Collaborative Lesson Planning

Hi Celaina,
Free Culture, to me, is the act of sharing a commonwealth of ideas, art, music, and information. It is an holistic perception of our society and culture as stemming from the stream of our ancestors' legacies and extending, in unity, seven generations into the future.

I have been working on a curriculuum for learning music theory on Wikiversity. I will continue to work on that material but would like to begin working on a method to teach English.

I will begin the English course by identifying/outlining overlapping phonemes between the learners' native language(s) and the English phoneme inventory.

I hope to ease the learning curve by starting where the learners currently are and then mapping their pre-existing knowledge onto the new territory. Also, starting at the phoneme level seems helpful as a way to detect possible pronunciation difficulties at an early stage.

Additionally, each lesson plan will have a short poem for the student to experience and read so that they can start building a sense of the rhythms and interactions of words and sentences. This starts the student on the path to a holistic viewpoint of the language, complimentary to the fine grained viewpoint offered by phonemic studies.