classroom confusion

A crazy day of teaching. I show up for my eight o'clock class only to find the classroom is locked. My students it turned out have organized themselves into another classroom and send out a representative to tell me so. The only problem is that I was supposed to be in the technology classroom and I spent last night preparing material to put on the computer, in particular, a number of images from England and America. For England, I had pictures of, for example, Big Ben, Princess Diana, the House of Commons, Stonehengd, King Arthur. For America, I had the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon, Old Faithful, President Bush, a picture of the constitution, Tiger Woods and a few other images. These were just meant to give them ideas of things that are associated with each culture. However, since I could not get into the technology classroom, I could not do this class. So I went for the original plan I had written about earlier, the one I did not pull off with the first class, about stereotypes. It was a smaller class, only about 30 students, and the class actually went pretty well.

For the two o'clock class, the technology classroom was in fact open; however, there were no students there. It turned out they had not been informed of the classroom change. After about twenty minutes they are somewho rounded up. However, given the seating arrangement of this classroom, I could not use the group discussion of the morning class, so I used the images I had downloaded for the morning class to talk about culture and it worked pretty well. I ask them what images come to mind when they think of American and British culture and we compare images, the ones in their head and th eones on my screen.

The only problem is that now I have done three sections of the class all differently: the first one we only got through the introductions, the second one we did a group discussion on stereotypes and the third one we studied images from British and American culture. So I will have to straigthen this out somehow. I'm just not sure how.