Chapter 6 and 8

For some reason, I couldn't really get into Chapter 6. It may have been the fact that I was trying to read it at two in the morning while working the front desk of Wells; also, I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that it seemed to be a review of things that we talked about in ENG 520 with Dr. Weaver. Those that have had her know that reading a chapter out of a book just can't compare.

Chapter 8 was much more interesting than Chapter 6, and I feel like I got a lot out of it. I didn't know there were so many ways to mess up a class discussion, and I can see some places where it would be easy to go wrong. I have also seen some of these discussion no-no's in some of the places that I've done observations. I like Christenbury's idea of allowing the students to gain control of the class discussion as opposed to keeping that tight rein on things. You know the students must be interested if they're taking an active role in guiding the discussion. I also liked some of the ideas that she outlined to get students involved in class discussion like having them write their own discussion questions. Overall, it was a pretty enjoyable chapter.