Workshopping

Well, Tuesday went well. I had them bring in the main point of each article, so they had them all together, and the list of groups they had decided on along with which authors they put into each group. Then they made sure that each other had the main points right and that the groups/authors made sense. I went around to each group and answered questions to guide them on organization.

That all seemed productive and useful to them, but I told them to bring in 4 pages on one of the groups/themes they had chosen so that we could work on the organization within one group and that did not work as well.

Each class only had about 11 or 12 people show up, but part of that could have been the snow. Of those that showed, only 4 or 5 brought any writing to workshop. I told the rest that if they didn't have anything to work on, then it was pointless for them to be there.

Did either of you have large groups of students just fail to show up on the workshopping days with anything to work on? The ones who came and didn't have anything didn't seem like they didn't know they were supposed to bring something, they just didn't do it.