I actually found today in class to be quite enjoyable. At least with my group's presentation anyways. I'm sure that everyone else in class would have other things to say about our 40 minute long presentation, but I found it really interesting to dive that deeply into the topic of Naturalism. None of us knew exactly what the others were doing or had researched, therefore it was very cool to be able to hear Naturalism from 4 very different viewpoints, at least for me, being in the group. Jungsoo's whole speech about how Naturalism was derived from the Industrial Revolution and strongly influenced by Marx, Darwin and Freud. While I personally believe that is a stretch, I still find the viewpoint fascinating.
That was another cool thing; because we had each done independent research and developed our ideas separate from each other, we were able to point out to each other things that we had missed. Such as when Jungsoo pointed out that he strongly disbelieved that Beethoven was a naturalistic composer. And yet surprisingly, none of us contradicted each other during the presentations, which was great. I personally can't say much for the second report, as I was definitely into the word search that Lydia gave us :) Overall, I found this to be an excellent project, and hope that we are able to do more similar to this before the year is over. And by allowing us to pick groups, we subconsciously aligned ourselves by level of work. My group for example, chose to do some very rigorous work and thrived.
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