emanuelle sippy—assignment 26—what's a synonym for "prompts" ?????

I really enjoy writing and talking, so mostly, this class was a bet. 

I appreciate that we didn't have a ton of work and barely had homework. 

I appreciate that you also don't like the grading scale of our school. 

I appreciate that much of the time in your classroom, we were teaching and learning from each other—it wasn't just a one way exchange between you and students but a recognition that students would learn from other students and that as much as you were there to teach us, you also knew there were things we could teach you. 

I appreciate that you don't shy away from conversations and topics that others deem "political." News flash, people: everything is political. Wearing a mask is political. 

I loved the socratic seminars and wish we had done more of them and done them earlier on in the year. I also think we can go beyond retorical devices and into arguments in order to  have real exchanges where we question each other, ourselves, and our opinions. I think it would be cool if we got to recommend articles for socratics. Maybe even each student could pick one, and we could use them throughout the year. 

I wish the visual literacy projects were more flexible (i.e. that we could address any topic we're interested in and not just advertisement and office supplies). 

I don't mind the timed writings as much as I thought I would but do think we should spend less time grading and more time writing. 

I love writing the blogs !!!! It'd be cool if we got to write some of the prompts? For ourselves or like randomly assigned to others? One of the prompts could be to write a prompt and then the next one could be to answer one of your classmates'.  

I think there is more we can do to co-create our education, especially with a teacher that is as understanding and flexible as you are. But I recognize that in our current system, that is far from easy. 

Thanks for recognizing that we're learning from the things we do outside of school as much if not more than in school and thanks for actually asking and caring about what I was doing when I missed class :)