| Body | A few weeks ago (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/24639) we shared resources for creating NCAA basketball tournament-style brackets in foreign language classes. Although many teachers have their students vote on favorite songs in the brackets, they can be used in other ways as well. Here are more resources for implementing March Madness in your classroom:
- From the Mejor Dicho blog, this year's selection of songs and pictures of the bulletin board that the class will use: http://www.nikitottingham.com/blog/la-locura-de-marzo
- Your Spanish learners can vote online in the March Music Madness organized at SpanishPlans.org: https://spanishplans.org/mmm18/
- Latin and Greek teachers, check out Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers' Maria Dementia, which will feature 32 heroes and heroines from classical mythology: http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com/2018/02/martia-dementia-2018.html
- The Mis Clases Locas blog features all female musicians in this year's Mania Musical de Mujeres: http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2018/02/mania-musical-de-mujeres-march-music.html
- Young learners may enjoy brackets with animals; read how on Mundo de Pepita: https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-madness-with-twist-how-i-made.html
- Unrelated to brackets, but related to March, here's a 30-day March "Madness" challenge from Pomegranate beginnings that could be used for any target language: http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-madness-30-day-challenge.html
- From En français, SVP!, here's a list of this year's French bracket contenders for top song: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/manie-musicale-2018/
- Spanish teachers who are asking their students to compare songs may appreciate this Google Doc with helpful vocabulary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9eOCfjEUCv-P9nrx867-sX3lsPnDYtVn-Mt2R_N_cw/edit
- Finally, regardless of your target language, a great place to start is a collection of survey responses from teachers who do some form of March Madness, compiled by The Comprehensible Classroom: https://martinabex.com/2018/02/25/march-music-madness-advice-from-the-experts/
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