Team Awesome gets Spirted Away

 When Team Aweosme got together outside of class to plan our presentation, we decided that the best way to get the class to actually participate was to break them up into small groups and go over specific "Spirted Away" related topics with them. Then after all the students had some facts, we would regroup as a class and discuss what we all had learned. This worked great in theory, though in practice I believe we overestimated their enthusiasm. However, I do feel that overall our presentation was a success.

 Joe's video clips and explanation of the Shinto religion were a great beginning. I had much enjoyed the "Return to Oz" group's explanation of the behind the scenes of the film and believe I did a great job conveying to the class the hard work I took to get Spirted Away made. After the small groups convened, I spoke first. I had planned on giving examples from my group discussion, but because only two of the five had seen the film we didn't come up with much. I feel like what I did give to the group was good, though I failed to deliver it as smoothly as I planed. I feel Jasmine, Nikole, and Joe did swimmingly in explaining their topics, and Dylan's insight rapped things quite nicely.

 If I had to do it all over aging, I don't think I would have wanted to break up into groups. I think instead I would have wanted to (assuming as we did that most of the class had not seen the film) show many short, well cued clips that corresponded with our individual points. Oh well, I had fun, liked the film we chose and my group members and would be more than willing to work with them again.