Wk 8, part II:
Last night we had our Lit. Circle Chat group...apparently all of the groups met with only our group being fully successful with the LMS site, the other 2 groups had to get creative in order to complete their task of meeting.
As for our group, I believe it went quite well. I was the Director this time, a task I found more difficult than Passagist for last time. We did have a very brief moment where a discussion fell outside of our assigned task, but it was, with the help of another classmate, brought back on task quite quickly. Our discussions I felt were better than the last Lit. Circle...I contribute that to the knowledge we all had of what it was were to do, which last time was more of a learning curve. I very much appreciated the various points of view we all brought to the table regarding the content of each poem. I learned something new that was quite intrigueing...one: Frost had a rather difficult life, thus, would explain his poetry, a life of sadness and turmoil. Second: I learned that the poem Harlem was written just after the Civil War and that the poet was writing about the dreams of slaves and how difficult it was for them to realize their dream(s), whatever they may be.
All and all, I really enjoyed our discussion group again last night. This enhances the learning more than just doing homework on my own.
Pat, I agree on our group this last week going well. Taking different parts from the last time is also nice to be able to get a feel for something different. I feel like I was able to take a more active position with this being my second time. Reading/sharing our views of the readings always seem to help me understand even more as you stated above.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think this chat circle was more in-depth than my last one. I think it's because Dr. Dyer decided to give us full groups this time. Last time there was only 3 in my group, we had good discussion, well two of us did, and so this one, I was much more appreciative of. I really liked the biography part about the authors, we didn't have a biographer last time, and like you, Patrick,I felt like that gave me a little better idea of the way Frost viewed the world, which makes his poetry a little easier to understand.
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