The second seminar- Elizabeth Kim

As students stepped in to the classroom, they sat in their assigned seats and got out the notes they have researched for the passed days. Today was the day we had to do our second seminar. A seminar is discussing about some of the main topics we have researched for immersion. Before doing the discussion or the seminar, Mr. Armstrong handed out the same handout with the reflection in the back. It was the space we wrote about our ideas, thought and later our grade(in our opinion). For the quiet students, it was a difficult assignment because there were many outgoing people who were comfortable speaking to the class without raising their hands up. The starting of our seminar was rough; no one talked for the past 1 minutes and then Walter began to talk about the joint-stock company.The main ideas we have discussed today was the success and failures of the joint-stock company, John Smith, Nathaniel Beacon and the various states. There were so many arguments, and strong reasoning that I learned a lot from today’s discussion. I personally thought that our class was good at both listening and talking about the topic. We sometimes got out of the main topic but most of the time; we were on topic and showed respect to other people while they were talking. When everyone stopped talking, Mr. Armstrong helped our class by asking various questions that sometimes were hard to answer.
Even though all of the students had a good argument or information they shared, if I had to point out someone who had tried hard, I’ll say that it was Andrew and Gloria. I think that Gloria tried hard today and showed great improvement. And Andrew had unique ideas that made many people think about it. Andrew made many side conversations that made people laugh. I think that many people did better than last time and since it was the only 2nd time doing the seminar, I think we did well.