Thursday, October 17, 2013

Book Club Presentations: Day 2


Today I was both the student and the teacher. The first group that presented was the Wondrous Words book club and I thought they did a great job.  Their activity was interesting and something I’ve never seen before.  We did what they called “chorus reading”.  We picked a line out of a text that stood out to us and then got into groups to put our phrases together.  Putting the phrases together was very fun and it was interesting to see what everyone came up with.  Their ignite talk went well; the only thing I would have done differently is to not have words on the PowerPoint.  The words they had up there were what they were saying and it distracted me from the speaker more than helping me follow along. 
   My group had the book “Ladybugs, Tornadoes, and Swirling Galaxies”.  I think our presentation went fairly well.  The activity part got kind of hectic, but I hope everyone understood what we were doing and why we were doing it.  We didn’t really stick to our “parts” we talked about, so while some input was good, it got really jumbled and confusing at the same time.  I think it would have been better if we acted out our whole presentation as a group to see how it would go, but it always goes differently with real students.  Overall this was a great learning experience for me.

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