{"id":209,"date":"2008-04-29T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/04\/29\/more-time\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T18:05:56","slug":"more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/04\/29\/more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More time&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I felt that my presentation went well. I think it was hard because I wanted so badly to take more time and discuss people\u2019s responses. I really could have gone on a lot longer and had to cut myself off. I just feel that getting into that discussion and really sharing ideas would have made my presentation better.\u00a0 I also wanted to spend some more time looking at the tone change through the characterization of the sniper. I wanted to do that by pulling certain examples of direct and indirect characterization from each page and have students (the class) look at how he (the sniper) evolved or didn\u2019t evolve. I probably would have allotted twenty or more minutes just for that discussion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wish I could have played my CD because I think listening to Bono\u2019s voice and the urgency and tone of \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d would have helped the class get into the concept of war and what it can do to societies. At times I felt nervous and hoped that people would volunteer answers. I guess the only thing that made me nervous was the potential sound of silence when I asked people for their responses. In my classes this year I have such a wonderful group of kids who often fight with each other to be called on, but I\u2019m glad some people stepped up and shared their answers. I tried my best to treat the class as I do my students. I often circulate and even read what my students are writing to maybe ask some follow-up questions or ask for clarification. I find that I discuss a lot in my English classes. We sit in a circle each period and really discuss difficulties and concepts. I feel that this year I was spoiled with such small classes, so teaching ours was a bit daunting. I\u2019m so used to a laid back group communication that it sort of felt weird teaching to a group of people I didn\u2019t know as well.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I really enjoyed my presentation overall. I wasn\u2019t super nervous, but rather wondering if the class would actually discuss because I don\u2019t know the class as well as I know my own students. I have been teaching for seven years so maybe that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t feel as nervous as others did. I also wish I brought the students letter samples with me. They were too cute and really felt empathy for the sniper, even though he killed a woman, a solider and another sniper. I think I just wished there was more time. I guess I feel that my presentation would have been better if I had more time. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I felt that my presentation went well. I think it was hard because I wanted so badly to take more time and discuss people\u2019s responses. I really could have gone on a lot longer and had to cut myself off. I just feel that getting into that discussion and really sharing ideas would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}