so today in the double we're going to be working mainly on your actually only on
your essay it's the first half we're going to sort of do a bit of a think
tank so get some ideas going that you can write about for your essays so the
first thing that I want to talk about is all of the texts and how they can relate
because something that will make your essays really really rich is how you can
sort of interrelate the texts okay if you're talking about the bell jar if you
can reference Jane Eyre as well or if you can you know reference the yellow
wallpaper that will kind that will look really nice I'm aware of some of the
girls reluctancy to speak and to sort of shout out the answer so to cater for
that I plan on having some group discussions so those students will have
the opportunity to share their answers with their peers and if they feel
comfortable they can then go on to share those answers with the rest of the class
that's probably the biggest issue in this class is sort of students some
students being a bit apprehensive to to speak out and when she says that she
keeps for yourself other than every time he steps over a husband I just found
that you know how lucky fades on the pool and it's like stepping over husband
every time really utter insider in a sense if we're
like looking at women in a sense like the liberation of women like if she'd
like stepping or rivers in like she has more power yeah yeah yeah definitely and
I think that's what those men too I found the one of the beers through risks
with this class in particular is that it become it can become really teacher
centered and I certainly found that the first time that I took the class so I
after watching some of events classes I picked up that the girls were more than
willing to sort of read out loud and it gave them an opportunity to become
involved and they can definitely handle the text I think it's also a way of
getting to know the students when you ask them to read out loud you're
connecting with them and certainly for katie rose has a very short space of
time as a teaching candidate to actually meet students and get to know them it's
a really good way of connecting with them without asking something that could
be arduous they may not be able to answer as well as building of course
their confidences as readers yeah and you can always find three or four girls
that are more than willing to that really enjoy reading and what about it
was Mother's not fathers who caused this it was called a genetic predisposition
it was mentioned Jane Eyre for example rather has the madness but not a problem
yes that's right isn't that interesting about anything that needs because Beth
is the mother was this connection it must be you know
yes and yeah and it was all relevant to two women and that it was a genetic
predisposition one of the things i wanted katie-rose just to make sure that
she had very direct questions so we clarified what the questions would be
because katie rose wanted to have a group discussion which is a really great
way of teaching and so in order to do that i wanted to make sure that she had
very specific questions which would scaffold the students in terms of
teaching they're telling giving them some signals about what she wanted to
talk about and building slightly some answers into the questions and I think
that Katie roses plan in terms of Shalott beginning with that quote which
was quite a chunky difficult quote it was a really good idea because there
were so many ideas in there for students to to read and perhaps pick up on you no
one if not all five or six ideas that were there so what ya one of those
things I just wanted very specific questions because of the dynamic of the
class it really relies on student participation and what I have noticed in
some of the past classes is not all of the students are willing to be vocal
participants so I plan to utilize some of the students skills by perhaps being
ascribed and writing down the ideas that are happening within the class just take
a minute girls to write some of these ideas down because we've been going at
quite a pace oh my god he done an excellent job our names and everything
Oh done it's couldn't even have too much of a PowerPoint you used as a background
yet create a discussion point and then moving to the board especially with
getting Jenny to get up there and actually write on the board I thought
was natural because it meant you could at uni there were additions to the ideas
that you put in the PowerPoint you