A few of my strongest Deaf and hard-of-hearing highschool college students perk up and spend money on a writing job if there’s some snarky factor concerned.
A few years in the past The Washington Publish had some type of competitors the place they requested readers (in honor of Valentine’s Day) to submit rhyming pairs of sentences, the primary very romantic and the opposite emphatically unromantic. For instance: “I see your face when I’m dreaming. // That’s why I get up screaming.
I made a be aware of the thought.
Over time, every time I challenged such very shiny college students to give you such sentences, I watched in awe as these college students grew to become animated, mentioned synonyms for the rhyming (they even used a dictionary!), and solely turned to me for assist once they had been really caught.
As a veteran trainer, I can really perceive why a few of my Deaf and hard-of-hearing teenage college students dislike all issues “rose-colored” and what they understand as “goody goody”. That is significantly true for these very good college students with a listening to loss who “ping pong” between two worlds, that of their classmates with “regular listening to” and the one the place you don’t have to make use of your voice to talk…
As a lot as I need to give the scholars area to specific themselves, I additionally need to stress the necessity to “sheath their claws”, use their wit correctly, and keep away from insulting different college students, immediately or not directly.
That’s the place “backhanded compliments” are available. Insults thinly disguised as compliments, comparable to: “That’s an exquisite photograph of you. I didn’t acknowledge you at first”.
I created the exercise on this downloadable worksheet hoping to make the scholars extra conscious of the barbs that may disguise in supposedly harmless compliments, and methods to reply when such “compliments” are directed at them.
As well as, naturally, the scholars are studying, writing, and utilizing vocabulary in context.
I hope you discover this exercise helpful to your college students as properly! Let me know within the feedback.
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