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I like how you explain everything. The only thing I really noticed was that all the answers were the same before half time and were the opposite answer after the half time.  Students migth figure that out and stop reading.  You might want to mix up a few of the slides.  

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An excellent introduction to reading Shakespeare; as someone who always ended up watching the BBC plays from the 60's (I'd still recommend it though) instead of just reading through the dense, Shakesperian texts, I wish I'd had this in school. This Kiosk does a great job of gently walking the student through the skills it takes to read and (more importnantly) understanding The Bard. A particularly helpful part of this PowerPoint is that Mr. Poage helps the reader stay appraised of how far along they are. Much like reading Hamlet in one sitting, PowerPoints with no sense of length can seem interminable, even if they are not, so Kudos for that. One last thing, the conversational tone of this activity is fantastic, giving the impression that one is working with the author.

Nice work.  The resouces that you included will be helpful for students.  I can see the students having fun answering the questions about Julius Caesar.  

Leonard,

I think you did a great job of creating your StAIR on Julius Caesar. I really liked the resources that you included on how to understand Shakespeare.  You did a good job of giving the learner a good foundation of how to understand the overall story and how to understand the style of writing. I think that the direct instructional strategy is a good one for this type of topic. The design of the presentation is nice and pleasing to the eye.

If there is one thing I could point out that would make this StAIR a better educational tool is to not have all of the same answers for each section. I think that if you changed it up and made it more challenging it would make the learner think instead of just choosing an answer.

Thanks,

Dale

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