Thursday, Nov. 3 we will make our presentations. There are 3 groups presentations and one individual, Ade. His partners didn't show up today. For absent students we'll have to figure out a make up assignment. I am open to ideas.
Teachers
Prepare a lesson plan to hand out to me and an assignment as well. The class doesn't have to have anything printed unless the exercise or evaluative tool is printed. If there are copies you can get them made here if you arrive early.
Self-Reflection
The assignment after the presentation will be to reflect on the process of preparing a lesson, teaching it and then seeing through an evaluative tool, how well the class does.
How well did your students do? What would you change, if anything? What did you learn?
Student Audience Reflection
Students, respond to the other presentations specifically, that is, what was the lesson presented and what did you like about how it was structured. Were there any surprises from the teacher or from the class, yourself included?
Do you have any unresolved questions? If so, ask them here. You can be anonymous on the peer-teacher(s) feedback.
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Adetona Adewale
Professor Sabir
English 1B
06 November 2011
The imagery group was cool because they used metaphors to express the meaning of imagery. They also talked about themes like sights, sounds, tastes, scents, and sensations. In addition, the poem that they chose to use was quite graphic and that made me visualize what was talking about.
My group we were the sound and sense presenters and we discussed rhyming schemes and rhyming patterns. We also mentioned how rhymes ending at the end of the sentence and how prolonging the rhyme creates more drama. Finally we covered how poets use the methods of juxtaposition and consonance.
The form group made us aware of things like ballads, sestinas, sonnets, and villanelles and a couple more that I chose not to name. They made reference to the line structuring which was in an A-B format. But what they talked about the most that was my favorite is the way that lines get recycled and reused.
The group that presented the meter portion of the presentations said that the lines mix between accentual, syllabic, iambic, pentameter, and ace purposeful. As well, they told the class that iambic pentameter which consists of five accents with two syllables in each accents. My favorite part about their presentation was the addition the board to teach the class because it made their teaching a lot more interactive.
Tia Gangopadhyay
Professor Sabir
English 1 B
8 November 2011
Self Reflection:
I really enjoyed being able to prepare a lesson and teach it because it helped me understand my concept (imagery) a lot more. Often times teaching a concept to someone else re-inforces the concept for you. This was the case for our presentation. I definitely felt more confident in my knowledge about imagery after teaching the lesson. I felt that our presentation was successful since everyone did spectacular on our evaluative tool, a quiz. My peers were all really attentive and respectful during our presentation. If I were to change something, I might have gone over the quiz if we had time so that we could discuss other peoples' ideas about imagery, especially in the example poem. I learned a lot about the uses of imagery, the purpose of imagery and the vast array of poems (nearly all of them) that use imagery.
Student Audience Reflection:
Joseph and Ade presented Sound and Sense which I found really interesting because I was unaware of how closely tied poetry is to music. Rhythm, beat and meter are all an essential part of poetry.
Melvin and Nick presented Form which was really difficult to comprehend because of the complexity and diversity of form structures in poems. I really liked their evaluative tool, the worksheet with example poems that we had to label with different poetry forms. It reinforced the lesson and made it clearer for me to see and understand.
Arjmand and Igor presented meter which was also really difficult to comprehend because of the complexity of the material. But, they did an excellent job, especially the fact that they showed what they meant through examples that they wrote on the board. I really appreciated that they put poetry stanzas on the board and then broke the stanzas meter down with us, showing how to find the meter of a poem. I found that really useful.
Overall, I really enjoyed all the presentations and I felt like I learned a lot.
Melvin Arquero
Professor Sabir
Engloh 1B
6 November 2011
SELF REFLECTION:
I enjoyed the overall process of conducting a lesson about the the various qualities of poetry. With my partner, Nick, we were assigned "Form" in poetry. Because there are countless forms of poetry, we were only assigned five: free verse, sestina, ballad, sonnet, and the villanelle. We were well-prepared for our presentation, and we even had a quiz afterwards to see how well our peers understood our material.If i could change one thing, it would be that we would have just gone over each poem on the quiz together as a class, instead of having the students figure it out for themselves. I did not expect that explaining the complex structures of the poems was going to be difficult. Overall, I learned a lot about the differing forms of poetry and why writers decide to follow this very strutured way of writing.
STUDENT AUDIENCE REFLECTION:
The first group was the imagery group. I think that they did very well. They provided a poem and really examined and dissected the imagery presented in the poem.
The next group was Sound and Sense. I liked the way they discussed their material, and I learned about beats and rhythm.
The next one was meter, and I thought that was anotehr interesting presentation. I always wondered what meter meant in poetry, and how can count a "foot" in a line and such. The presentation gave me knowledge of these things, and they even gave a lot of examples to reinforce the material in our heads. In conclusion, I think that the class did a wonderful job in presenting their materials, and it seemed that we were all very prepared to give our presentations.
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