ch 4

Times have changed dramatically since I have been in school. We use to have to read a book then do a book report. It was always boring. I never enjoyed the activity. I usually tried to pick out a simply book that was approved buy the teacher just so I could get the work over with. I never could understand why the teacher always had to "approve" the book. The books were never anything I liked to read. The report was the worse. You couldn't write what you really thought about the stupid book or the activity. You automatically knew to write what the teacher wanted to hear! If you didn't your paper was an automatic F. We were never allowed to "discuss" things. Nope our generation got to sit in our desk all day without talking because lord forbid if you were caught talking the teacher would beat the hell out of you with a ruler. haha It sounds like something straight out of the 1940 decade but it wasn't. It sounds like something that "doesn't go on around here" but it did. I went to Gillette elementary and I am 38. The chapter is important because it informs teachers from older generations that there are more positive effective methods to teaching! I love the ideal of discussion groups! I love the ideal of letting children be creative and make rap songs, retelling, acting, puppet shows, ect about what they have read.