Strange vibe to the class yesterday. I think the students are scared of me, even though I have been waaaaay nicer than I usually am at the beginning. But, it is also possible the space in our classroom is inhibiting our building of community. I think this because even when some groups finished talking early and were waiting for the other groups the students didn't chat about life, etc with each other. Weird. I almost wanted to say, talk amongst yourselves, get to know each other but then I thought "should i be seen as encouraging non-work talking in groups as the teacher?"
The room is small, every seat is taken. There isn't room for a circle. We could do 2 rows of arcs but I hate having students seat behind a whole row of other students. Maybe I'll ask the students to help me think through this problem.
Anyhoo, what we did: developed a vocabulary for talking about writing, made an outline out of Pratt.
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I like this outline of Pratt you did for your class, I think I will incorporate this into my class as well.
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