


What do you do with nine shy kids?  Color the whole freaking time?  I am realizing that I have no clue what to do with them.  All of my tricks work with outgoing, social kids willing to participate and take risks.

I feel shut down by these kids because they don't want to talk.  It's 30 minutes devoted to conversation.  What am I supposed to do?


This frustrates me beyond belief.

I hate advisory.