Three favorite Lectures

 


Favorite lectures 


Fishbowls:


Through out the semester professor Brady introduced the class to fishbowls, and this was part of many of the favorite lectures. In these lectures, we engaged in fishbowl discussions, following the principles of Socratic seminar. Class mates  were encouraged to speak loudly and clearly, cite evidence from the text, and use the text to support their arguments. Respectful listening, sticking to the subject, and talking to each other rather than only addressing the leader we were able to speak our mind. Paraphrasing accurately was also crucial for effective communication by communicating a story in a different form then previous talked on.

Workshop #2:

The next favorite lecture was when we worked on workshop 2, as we had to work with a pice of writing that had such as an insightful meaning to the original story. We had to rewrite the ending of “Children of the sea”. The best part of this lecture was that we had to work as a team,organize the overall presentation including the rewrite which we give a very complex happy ending in France, we had to be creative as a group. After all presentations were done, it was whole to understand that they no such things to a happy ending. 

Imperfection:

One of the concepts that was very intriguing from the lectures was the concept of perfectionism. This concept was brought up with the short story “The Birthmark”, this story shows how far will people go to perfection. As in the story Aylmer's relentless quest to remove his wife's birthmark shows a symbol of his desire for perfection which little does Aylmer know that he’s only taking away his wife perfection. The lecture encouraged us to contemplate the complexities of human relationships, and the everlasting search for perfection in a flawed world.


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