I think that Nervous Conditions should be included on next years syllabus. I personally did not find the book in my "Best Books of All Time" list because it seemed like nothing interesting happened until the very last chapters. I think that the main layout for how we worked with the book was good, although sometimes it was overwhelming at times. If everything was balanced correctly, everything would go quite smoothly.
I think that it should be included next year because it answers the questions that we focus on during the year very well. There were many examples as to how to answer the question thoroughly and answering the questions were extremely easy. I think that this book represented the answer to the question that we have been asking all year the best. I think that this is important for how we view the book and how we answer the questions.
I think that when you give them the options of choosing what they do, you should make sure they understand the purpose of all the assignments. For the annotating assignment, you should make sure that the kids realize what the point of annotating is and how it is supposed to help you. This can help people who do things like me not spend 4 hours on just the first C layer. I think that this partially happened to me was because I did not completely understand the point of the annotations. I just wrote down what was happening in the book. After you explained to me the purpose of the annotations, they helped me more during the rest of the book.
I think that the way that we worked with Nervous Conditions was good because it gave us some choices in what we wanted to do and what we thought we could do the best in. I think that the fact that there was some variety made things a little bit more interesting for us because in most classes, we don't get to make a playlist for every chapter we read. I liked the way that this was done and I hope to do it again at some point.
Time spent on A and B layers: 2 hours and a half total (includes movie and writing time periods)
I han't thought about it this way. I think that you're right. Nervous Conditions does answer the question of this class. And, I also like the way we did the projects.
ReplyDeleteI think you're correct on the project. Both the C 1 and 2 layers went smoothly for me, but when I found out that the A and B layers were coming one after the other, I didn't feel as great.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your decision about the book. I liked how you put an example of your experience with the book's projects
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the upcoming freshman should read the book next year!I think them reading it would help them learn alot of things
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