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Express Fluency 2019 Info

6/4/2019

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I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

This will be my third year being involved with the Express Fluency summer teacher training, and it's an incredible week. It has the flavor of a big conference, with language labs in the morning and workshops in the afternoons, but it's SMALL. That creates a unique environment that I think makes this conference special.
The intimate setting allows participants to interact with each other and the presenters in casual settings. And boy, do we have some powerhouses! The fact that I am able to put my name along side Justin Slocum Bailey, Joey Dziedzic, Tina Hargaden, Linda Li, well, gosh all hemlock!
We will also have some evening activities planned! And it's in my neck of the woods (the Upper CT River Valley, or the Upper Valley), so come and hang out chez moi!
Soo...here are the details!

Registration: options for lunch and no lunch
Lodging: Comfort Inn in WRJ, discount available; you must call (you CANNOT make the reservation online)  before 1 July and reference code Express Fluency Conference)
Travel info:
Manchester NH airport: 1 hr 20 min
Boston Logan: 2+ hours
Burlington VT: 1.5 hrs
The Dartmouth Coach is an easy way to get from Logan to the UV. Drop-offs in Lebanon, NH and at the Hanover Inn in Hanover, NH. (It has snacks and a movie!)
There is free public transportation in the Upper Valley with Advance Transit. There is a line that goes to the Comfort Inn from the Hanover Inn. It is also possible to get from the Comfort Inn to the HACTC, where the conference is, but does require a line change. There is also an Enterprise Car Rental in WRJ, close to the Comfort Inn.



LOCAL ATTRACTIONS AND SITES (all sites are in Vermont, unless otherwise noted)
Montshire Museum of Science (Norwich)
King Arthur Flour (Norwich)
VINS-Vermont Institute of Natural Science (Quechee)
Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, NH)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Quechee Antique Mall (Quechee)
Simon Pearce glassblowing (Quechee)
Quechee Gorge (Quechee)
Main St. Museum (WRJ)
Billing's Farm (Woodstock)
Dan and Whit's(Norwich)
Upper Valley Aquatic Center (WRJ)
Saint Gauden's Memorial (Cornish, NH)
Hopkins Center 
(Hanover, NH)
Here is a list of additional activities!

HIKES
Dartmouth Outing Club website
Appalachian Trail (NH/VT)

Mt. Tom (Woodstock)
Boston Lot Lake (Lebanon, NH)
Hurricane Hill (WRJ)
Hazen Trail (WRJ)
Ballard Trail (Norwich)
Milt Frye Nature Area (Norwich)

RESTAURANTS
Here are some of my favorites!
Tuckerbox (WRJ): coffee shop and Turkish food
Thyme (WRJ)
Trail Break Taps and Tacos (WRJ)
Phnom Pehn (WRJ): Vietnamese
Yama 
(Lebanon, NH; the Hanover location is no longer open): sushi and Japanese
Carpenter and Main (Norwich)
Molly's (Hanover, NH): very family friendly
Tuk Tuk (Hanover, NH): Thai
Market Table (Hanover, NH)
Ramunto's Brick and Brew (Hanover, NH)
Salt Hill Pub (Hanover, Lebanon, and W. Lebanon, NH): three locations in the UV

Elixir (WRJ): my favorite bar!
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Movie Talk

12/10/2017

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It was great to be able to chat about my favorite, Movie Talk, at today's TCI Maine lunch conversation. I would have loved to talk more, but time was limited, and there was so much going on! But as I promised, here are some of the things I mentioned.
  • My 2016 VFLA Movie Talk Presentation (Movie Talk and Why It's Awesome)
    • I think this presentation is pretty excellent. It walks through the steps I go through before, during, and after a Movie Talk. There's no one way to do MT, but I believe this gives a pretty good starting point.
  • ​My MT folder with A BOATLOAD of resources
  • MT Database
  • The fantastic Christmas video, Monty the Penguin, and my supplemental materials
  • Also, check out my friend Dustin Williamson's blog, which has some MT stuff.
I could go on for days about MT, but I'll save that for another post.
Bises!

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    Allison Litten, the 2019 VFLA TOY, teaches French at the Marion Cross School, a public PreK-6 school in Norwich, Vermont. This is her twenty-third year teaching, and twentieth at Marion Cross.

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