Evaluation+-+King+Arthur

In order to fulfill the requirements for being a learning being in a learning organisation, I have found out that it's time to evaluate a few classes that we've had. We? Yes, we. Don't worry, it's not my split personality speaking. We're working in course teams, and I have the pleasure of working with Kristian in two of my teams. Early April planning caught up with us, it said «King Arthur inspired work». OK... Anyway, we got started, and came up with the following class:

1. **Short lecture on the legend of King Arthur**, showing pictures of the legend in art, in later and even contemporary literature, and showing parts of films that all contain many of the elements that we recognise from «Arthurian» literature. Needless to say there were pictures of Glamdrag and Gandalf, Harry Potter and Gryffindor's sword as well as Arthur's famous Excalibur. It went well, they seemed enthusiastic enough.

Lesson learnt: pupils like lectures and pretty pictures

2. **Webtasks about Arthurian art from the Experience webpage.**

3. After this we separated the groups, one group followed Kristian for a **lecture** about one of the **literary genres inspired by this type of legend: Fantasy.**

Lesson learnt: Pupils are interested in Fantasy.

The other group went to my classroom where we talked about another legend derivate: **Romantic literature**, and **King Arthur in contemporary art, games, literature and film**. The students were then asked to write a Romantic poem that had to contain at least three of the following key words: Excalibur, Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sword, Stonehenge, King Arthur, Merlin, Camelot and so on. I ended this lesson by showing an excellent videoclip from YouTube showing Lara Croft! media type="youtube" key="fiZj2_pFnx4&hl=en" height="355" width="425" Lesson learnt: pupils fail to see the difference between Romantic poetry and romantic poetry, some of them even refuses to understand even after having it explained.

4. **Swapped groups.**

Lessons learnt: Fantasy is popular They enjoyed writing poetry but need more explanation as to what defines a poem as Romantic They need more time writing poetry and the lesson could well have been split in two only rather than three. If the worksheet on Arthurian art should be used, they need more time.