Today I am writing as I look out the window at the new batch of snow that came to visit us to remind us that the cold is yet to be gone. I have never wanted warmer weather so much in my life.
The first three weeks of school have passed and the Focused Inquiry class I help teach gets better everyday. Flight was great, discussing it was greater, and I must say I have grown a bit jealous from my students who got to read two novels that I found to be much more interesting than the two I had to read when I was a freshman. I hope they know how lucky they are.
over the past few weeks we have gone over many discussions of Flight, its content, its author, what it means and does not mean and how it relates to us on a personal level. All of this has gone exceptionally well, the students in my class are full of insight, interesting opinions, thoughts, and ambitions. In my blog today though, I would like to focus on the two opportunities Hayden (my fellow TA) and I have gotten to do.
On a Wednesday last week, Professor Lucas had to go out of town and Hayden and I were left to be in charge of the classroom for the first time this semester. It went great, we discussed more of Flight and showed them some videos on YouTube. It was a more laid back atmosphere and they seemed to enjoy it.
The second time we got a chance to do this was today, Friday, Feb. 5th. This time however we were in charge of the whole class period from beginning to end. We were planning to show them a video of an interview Sherman Alexie had gone through on the Colbert Report. Unfortunately though. the video would not play. so we ended up just talking about the interview without actually showing it to them. which again, went amazingly well. after that we just talked about different blogs out there and how some were turned into books because they were so interesting. we found this particularly interesting because we were talking about how books were fading out and that new technology was taking its place. yet we turned a blog into a book because we found it interesting enough...
something to think about :)
