Week Six Wednesday

I don't know. I felt like I could have done better today.

The assignment was for them to read one of three very short essays (at home), and come to class prepared to discuss them, particularly in terms of the introductions and conclusions.

As is somewhat typical in this kind of situation, my students didn't want to talk much.

I should have anticipated that this was going to happen and come up with some concrete activities or questions to break them out of their apathy, but instead we all pretty much sat around like a bunch of semi-retarded children on a broken down short buss.

Next time, I need to plan on their lethargy and come up with specific strategies to break them out of it.