Today in class is a great example of how a teacher supported us thinking deeply about a text. We were studying The Black Death, and we read primary sources from a reader that helped me read first hand accounts of what took play in Europe from 1347-1350. The professor had us dive into the text and pull out how different parts of the text changed Europe because of the bubonic and pneumonic plague. It really made you look at the fine details that showed the how Europe really did change dramatically. We then made connections of how Europe change from what it was then to what I know it is today. It really made me dive into the sources. So connections were made. Diving into the reader also helped me generate questions. I began to ask the why to myself while others ask it directly to the professor. The professor had us answer our own questions by reading deeper into the text to find the answers. He was just a road map to our answers. I also made inferences about The Black Death by reading the text. So things like, rats came and had fleas, so then that had to spread to the people someway or another. Then it had to be the reason the people died. We started studying something basic and built up to extreme by inferring what would happen. We have to write a paper using the text, and so as a class today we actually synthesize what took place in Europe, and we organized ideas that help lead to us bringing meaning to the text to help us write stronger papers. We also made connections by looking at different primary sources within the text to compare what was happening throughout different parts of the world, and how the Black Death had the same affect on people everywhere.

The professor help me comprehend what was being read by helping me draw questions and then helping us and me find the answers throughout the sources. He helped us connect points, and with all the discussion today we received information and comprehension to what was important and how we can write a strong paper which is due soon.

Buehl and my professor seemed to be on the same page of how to read text, and what should be taught and take place when reading a text. I felt as I read Buehl that I was back in my class today studying the Black Death because most of what Buehl taught was present in my class. I made connections, generated questions, made inferences, synthesize, and more. I have learned through the process I read from Buehl and seeing it in class to help me solidify what the Black Death was, and how it had a changing impact on Europe and different parts of the world. The primary sources also help me draw conclusions and tie in connections to help me comprehend. My professor seriously does well, and that is why I continually take his classes.

I will take from my professor how to dive into discussion, and to ask questions that help students generate questions so they will learn. Then we will answer questions with the text. I will also try to make connection with the method of something like, "if this happened then what would be the result?" I would like to help them make connections because when you do so it seems like the subject become funner to study and students will be able to learn because ideas will start to click.