Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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bearshortyI made my writing students do some writing in class to prepare for the next paper which turned out to be a very good exercise. The next assignment will be on Slater and Turkle essays and will ask them about “authenticity” and whether technology takes away from it as Turkle claims. Should be interesting to see what they would come up with.
I need to read in Russian more because for a few chapters of “The Hobbit” I thought the word for ‘sword’ meant ‘shield’ until I realized from context that it couldn’t be the case. I ended up calling Papa to check. Head desk. I really need to read more.
In the evening I put together the last lecture for Part II of my law class – on Innocent III and Fourth Lateran Council. I pulled my “Adultery in Middle Ages” paper I wrote for a grad seminar once for some information on marriage law and I can’t believe I actually wrote it. It is pretty good and well written. Go me.
Since part of the lecture dealt with inquisition, I checked YouTube and, sure enough, it had both 'The Spanish Inquisition' clips both from Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Since the class computer has internet connection – I can so play it for my students.
Today I had to deal with student history paper bitching – apparently they should just be rewarded for “time and effort” they put into their papers (because they are apparently in kindergarden instead of college) and “writing is an art and therefore subjective” so how dare I grade on style things like topic sentences or quote explanations and other stylistic elements. She called it my ‘personal style’ since I guess I came up with the style of a history paper. This girl was pissed that someone else in the class didn’t really read the book but was able to pull quotes from our discussion section and managed to get a higher grade than her. (She got 79). When I suggested that for an example of a proper history paper (and we had a writing class and a handout on what those look like too) she should take a look at a sample A paper I put online, this girl took offence that it really would not help anyway since that other peer did better but worked less. She is driving me crazy here. And I really should stop paying attention to her and taking this personally.
For amusement: Ian McKellen's “How to change a tire” in a theatrical voice. Hee. Hee.
I need to read in Russian more because for a few chapters of “The Hobbit” I thought the word for ‘sword’ meant ‘shield’ until I realized from context that it couldn’t be the case. I ended up calling Papa to check. Head desk. I really need to read more.
In the evening I put together the last lecture for Part II of my law class – on Innocent III and Fourth Lateran Council. I pulled my “Adultery in Middle Ages” paper I wrote for a grad seminar once for some information on marriage law and I can’t believe I actually wrote it. It is pretty good and well written. Go me.
Since part of the lecture dealt with inquisition, I checked YouTube and, sure enough, it had both 'The Spanish Inquisition' clips both from Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Since the class computer has internet connection – I can so play it for my students.
Today I had to deal with student history paper bitching – apparently they should just be rewarded for “time and effort” they put into their papers (because they are apparently in kindergarden instead of college) and “writing is an art and therefore subjective” so how dare I grade on style things like topic sentences or quote explanations and other stylistic elements. She called it my ‘personal style’ since I guess I came up with the style of a history paper. This girl was pissed that someone else in the class didn’t really read the book but was able to pull quotes from our discussion section and managed to get a higher grade than her. (She got 79). When I suggested that for an example of a proper history paper (and we had a writing class and a handout on what those look like too) she should take a look at a sample A paper I put online, this girl took offence that it really would not help anyway since that other peer did better but worked less. She is driving me crazy here. And I really should stop paying attention to her and taking this personally.
For amusement: Ian McKellen's “How to change a tire” in a theatrical voice. Hee. Hee.