Harvest 2

Today was indeed a good day to harvest.

My students talked for twenty minutes, and my part as moderator went more smoothly than I expected. The timing was my concern: 8 minutes to talk about a poem, 2 minutes to respond to the moderator's questions, 10 minutes to discuss one of two other major works with the moderator. Every student came within 30 seconds of these time markers and ended right at 20 or 20 1/2 minutes, and the best part is that the ideas flowed naturally. I am so pleased for my students and this good start to orals week. I admit that the most rewarding part for me was not the precision timing but to hear from each of them some original interpretation that went beyond what we said in class.