My Favorite Lecture

 Steven Lingerfelt

Prof. Brady

English 102

My Favorite Lecture

 

            While working in Professor Brady’s class I was better able to connect with my peers in fishbowl than I would with a traditional lecturing structure. By allowing us to form our own opinions and contrasting them with Prof. Brady we were able to better understand what the author’s main idea was as well as understanding more complicated postmodern views of literature. My personal favorite fishbowl is from the Streetcar Named desire where we as a class went over the character traits of Blanche, Stella, and Stanley. This lecture helped me to better write about and understand the characters. Putting statements made by characters as well as symbols into different perspectives allowed me to have a greater appreciation for Tennessee Williams’ writing and how he writes himself into Blanche.

 

            Another fishbowl lecture I enjoyed was when we compared and contrasted Antigone’s characters. From that one lecture I went from just reading the story to analyzing the characters in it, as well as forming connections with real life figures which assisted with my paper. The fishbowl style of learning is also very similar to the Socratic style of lecturing which connects the style of teaching to the actual story we read, which I found interesting. Connecting students with each other is not easy but I appreciate the time spent in fishbowl which allowed me and my classmates to critically think together.