Assignment 26: Tag Howard

Of course, the end of this year was a bit odd considering coronavirus and all, but I think the picture we got of your class was pretty complete. As far as the main types of activities I'll divide them up into bookwork, timed writing, and interactive activities. I'll be honest, I hate reading out of the textbook as opposed to an interactive lesson but I accept that a book has its place in then classroom. However, in my opinion that place is as a supplement to an ongoing lesson, not as a lesson in its own right. So I would submit that the book-centric lessons (while potentially functional) were not fully effective. Timed writings on the other hand, were a great way to translate the skills of the AP test into a a classroom format and, while I know some may have gotten less out of it than I have, I enjoyed the class discussions. I greatly preferred the on paper version of discussion to the online version as I personally think that a lot of my commentary is in part informed by the class discussion, whether it be what I thought of as a mistake actually being intentional or some nebulous concept that I did not understand. Finally, interactive lessons like the Socratic seminars were fun, but I don't feel that I got much out of it. It may be because I am already an avid reader and so the benefits of comprehension reading were lost on me, but I just was not particularly advantageous to me.