This PPT built by Carol has all the elements of a good vPQA slide show:
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1. She introduces the structure in the way in which we always establish meaning by saying “this means that”.
2. She then makes general statements using the target structure – those are the captioned slides.
3. Carol intersperses the slides with some frames from a recent movie (Les Choristes) the class was using MovieTalk to work on. So she connects the structure to the movie, keeping the class connected to the ongoing culture thread of her class.
4. On slide 12 of 13 she provides response options to a question that houses the structure, starting the invitation for speech output from the kids. (After that the Debate would be the fourth part of the slide show and would provide the second, after the response option page, invitation for speech output from the kids. See the vPQA primer for more on how the Debate fits into the general scheme of a vPQA slide show.)
If you scroll down through the slides you can see how each slide has a few more words on it than the previous one, building the lesson from simplicity to complexity, which is why I call such slide presentations taxonomies. The assumption is that, via circling and compare/contrast, each slide gives more reps to where the last slides (response options/debate) naturally lead to speech output by the kids.
Note also that, by choosing only one target for the slide show, Carol keeps things simple. We have a choice to either target one structure in any given slide presentation, or we could make one big presentation for two or three structures that we are targeting for the eventual story. It really doesn’t matter.
Note as well that Carol includes English only on the first slide. This is upon Julie’s recommendation. Somewhere in the vPQA primer she makes the point to the effect that by providing English after the first slide, we are completely defeating the purpose of the circling, by making the mind lazy in the midst of the discussion as it moves up the taxonomy to higher and higher training of the deeper mind on the structure.
I hope Carol makes some of these in Haiku Deck. The less Power Point shows we have, the safer we are in terms of the Google copyright infringement regulations.
The Problem with CI
Jeffrey Sachs was asked what the difference between people in Norway and in the U.S. was. He responded that people in Norway are happy and
