Pneumonic sounds like pneumonia to me...

I decided on a very general approach to this. Mostly I'm focused on lecture and the general set-up of our classroom. I did cheat and compare our classroom to different classroom settings I have been in.
The speaking Pneumonic:
Setting: a school, an organized classroom with a focal point at the board, a desk is appointed at the front for the teacher and desks are aligned for students facing the teacher's desk
Participants: Teacher: person with "the power," generally always found at the forefront of the classroom, the one responsible for imparting knowledge (teaching!), leads direction of class/discussion
Students: the larger body of participants in the group, it's important compare the difference between our classroom and the lecture halls present in large universities
Ends: Education, students should learn something and gain more knowledge/experience that will hopefully further student in life and give said student more perspective in/to the world around him/her
Act: Generally the teacher and students meet in classroom, teacher leads the class in lecture and discussion; Students answer/ask questions; sometimes group activity will occur
Key: Formal at times highlighted with more lighthearted moments; when smaller group discussions occur among the students the tone is more casual and les restricted
Instrumentalities: oral
Norms of Interaction: students are quiet while the teacher speaks, students respond to "question cues" and generally will ask questions if something is not understood, student/teacher interaction is expected
Genre: educational lecture

I originally thought that this assignment was going to be extremely difficult, so I put it off for as long as I could. When I mentioned earlier that I cheated and compared our classroom situation to others, I wasn't fibbing. When I was a younger, I attended a Montessori-style school. A Montessori school is a school in which the children--students--study at different sections and move along at their own pace. In high school I was a student in a very small Latin program. The majority of my classes consisted of, at most, ten students and the teacher had a very different approach to teaching than any other teacher I had. Even though he--Dr. Kandel--was the one with the power to assign our grades, his classroom was run in a very relaxed matter. It was almost as if we were equals.
Getting back to the subject at hand, my "interesting point" is more of an inquiry: Does the set up of our classroom deter the education that is supposed to take place. When I compare our classroom to others, it is clearly evident that there is, in most students, a stress in the classroom to get the A and do well. I will interject here that Tiffany is a very relaxed teacher that keeps our classroom focused on actual learning, but even the best of teachers can't eliminate that feeling. A leader is needed in any type of group activity to keep everyone on topic, but the formal "classroom" atmosphere is constricting and can be at times oppressive.

I will concede that it was very hard for me to stay on the topic of our class alone, but this was all I could come up with. :)

Ms. Bethaknee