20 minute focus session – START.

Quickly searching for notes, but they’ve vanished somewhere. I’m in the classroom, and it’s dark, there are no other students here, and the only light is from my laptop, and a dim light from the projector screen. Having to listen remotely to the course yesterday, I think I really gleaned one key things from my group work: Atlas needs encouragement. As we tried to share our stories, it became apparent that the thoughts of leaving the college were at the forefront of her mind. As I listened to Esa talk about the newly born dear being consumed by a cheetah, I saw how I too have been young (freshly away from home, newly born into the responsibilities of adulthood) – and in that I could see Atlas. In this case, even if there were no external entity chasing her (the burden of life, as we experience it in the college is much to place on such a young frame).

On the more thematic, I think the power of setting was apparent, the output of our group work showed this as we titled our work: ” Roadtrip With Friends – Home To West Virginia”. In this there was a real distinction to be made about who was driving. How the dynamic of the needing to focus on the wheel would change ones ability or inability to have conversation, and how it would free up others to communicate (or not) more freely.

In general, I found that Bobby’s description of moving through the process of critical thinking, from reading, to writing, to discussion, and synthesis into something new was powerful. I wonder about the process we’re engaging in as a class. Are we: looking at letters on a page, deconstructing those words, and reconstructing them into a new story, and play?

I also am giving thanks for Dr. Greens flexibility with the remote session!