Dec. 2, 2009
Alright. This didn’t work out so well. Actually, in the class period before this was recorded, this discussion turned out pretty great. But the one I got on tape is scattered and inconclusive.
This discussion was the result of a little experiment. First, we did a day of general “awareness” kinds of meditation. Then, the next day, I read for the entire class period without stopping for discussion or explanation. Then, today, I tried to mine the class for ideas so that, all together, we could put together a general theory about what the day’s reading had actually been about. No individual really knew, since the reading was long and complicated. But I was reasonable sure that as a class, they could piece it all together.
Some classes were able to do that pretty well. The discussion I recorded is a bit scattered and inconclusive. Running discussions like this is such a crapshoot. When it works, it’s beautiful. When it flounders and dies, you think you’ll never regain the class’ interest and enthusiasm.
Oh! The travails of the modern teacher of Language Arts!
Behold:
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