Reflection on Attendance Poll Questions

I thought that these were a really good idea. I have never had a teacher do anything like this and I thought that it helped me get to know the other people in the class. Not only that, it was also a lot more interesting than just saying “here”. I would not have liked if you had made one of the attendance poll questions a reading quiz. I think that it would have been too hard to come up with twenty different answers to the question.
These questions were sometimes about some pretty obscure subjects. I liked them because they dealt with subjects that normally would not come up within the course of a normal conversation. For instance a recent one that I liked was “What kind of criminal would you be?” I said that I would like to be like Leonardo DiCaprio playing Frank Abagnale, Jr. in Catch Me If You Can. I think that it would be really great to get all that money from the forged checks and then fly around the world for free without any training as a pilot. Of course, the chance of getting arrested is pretty high, but if I wouldn’t mind if Tom Hanks arrested me. The range that was given in the class was pretty wide, but I was surprised that no one mentioned being a pirate. I loved The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, but being a pirate never crossed my mind.
I am glad that the attendance poll question was never a reading quiz because it probably would have been too difficult to think of twenty different answers to the same question. I think that it is good to keep the poll questions fun, so it is something to look forward to right at the beginning of class.
When you told us about the origin of the attendance poll, I don’t think any of us would have imagined it. That was a good idea to determine if there were any other criminals in your class. Some of the responses to that first question, “Why should I not be afraid of you?” were pretty fascinating. I would have liked to hear the answers if that question was asked in this class. It is interesting, though, that that experience gave you the idea to do attendance poll questions every day for all your classes.
Overall, I thought that the attendance poll question was an excellent idea. I think that everything about, from the origins to the randomness of the questions is very interesting. I think, though, that making the attendance poll question would ruin the concept. I would definitely recommend keeping these attendance poll questions for future classes.