Week 2, First Day and Cyber-Assignment
Today in all the classes we broke into discussion groups, known as Literature Circles. I loved watching students engaged in fruitful conversation about Mrs. Rosa Parks. The 11-11:50 a.m. class actually completed their discussion of the first 71 pages.
If any students was not prepared today, there will be an opportunity later this week, perhaps Wednesday, for students to discuss the text assignment for this week.
For those students who participated in the Literature Circle, please reflect on the process and what worked best for you re: such a discussion.
We reviewed the syllabus and how the weekly reading goes. This week we are reading Alexie and Douglass from 50 Essays. Note the readings for Hacker. Tomorrow we will talk about Alexie.
I also collected Keller from the 10-10:50 class. If you would like feedback, turn the summary in. There is no summary requested for Alexie or Douglass. Read and annotate the selections. I put links to the essays in Friday's post.
If any students was not prepared today, there will be an opportunity later this week, perhaps Wednesday, for students to discuss the text assignment for this week.
For those students who participated in the Literature Circle, please reflect on the process and what worked best for you re: such a discussion.
We reviewed the syllabus and how the weekly reading goes. This week we are reading Alexie and Douglass from 50 Essays. Note the readings for Hacker. Tomorrow we will talk about Alexie.
I also collected Keller from the 10-10:50 class. If you would like feedback, turn the summary in. There is no summary requested for Alexie or Douglass. Read and annotate the selections. I put links to the essays in Friday's post.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 12:39 PM
8 Comments:
Michael March
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11:00 am
26 August 2013
Response to Literary circle
I felt the group was too large. It should have been split into two. It was also hard to hear what the other people in the group were saying amongst everything else in the class. Other than that, I felt it went fine.
Denise Burgara
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
26 August 2013
Reponse to Literary Circle
Although the group was too large and some of us spoke very little, overall the discussion went well today, we summarized all 3 chapters and even connected some ideas. We said that Rosa Parks was very conservative and quiet, she always tried to be part of a group, never be the one person being noticed. Brienna said something very interesting in the discussion, she said that Rosa Parks went through her whole life without ever "winning" anything. And Melon stated how it was so interesting how Rosa Parks was so private about her life but yet, the government flew her body, after she had passed away, to 3 different places in the world. We were able to share our thoughts and we understand that the book is very different than other previous books written about Rosa Parks. Next time we should be able to go through every Job, as we did not in this group discussion.
Patrick Yu
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
8/26/13
Response to Literature Circle
Our literature circle was okay for the first time. We summarized and went through the key points of the first 72 pages. We took turns listening to what others had to say about each chapter. Some even told us how they can relate to Rosa Park's struggles.
We were unable to include everyone's role in the discussion. Next time we will plan better so that all roles will be included.
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Huy Vo
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 am
26 August 2013
Response to Literary circle
The literature circle is a commutative process in which students share their opinions and point of view to the group. It is fruitful because it lets other students analyze the story in many different lights. One of my problem was that I sometimes had difficulty hearing what the students were saying. The students were bright individuals and gave an intellectual simulating conversation. Covering all 3 chapter allowed me to see other key points within the chapters.
Mussa Obad
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11:00 am
26 August 2013
Response to Literary circle
After the literature circles, I felt like the best is yet to come. Although the circle wasn't as active as it should be, I feel like we all got a feel for how it works and will be more familiar next time around. I noticed that during the literature circles I picked up a few key points of some chapters that I didn't catch while I was reading it, and that helped a lot. I think that's what its all about, exchanging viewpoints of text and formulating opinions on the text. Overall, I found the literature circles helpful.
Anita Madden
Professor Sabir
English1A 11:00-11:50
26 August 2013
Honestly I think the discussion went ok. It was a little difficult for us to pick our roles because no one really wanted to engage in the group discussion. If it was not for our groups discussion director the conversation wouldn't had went no where. Besides that I had a little bit more clarification of what the chapters were about and a lot of good points and comments came up during our discussion. Overall this may work for people who like to work with others like myself but not well with people who don't.
christian Logan
professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
26 August 2013
The literature circles were an excellent learning opportunity. Our discussion director did a great job of keeping the focused and talking. In our discussion of the first three chapters we were able to exchange our ideas and views of the book. Although we did not speak as much as we could have mostly because it was our first circle, I think our future circles will entail more participation.
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