Cursive!

I had a beautiful EFL lesson plan ready to go: vocabulary, reading samples, practice activities, conversational practice...

Somehow, I can't explain how,  there was a coup.  They refused to do the lesson.  All they wanted to do was learn how to write in cursive!  It looks so much more beautiful than print, they all argued.

From a practical standpoint, I believe there is a lot of value in teaching ELLs cursive.  Many teachers still write in cursive, or a half-breed of cursive and print.  This can be almost impossible for my students to read.  (All caps is also a great challenge.)  

​So I threw out the lesson for the day and we learned cursive.  (A moment of silence, please, for the death of my beautiful lesson plan.)