Native Son Reflection

For my teaching reflection I was paired up with Chase Braitenbach. We were assigned to lead the class in a discussion over the passage, Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin. When planning for our teach we realized that we need three main sections. We had our FFW, split group discussions and overall class discussions. Each section played a big part in our discussions overall with the class. For our FFW, we asked the question, “Write about a memory of pain that you have suffered through on a day to day basis, and write how that has come to define your being &/or reactions? We decided to start with a focus free write question, that was so sentimental, to transport the audience into the same emotions the main character could have been experiencing.
This style of teaching forces the students to work together and to find many approaches to the question that they never would have thought of. Lastly was the overall group discussion. The overall group discussion allowed the whole class to delve into the reading even more. We as a class were able to realize why the reader choose to use certain stylistic choices, and how these stylistic choices helped us to find the overall message of the passage. Some examples is when Chase and I prompted the questions, “Why does James Baldwin use Racism as a theme in a lot of his essays, and how does it show in this passage specifically? James Baldwin represented good writing through his in depth writing. Through his writing he was able to instill emotions into the reader. This skill is shown very effective especially scene in his stories surrounding racism. If I could have changed anything from our presentation it would have been the