The Iron Heel Group Response

What each of my group members decided to orchestrate for our Iron Heel presentation was a trivia game that would ignite the class’s interaction with the text. Our group also decided to use the trivia game idea to achieve a new strategy and a different technique from what the other group members have done in relating the novel to our class discussions. Each of our group members were designated with a certain task to cultivate two to three question that could be used for the trivia game. My task was to come up with three questions that compare and contrast London’s Iron Heel to the previous three novels we have so far read in class.
In our brainstorming for this project our group met several times to discuss how this presentation could be handled. During those encounters we conversed and debated our questions to see which ones needed to be worked on and which ones were successful. I was able to offer input and constructive criticism to the questions my fellow group members had concocted. I especially paid close attention to the wording in which the questions were asked so that they become easy enough to understand for the class.
One of my group members, in our discussion of what film clips to use, suggested using Gangs of New York in out connection with London’s politically and socially conscious driven novel. I have the film and so I offered to review it to see what scenes connect with the novel’s theme. There were several depictions of the proletariat rising against the oligarchy, but our group had decided that the two films that were previously suggested would be utilized instead.