Mafia Fifth-Graders and Detective Sixth-Graders

My sixth-graders were on the speaking period of Lesson 1: What Grade Are You In?.

I prepared a detective game in which my students each had a "new identity" card, and went around interviewing other students to find out some new information about their classmates. When the music stopped playing, they had to return to their seats, and hide their playing cards.

I then gave clues about these "suspects", and they had to match the identity of the suspect with one of their classmates.

For another detective-inspired game last year, I used music from Saw and had students tell me they were scared. So we used the Pink Panther Theme instead.

These are all the "suspects".

The class has to guess who has the Ben 2nd Grade playing card for the point.

I thought it was a successful with the 6-2 and 6-3 classes, but not so much with the 6-1 class. It was probably to be expected, since there are a lot of students with attitude problems in that particular class. 

Before I came to Korea to teach, I thought that teachers should be fair and unprejudiced in the way they think about and act around their students. After I started teaching, I realized that all my co-teachers have favorites, whether they be individual students or entire classes, They act more lenient, strict, or defeated depending on the class. 

Of course, the class that she bullies a lot of the time refused to participate during her observed lesson (out of revenge, I think).

Nonetheless, I try to treat all of the students the same, but I definitely like rewarding my more obedient classes with stamps and treats.

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My fifth-graders were on the speaking and reading period of Lesson 1: I'm From Canada!

After some textbook work, we played two rounds of Mafia with the target vocabulary and key expressions. 

Students who didn't clear the mission got bopped on the head with a squeaky hammer toy. Groups who cleared the mission got to bop me once on the head. I think it doesn't need to be said that I gave the hammer to the group member with the greatest conscience and the least violent tendencies.

The randomized playing cards.

Another good class with great kids.