Today, I observed Debbie Carretta’s reading class. Since a few of the students were missing, I had the opportunity to sit at one of tables and look on with one of the students. Debbie started the class by taking attendance, but since she couldn’t access the website she ended up passing around a sheet of paper for the students to sign. The students were reading an article from the Tallahassee Democrat about the Integration Statue on campus. I had never really given much thought to the statue, but I found the lesson pretty interesting.
The lesson was trying to get the students to think critically about what the article was saying and the controversy behind the statue and its design. Before the student’s read the article, Debbie went over the term segregation and gave the students some background on American history. The students then read the article from the newspaper and were asked to start on the questions that went along with the article. Most of the students started to struggle when they got to this part, they were unsure about what the questions were asking and how to answer them. Time was just about up and Debbie explained to the students that they would work on this again as a group tomorrow. Later, she told me that they usually spend the last 10-15 minutes listening/reading along as she reads Holes aloud to them.
What were your impressions of the class Jennifer? How did the students handle the reading and how did Debbie assist? What was the interaction between the students?
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