Today was another magical day in which disparate elements seemed to fit together without any special planning. This morning's discussion ranged from social (gender, class, race) implications of mental illness to the political aspects of having army recruiters in our schools, and then after such a heavy discussion, Marrilee revived us by teaching us how to deal with stress. I am very grateful for this particular demo because it reminds us how much good we can do for our students other than simply filling their heads with data that can be bubbled in on a Scantron sheet.
This morning, we opened up with a triple entry journal that predicted what people thought they would see when we visited the Ridges. I'm eager to her about your responses to what you actually encountered and how vivid the differences may have been.
I'm also excited to read about your impressions of the place in general.
This afternoon's reading activity in small groups, in which we all found a short passage and did a "close reading" of the text was very productive in the small group I sat in on; I would love it if some of you would blog (at some depth) about your own discussions and add, perhaps, a bit of reflection on how you might use the concept of "close reading" in your own classes.
No extra reading tonight so I hope you get to make some progress with digesting your research. See ya.
Don
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I'd just like to say that I really enjoyed the "close passage" reading that we did. It was cool how everyone got to pick their own passage share, and the fact that we all had something totally different. It was a nice way to add a different perspective to things.
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