Peter CO #1

            On Thursday 9 March, I observed Victoria Davis’ group 3B reading class.  The topic she introduced was the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing. The instructor, before lecturing on the difference, invited her students to guess at it themselves, and they were successful at doing so. Before she began the active lesson, she went over ways of beginning a summary and the general parts of an essay (i.e., a beginning, body, and conclusion). The active lesson had students reading, analyzing, and summarizing a paper. Victoria left some notes on the board for the students to refer to. During the activity, she played relaxing music. At the end of class, the students turned in their work. I did not get a look at the rubric, but Victoria said that she would consider comprehension most of all when evaluating the work. There was more time given to students for writing; it did not take long for the pre-lesson activity.