Monday, January 24, 2011

[bearshorty]

First lecture today. After giving the first lecture I get settled in the class. Today’s lecture was on Mesopotamia. I teach two sections of the same class back to back. Each class is one hour and thirty minutes long with a ten minute break in-between. I discovered that I don’t get bored giving the same lecture twice. I just get into it. And the second lecture actually goes more smoothly. I think it is also the students in the second class. There are more kids there willing to talk and ask questions and that really helps. Plus the video worked in the second class with sound and I knew the perfect place to play it because of how the first section reacted. I use this clip from Star Trek: TNG episode “Darmok” where Picard tells the story of Gilgamesh. My students were technically supposed to read some Gilgamesh for today but of course no one wanted to talk. So I played the clip as the summary of the story and then we talked about it.

House S7E10 This was a fun episode; I was laughing a lot especially at Chase and Taub’s snark. It is about time that Chase’s whoring caught up with him. House is bonding with Rachel. He makes all this effort and he is so proud of her at the end there. Aw. And Sam Adama as POTW.

Exercise: 31 min on bike – I did the expert course and I only got 16 out of 20 flags before I stopped.
Cross stitch: light blue and pale blue for little bear’s blanky.