Dateline: Los Angeles
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I was running errands this morning and drove through Burbank and Glendale. There are a lot of memories attached to the places in these locations, so driving along the freeway is like thumbing through a scrapbook.
I've been trying to shop for books for teaching US style curriculum to lower grades, for several friends of mine. They would be used for essentially immersion-style (ESL) teaching with Korean kids, as opposed to the more conventional (and more popular) EFL, where Korean is often leveraged as the "L1" (jargon from the language-teaching field) to teach about English.
Immersion style teaching is much more difficult, but it's very rewarding when applied successfully.
Finding the types of books used in US classrooms is surprisingly difficult – at least in retail. I'm sure there are ways to order them, online, but there seems to be no retail market. What I've had to settle on buying is textbooks and materials targeted at the homeschool market in the US.
I also found an alligator puppet. How can this be bad? I bought it.