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• Parallel Lines: A Speaking & Listening Strategy Transcript

  Speaker 1: Get ready to do your parallel lines.

  Find someone that wasn't your

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  Parallel Lines: A Speaking & Listening Strategy Transcript

  Speaker 1: Get ready to do your parallel lines.

  Find someone that wasn't your partner and stand in front of them.

  I started GI using my classroom as called Parallel Lines.

  So open up the inner circle a little bit more.

  This really gives us an opportunity for kids to have multiple opportunities to share and hear the work that they're doing.

  Does everybody have a partner?

  We split the group into two. There's an inner circle and an outer circle where they're facing each other.

  Not only are you sharing your work, but you're also listening very carefully to the way that they wrote or they did their trans-languaging. We're going to tell them one thing we really liked that they did very well, and give them a suggestion on maybe it would sound better if we did it that way, okay? So glow and a grow. Ready? Go.

  Speaker 2: What is your questions on?

  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. How did the human being in these [inaudible 00:00:58] effect our environment.

  Speaker 4: Humans negatively effect ecosystems.

  Speaker 5: I heard that you said, and here I look at this I think it would sound better if you switch human beings and these amounts. Like you switch them, how do the needs and wants of human beings effect our land?

  Speaker 4: Okay.

  Speaker 6: I really liked how you said it in the order. I think that was one of your goals.

  Speaker 7: This part I feel like this is too small of a sentence, like you can expand it.

  Speaker 8: Okay.

  Speaker 1: Outside circle, take one step to the right. Change faces. You're going to be looking at somebody new. Go.

  After that, one of the circles rotates, so that they're sharing with multiple partners.

  Speaker 9: Some examples of contamination are excess garbage ...

  Speaker 10: Contamination.

  Speaker 9: ... Contamination.

  Speaker 11: Can you read like the last part?

  Speaker 1: I like that the kids are all in one area, and I can really listen to the conversations that they're having, and get a very easy quick check to see if there's any misconceptions when they're sharing out their work.

  Speaker 12: You kinda missed a bit of words, but that was all that I had. Nice job, I really like yours.

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