Sadara,
You seemed very calm and comfortable in your own environment facilitating this discussion with your students. I was surprised at how long your students were willing to debate the time of day because of the light, a simple factor that got them thinking about artistic choices. Your students were very comfortable agreeing or disagreeing with each other and did so respectfully. There are a few students who kept commenting, noticing more details. For a moment in your video you comfortably ask if anyone else would speak other than the same students, saying not to be afraid. Another possibility is to say that you would like to hear from someone who hasn't talked yet today. It was nice to see that one student in particular was thinking as a stage two viewer noticing the artistic choice to have the pale skin of the woman right next to the dark shadow, making her the focal point. Also, I wouldn't worry about having to stop and talk to the student who was disrupting. He isn't in the class and you had to explain something special was going on and that he should be silent. No big deal, it had to be done! It was good that you apologized to the speaker for a moment to take a break to do that, then continued on like normal. I agree that this image was an appropriate choice for your class. It had concrete observable things for your students to make observations about, left ambiguity for plenty of agreeing/disagreeing, and still had opportunities for people to start considering artistic choices. Well done!
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