Violent Cases

I was interested to see what they were going to do with this book for two and half hours. I was surprisingly impressed though that you could do so much with the book and not make it extremely boring. I think this group did a really good job with all the different activities. I particularly liked the activity with drawing the comic in groups. I also thought it was a good idea of broadening the lesson into teaching comics, and graphic novels more than just the book. I think we did get off on a tangent though about memories, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It was actually really interesting to listen to. I thought they were very planned out and had a good presentation. I had some reservations about the Marxist theory since it did change how i felt about the book. I still like the book, but i just don't think it was the best lens too look at the book through. We talked about this in class, but i think i would be one of those students, or teacher who might introduce the lens to give some students the ability to find things they might have missed, but i wouldn't focus on it, and i also think that i wouldn't outright say what we were doing. I think i would be a little more subtle about it. I liked the lesson though!