Week 3: Final Responsibilities

 For this last week, most students are spending time working on their final projects, so aside from the fiction workshop the TAs and I didn't have too many responsibilities. However, the students did wrap up their reading of The Fifth Season, and we led a class wide discussion on the book overall. Many people seemed to have neutral to negative opinions of the book, with only a few positives. Through discussion, we were able to key everyone in to the themes and techniques they should take away from. Although this is a very valuable text to read, we decided that it is probably a little to complex for a class like this to read, especially considering there are freshmen in the class.

One other responsibility we had was going out to buy art supplies for the students' final projects. Although this was pretty easy compared to our other tasks, it was still a nice exercise in figuring out what each student needs to be set with their projects, and then finding all of those supplies. We also helped the students with their art projects whenever we could.

Our final responsibility this week was just generally checking in and making sure everyone felt comfortable and focused with their projects. My general process for this was stopping by a student and asking what they were doing. After they described the general idea of their project, I would probe into why they wanted to do the project by asking different supportive questions about their design choices. I wasn't sure how to do this at first, but Zack helped me quite a bit on this area. Overall, this last week was quite chill!

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