Sun coming through the JFK Presidential Library in Boston.
Hello everyone,
A short Wednesday today, as we debriefed the Socratic Seminar and continued the editing process on the Writing for Justice prompt. Here's what happened today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.Explains the process of change and continuity in a society, place or region.
AGENDA 3/7/18:
Check In/Review of Four Agreements & Six Conditions
Debrief Socratic Seminar
Share Stories
Editing Drafts
Homework: Read the blog! Complete your Writing for Justice narrative (by incorporating today's revisions) if you have not yet. A hard copy is due next class (Friday).
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Check In/Review of Four Agreements & Six Conditions: Here are the Courageous Conversations Agreements. We will always review this at the beginning of class, as it sets the foundation for how we want class to approach the issues we are studying.
At the start of class, we split students up so that we could close the walls and have more students be able to talk (twice as many, in fact!). We will do this from time to time!
Debrief Socratic Seminar: We discussed how the conversation last class went, by first having students anonymously responding to a half sheet of prompts. What could have gone better? Was it challenging to engage? Were you nervous (even just watching)? These are all important things to think about. We then collected the sheets of paper and led students in a conversation about what was coming up for them and how we could potentially improve the conversation next time around.
For my (Mr. Fritz's) side of the room, our conversation touched on these points:
- Not as broad of a topic next time
- The pyramid of racism was what was most recently introduced, so more of the conversation was about that
- Need to normalize the conversation - everyone was so excited to have it that people dominated
- Closed walls would help next time, smaller groups
- More background needed on the topics
- The conversations continued outside!
- Use protocols like "everyone has to talk 3 times" or "three before me" to normalize participation
- Use small groups before the conversation, so people are more comfortable
Share Stories: After the conversation about the Socratic Seminar, we had students get out their Writing for Justice pieces that students worked on in class last week. Today was time for a peer review, using a guide we passed out in class. We wanted the reviewers to ask three questions about the piece, and for the writer to incorporate the answers to those questions in the revised paper, which will be due next class.
Editing Drafts: The rest of class was given to students to continue to revise their Writing for Justice pieces. Again, the final draft of these will be graded and is due next class. See you then!
At the start of class, we split students up so that we could close the walls and have more students be able to talk (twice as many, in fact!). We will do this from time to time!
Debrief Socratic Seminar: We discussed how the conversation last class went, by first having students anonymously responding to a half sheet of prompts. What could have gone better? Was it challenging to engage? Were you nervous (even just watching)? These are all important things to think about. We then collected the sheets of paper and led students in a conversation about what was coming up for them and how we could potentially improve the conversation next time around.
For my (Mr. Fritz's) side of the room, our conversation touched on these points:
- Not as broad of a topic next time
- The pyramid of racism was what was most recently introduced, so more of the conversation was about that
- Need to normalize the conversation - everyone was so excited to have it that people dominated
- Closed walls would help next time, smaller groups
- More background needed on the topics
- The conversations continued outside!
- Use protocols like "everyone has to talk 3 times" or "three before me" to normalize participation
- Use small groups before the conversation, so people are more comfortable
Share Stories: After the conversation about the Socratic Seminar, we had students get out their Writing for Justice pieces that students worked on in class last week. Today was time for a peer review, using a guide we passed out in class. We wanted the reviewers to ask three questions about the piece, and for the writer to incorporate the answers to those questions in the revised paper, which will be due next class.
Editing Drafts: The rest of class was given to students to continue to revise their Writing for Justice pieces. Again, the final draft of these will be graded and is due next class. See you then!
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