the Class overall

I really enjoyed this class this semester! I think that we had a lot of really beneficial conversations, and i feel a lot more comfortable about teaching literature in a classroom now. I think that i now have a good background about the various ways you can approach a book, and all the things i can do with a book, like guest speakers, field trips, etc. There is so much i didn't know about that is possible, while i was going through middle and high school. I hope that teachers are actually using these techniques in their classrooms, besides the ones we read about. I think some of the strong points of this class were the blogging. It made me want to pay more attention and not be so stressed about having to write a formal paper about the information we were learning about. That just adds a lot of added pressure that wasn't really needed because i feel like blogging gives just as much insight if we did the work or not. I also liked how our class focused on whole class discussion more than just lecturing. This also made me do the readings so i knew what to talk about, and when i did talk i didn't sound stupid or uninformed.
Something i would recommend fixing for the next semester would be to make more requirements for the chapter teaches. I felt that they were very redundant and when we had more in one day, it was pretty boring and i sometimes found myself not paying as close of attention. I would try to add some more creative ways to teach or discuss the chapters so each person isn't doing the same thing every time.
Other than that, i really enjoyed this class, and wish i could have you for 379!!