With each passing day my students continue to amaze me. I realize that the week is not over and therefore it is to early for me to blog, but I can't help myself.
Today was amazing! We participated in our first "Socratic Seminar" which was a reflective book talk. The students were instructed to choose one thing from their book (one line--one statement) that they felt was particularly important or powerful. Once a point was presented we discussed it in whatever means the class took it. Some made text to text connections, there were text to world connections, there were text to media connections made, there were connections made from 1942 to 2013, there were connections made between church and technology; like I said, it was amazing!
Words cannot describe how proud I am of my students right now.