Critical Analysis #3

Whew! I almost forgot about this entry. Any how, last class was certainly interesting. Mostly because of the evaluator that came to observe you/us for a large part of the class session. You know, that really stinks that they have to conference with you during our class time. Observing you is one thing, but going over your evaluation with you during our class time doesn't seem right-especially if they're going to take as long as this last lady did. Not that I minded that extra time to work on our projects....not at all, but it would've been best if she questioned anything you do or don't do they'd want to visit with you on a more personal leve, no?

The group that presented did an awesome job. Unfortunately, I think we all like this jigsaw thing and you might end up being convinced you like it by the end of the coarse, right? Maybe not. It's really neat when you do this jigsaw with a chapter or picture book and put all the pieces together to see the wonderful thought process throughout a story. Well, enjoy your holiday! I'm off to ski in in Brekenridge in Colorado. TTFN

Learning Journal #3

Today's presentation for us went a little longer than originally anticipated. I think our discussions were awesome and everyone was engaged which means that the chapter was interesting. I enjoyed listening to everyone's interpretations of what we read. As we were walking to each group when we began the jigsaw part of our presentation listening to the discussion was interesting. The one article that I didn't care for because I thought there was way too much anger was Malcolm X's article. I purposely went with that one group that was reflecting on it so that I can see what their interpretation of the article was. I was way off base on my view point. I thought Malcolm was negative and focused too much of his anger on the "white" person. I wondered whether his anger stemmed from being in prison and his association with Muhammed or if his anger was evident before his imprisonment. I know that he wanted to educate himself and he did it via writing the dictionary words and their vocabulary meaning. Throughout his imprisonment and his self-education he kept bashing the white race. The converstations with the other groups did not even lean towards these feelings that I felt. That's why they're mine, but..hmmm, was I way off base?