This chapter went into developing a classroom culture of "Rigor, Inquiry and Intimacy" along with creating a balance between them. Creating a classroom where environment fervent learning occurs is quite the task. Personally I find passion in learning and when the learning is so intense to be labeled as fervent I get excited. This chapter helped to illuminate different ways to foster an environment where students are driven to learn and driven learn and apply that knowledge to the classroom.
I agree with Keene when she mentions the fact that all children are capable of learning fervency, it's just a matter of pulling the passion out of students. The structure of the classroom and the roles of the people in the classroom need to adjusted. Once a restructuring occurs students have a better chance of finding the passion and being enthusiastic about learning.
Four Perfect Pebbles chp. 2
A small town in Germany puts the transition into Nazi Germany into the perspective of those living in Germany at the time. I was surprised that at how slow the transition was from political crock-pot to German ruler and also not afraid people were of Hitler. The slow migration to safety was painful to read about, all I wanted to do was to jump into the book and tell them to leave. Reading that the family just sat and stayed in harms way because they were connected to the town and were too emotionally attached to depart. Then once they finally decided to leave there was an impossible task of getting the right paper work to leave the country or to enter a new country.
This chapter was frustrating to read, because I new all the parts of the story. None of the parts were particularly happy and seeing how people lived and chose to stay in some cases killed me.
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