Class Warfare

This is something I might find a good way to try once I have a class of my own to abuse with my inane ideas.

When you read something there are impossibly many ties in all over the world. I'd imagine as a teacher teaching a novel it might seems really tough to pick one critical angle to take on a work. So maybe for one class session you assign everybody a different reading and make them play the role of that position on a book for that day.

An obvious problem is that not everyone has the same source material. But that is a problem to shifts the focus of its work onto the student to read, comprehend and represent well the paper they're reading. (Again, this might be a try once a semester type of thing, not necessarily fruitful for basic class discussion.)

Another issue is the fact that some of the arguments probably are two various to meet up in fruitful discussion. You aren't necessarily going to get much value by pitting a socioeconomic reading against a reading that is more about tracking a system of images through the novel. But also you might. You never know. And with enough voices in a class their is opportunity for some pairings not to be terribly fruitful while still having a lot of interesting fruit on the table.

Just seems this might very well teach kiddies about really understanding the argument of a paper. And also the myriad possibilities of looking at books. And really not closing off the possibilities. Instead showing that there is too much and learning how to still get value out of that over abundance.

Oh ye little experiments. I can't wait.