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This is a thread for any lesson material for Middle School English 3 Special Lesson: What's in a Name?: U.S. Place Names.  Please share your contributions here~!

Hey...
I just did this lesson as my open class.  We kind of just used the idea from the book and expanded in our own direction.  Pretty much is was about 25 minutes of lecture.  Then we used the conversation, which you will have to prepare.  We printed them out, cut them up, mixed them up and gave each conversation to a group.  They had to put the conversations in order.  You could do this 6 different times if you like, just rotating the conversations around until each team does each conversation but we only rotated them twice and then had each group prepare and present their conversation to the class.  It was pretty interesting and informative.  You could easily attach it to the conversations in the book if you like. 

I hope you can use it!   

ok..... i'm hitting my head against a wall for this lesson. it's the last lesson in the book, so i'm trying to stretch it out as far as i can to avoid seven weeks of improvising my lessons/scrambling to find good materials. since there are pretty much no listening/speaking points to teach, what are you guys doing?! i saw the two lessons above me, and thank you!

Hi Rookiewaygook....
I don't know if it's just my crap school computer or if there's a problem with the file, but for some reason I can't seem to be able to download your pokemon ppt! I really would like to use it because my kids go apesh*t over pokemon, and I also am at a loss as to what else to do with them.
Any ideas? When I click on the link to download it, it just comes up as "index.php" and only registers as 1.1mb. Just wondering if you've ever come across this before....
Cheers

Thanks for your brilliant idea.