Presentation in Search of a Presenter
"What about Rosa? She don't get a turn?!"

Jimmy withdraws from the reading position, turning his head away from the teachers

(frame number on image can be used to cross-reference it with the transcript: sec 112-116) 
As Jimmy completes his withdrawal, Rosa makes a circle with her hand that starts with Fred and ends with her as if to state the rule that reading is done as turns around the table

(transcript: sec. 117) 
For the second time, Rosa makes a cirlce with her hand as she declares:

"Back to Fred, back to Anna and Maria and back to me."

(transcript: sec 118-125)
Pirandello in the Classroom

On the Necessity of Collusion in the Classroom

Social Context for Ethnic Borders and School Failure

What is this Presentation About?
What is the Presentation Really About?
Frame-ing
Who is Ray McDermott? 
"Along with great promise, American culture has given education terrible problems and few conceptual tools for finding solutions. Our job is to confront current arrangements enough to do research that delivers on the promise of equality and excellence for all." 
Since I have been at Teachers College (8 weeks now) I have been told instructional stories 
about three people

1) Margaret Mead

2) Lawrence Cremin

3) Ray McDermott
1) Schools initiate inequality in the performance of different children on school tasks by self-fullfilling prophecy 

2) Given the incessant pressures on any teacher to sort the children once and for all by natural ability on the basis of performance on certain school tasks...

3) In the face of the social organization and cultural roots of the self-fulfilling prophecies that lead to school failure, the possibility of using schools as a vehicle for social change seems slim

- Ray McDermott
Pirandello in the Classroom
We have this illusion of being one person for all, of having a personality that is unique in all our acts. But it isn't true. We perceive this when, tragically perhaps, in something we do, we are as it were, suspended, caught up in the air on a kind of hook. We perceive that all of us was not in that act, and that it would be an atrocious injustice to judge us by that action alone, as if all our existence were summed up in that one deed.

Father Character 
Six Characters in Search of an Author 
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How can we understand Rosa's talk? Is she calling for a turn....simply showing she knows some rules about turn taking in rounds, or as we suspect, arranging to not read while, nonetheless, appearing to be part of the group.

Ray McDermott
Back to Fred, then back to me. No. Back to Fred, back to Anna, and back to Fred and Maria and back to me.
- Rosa,  Applied DeConstructionist
A Character 
What about Rosa (screaming) 
sh......she don't get a turn
- Child 4 
An Actor