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Response to Last Week’s Presentations

Last week Dr McDaniel suggested that we write a short response about the groups that present before we do, so I will briefly be doing that along in addition to my regular post this week.  I thought that both groups did well, which in a way makes it harder to learn anything about what we should or shouldn’t do.  Both kept fairly focused on the essential questions of the course, as I think is necessary, and both successfully incorporated the data specific to their historical figures with more general, philosophical, issues.  If I were to find a fault that we could learn from, I would say that the first group especially dealt with lengthy pauses in the discussion, and although is isn’t really something we can prepare for we should be wary of letting the conversation lapse, and we should be ready to jump in with another topic if it does.

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