It’s the Little Things
This week, we spent a whole class period analyzing a five minute video clip. When watching the video clip from Moonlight of the boy learning to swim, the second thing I noted in my WNB after ‘informal clothing’ was ‘father/son.’ After discussing with the class, I ended up changing it to ‘father/son relationship .’ This slight difference mattered a lot to me when Miss Feldkamp first questioned a student for evidence of how it is known that it is exactly a father and son, as in a blood or legal relationship, being depicted. It could be mentorship after all, or friends, or an uncle, or even strangers for all we know. And once she asks this I realize I don’t know. After all, the main interaction between the two is the man teaching the boy to swim. There is technically zero evidence of them being a father and son, but nearly everyone in class had assumed the same thing. Realizing how quickly assumptions are made in the mind, which later proved more complex as the discussion shifted ...