Small circle

The children were located in their classroom at approximately 11:05 a.m. on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The children had just got back from lunch and were busy getting back to their routines. The children’s ages ranges from five to six years old. The teacher, Ms. Otts, had arranged tables of 3 children per table. Each table was using play doh as their material. The teacher gives each student one container of play doh and instructs the students to see how many circles they can make out of each container. I observed three students, whose names were Haigen, Emma, and Cohen. The teacher goes over to their table and sits down beside them. Haigen says, “Ms. Otts, I am going to have a lot more than Emma.” Emma replied, “No way, Haigen.” Cohen seemed…

Overall, I enjoyed the Circle Training - on both a practical level in regards to facilitating trainings and on a more personal level. I both appreciate and have some challenging thoughts regarding the basics of circle practices: the talking piece and the circle. I can wholeheartedly appreciate both and believe that they can help to facilitate more substantial conversations, peace making, etc. However, I also wonder how much of the belief that talking pieces and circles are essential is more of a…

one-on-one, and small group instruction. The focus learner is interested in art, in particular drawing. When he not in his room drawing, he is either playing video games or assisting his step-father with the family’s car wash business. Learning Goal (academic – stays the same across the learning segment) The focus learner will understand that all circles are similar through the application of transformation techniques (translation and dilation), by the end of the learning segment. Related…

top of two vertical stone blocks as you walk up the stairway and enter the stone circle. My memorial will not be to scale of Stonehenge but on a scale that is half the size of the actual stone henge in regards to the circumference of the circle (54ft wide). However, the shear size of the blocks that compose the circle will still be regular height (13 feet high). The blocks of stones themselves will be left alone and not comprise of any art work on them, but in the center of the stone ring…

fading light, I could make out a handful bodies huddled around the flickering of a small fire. Orange light dancing across the faces. I had a fifth of cheap 40-proof vodka shoved into my jacket. I’d stolen it from a convenience store and the bottle pressed uncomfortably into…

In my last AGPP class on December 13th I co-kept a circle with Professor Lukens. Prof. Lukens and I met twice before the circle to review the opening, questions, and closing of the circle. She had a talking piece picked out and we borrowed a piece of cloth to use as a centerpiece. Using some notes from the training I attended with Kay Pranis, I created a handout with a description of what a balanced circle looks like (i.e. getting acquainted, building relationships, addressing issues, developing…

energetic child who likes to get involved in hands-on activities. In playschool he always has a positive attitude towards learning and never hesitates to experiment outside his comfort zones for example playing with other little friends. He is a fast learner which further develops his interests in a variety of activities. However this also means that he gets tired of things rather quickly. After observing him for some time it can be concluded that his favourite activities include building…

Throughout Dave Egger’s life, he has come across many influences to inspire him in his art work, and becoming the well-known writer that he is today. Dave Egger’s wrote the Circle, to show the limitless of technology in society. While writing the Circle, one of his biggest influences were the rise of technology, people in his life, and how society is becoming unpliable from technology. Dave Egger was born on March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was an attorney and his mother was a…

personal, and as the inherent nature of technology continues to progress, this threat will only become more of a reality. Dave Eggers illustrates this pseudo-utopian world in his novel, The Circle, where his characters are dependent upon technology to the utmost degree. An analytical question would be: would the technology mentioned in The Circle be worth implementing in today’s society? Our protagonist, Mae Holland, runs us through her everyday observations and thoughts while she works at the…

The novel The Circle by Dave Eggers, is seen as a governmental operation that is corrupted through the internet in your social accounts, in which it lets everyone know your information and life beyond it. The main idea from it is its meaning of what is good or bad. With the data people receive throughout their lives on the internet like what they choose as passwords, or statements that they receive from banks, what they post online, and the health care or records they have all go into one…