--Wald der Spät
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The American Literature Study Guide
Allow me to jump straight to my point: I do not believe this study guide is going to be extremely successful. Pessimistic? Maybe, but that certainly doesn't make me wrong. Frankly, I believe that a small portion of the class will end up doing the vast majority of the work on the website, and the remainder of the class will either leech off of those hard workers or ignore the site altogether. Another possibility is that some subjects discussed in the guide will be extremely poorly done, while others will be exceptionally good. Once again, this will be due to the non-homogeneity of work ethic throughout our class. Of course, to make such a bold assumption, I should have evidence to support my assertions. I can say from personal experience that this study guide-making tactic does not work particularly well. I was involved in a similar endeavor in 9th grade where our English class collaboratively made a study guide for The Odyssey. Problems similar and even identical to those just mentioned occurred, which rendered the guide not terribly helpful (at least to me).
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I thought that you guys might remember that effort. I had hoped that juniors would be a bit more -- ah, grownup. Of course this may be a forlorn hope on my part. I hate the idea of having people read and regurgitate and base grades on nothing but that pursuit. If education consists of nothing but that technique, then we are in great trouble. Now, giving people in a class some responsibility for building understanding seems to me to be a much better idea -- even if it is not 100 percent successful. The read and regurgitate method is not 100 percent successful either.
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