Such a great acronym for remembering coordinating conjunctions. I used the idea of my former student teacher Julie to actually make fans with my 6th graders to help them remember the acronym. I also added the rule that any time I said, "FANBOYS," they had to say, "Oh, it's so hot in here" and fan themselves. Class discussion, then, went something like this:
Me: "Okay, who sees the FANBOY--"
Students: (fanning themselves madly) "Oh, it's so hot in here."
Me: "--in this sentence?"
Student 1: "But."
(Male students snicker and exchange mischievous glances.)
Me: (ignoring the middle school humor) "Yes, but is the FANBOY--"
Students: "Oh, it's so hot in here."
(Male students giggle.)
Me: "Yes, but has two meanings, but the second one is spelled with two ts. What does the one we're talking about show about the sentence? Hmm? What does this FANBOY--"
Students: "Oh, it's so hot in here."
Me: "--mean in this sentence?"
Needless to say, it was a bit of a laborious lesson, though quite humorous.
My opinionated student told me today that he'd had quite enough of FANBOYS and could we please not say it any more? :)
2 comments:
this fanboys stuff sounds like M&H from junior year. Articles of the confederation...weak!
good job ;)
LOL. M&H were awesome! Still talk about those teachers sometimes. Constitution...awesome!
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