Class discussion is one of my favorite things: students coming to some realizations about the readings because they listen to what their colleagues have to say.
Tonight, lots of students changed their minds about "which genre [poem, short story, essay] is most powerful when it comes to expressing the theme[s] for tonight."
We'd read a poem, "The Cross and the Pagan," by Elaine Goodale Eastman; an essay, "The Great Mystery," by Charles Eastman; and three short stories: Steven Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "Sister Josepha," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office Seeker."
Lots of "tensions" to talk about: between religions, between races, between cultures. Or maybe the preposition should be "across": across religions, races, cultures. Or maybe "among"!
Tonight, lots of students changed their minds about "which genre [poem, short story, essay] is most powerful when it comes to expressing the theme[s] for tonight."
We'd read a poem, "The Cross and the Pagan," by Elaine Goodale Eastman; an essay, "The Great Mystery," by Charles Eastman; and three short stories: Steven Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "Sister Josepha," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office Seeker."
Lots of "tensions" to talk about: between religions, between races, between cultures. Or maybe the preposition should be "across": across religions, races, cultures. Or maybe "among"!
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