I visited three classrooms today: a math class, a Kannada language class, and a history class. The students in all the classes enjoyed showing off for us U.S. teachers! In the history class the teacher asked me to get up in front of the students and teach an English lesson (not all the students know English since it would be taught as a third language). I wrote on the board "My name is Janna. I'm from Chicago, Illinois." The students read off the sentence out loud while I was writing it! We then talked about what they knew of Chicago: the Meat Packing Industry and then the teacher told me they had just been studying a John Keats poem entitled "The Dove". I discussed the Romanticism in poetry a bit. It was fun!
The lessons were mostly lectures and no group work, which was different from the school from yesterday. The teachers seemed to really want the students to do well, though.
I've attached some pictures below.
(This evening we went to the city center and bought saris...I'll write another post about that later).