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Monday, May 9, 2011
May. 9th, 2011 11:11 pmOne of my Highlander stories, Holiday in the Sun, got recced. I’m all excited. I think what I like the most is reading as to why this person liked it and is recommending it. Certainly made my day.
Today is 9th of May or WWII Victory Day in Russia and all the former counties of the Soviet Union. I made sure to call my grandfather this afternoon, since he joined the Soviet Army right at the end of the war when he was eighteen. His brother died in that war at the age of 26. So today is a day to remember. When I was little, this day was a major holiday and my family and I would always go to Yama, the site of the liquidation of Minsk ghetto, where my great-grandmother and her mother died. Memory of World War II is very strong in Russian speaking countries. And no wonder, Belarus lost one in four people in that war.
Today I went to Local College early and I graded twenty four Marco Polo/Ibn Battuta papers. And I printed my final and I printed lots and lots of papers submitted online. And one of my students wants to make his own and my life difficult. He is the one who sent me a ‘rough draft’ which was really just cut and paste from plagiarism. After telling him that it was plagiarism and what he actually had to do to write the paper in his own words, he decided that he would just copy and paste from other website. But I have this magical ability to Google and find at least three websites from which he copied. Here is a clue, kid, your paper is not answering the assignment question and it doesn’t sound like you. So I had to call up the guy at Academic Honesty and submit his work and get lots of instruction. This student is on football scholarship too and this will be messy.
I actually like giving a three hour final, I got a lot of grading done.
After I got home, I went for a walk; I love this weather and then I graded the Map Quiz 2 for Section 3. One guy managed to get 9 out of 100. This is for a quiz where they got a study guide a week and a half before with all the geographical locations.
And then I finalized the book list for history classes next semester. I’m teaching this Global history class again but I want to mix up the papers so instead of Marco Polo I was choosing between Gilgamesh and Ramayana. Both would be interesting to read but I want the Gilgamesh book so that is winning. It is a translation by Stephen Mitchell. One of the best parts of teaching – free desk copies of books.
( House S7E21 )
Cross-stitch: I was stitching for longer than usual just because I’m on the deadline. So I finished terra cotta, on the giraffe. And I started orange brown. All orange brown on big bear and middle bear is done.
Today is 9th of May or WWII Victory Day in Russia and all the former counties of the Soviet Union. I made sure to call my grandfather this afternoon, since he joined the Soviet Army right at the end of the war when he was eighteen. His brother died in that war at the age of 26. So today is a day to remember. When I was little, this day was a major holiday and my family and I would always go to Yama, the site of the liquidation of Minsk ghetto, where my great-grandmother and her mother died. Memory of World War II is very strong in Russian speaking countries. And no wonder, Belarus lost one in four people in that war.
Today I went to Local College early and I graded twenty four Marco Polo/Ibn Battuta papers. And I printed my final and I printed lots and lots of papers submitted online. And one of my students wants to make his own and my life difficult. He is the one who sent me a ‘rough draft’ which was really just cut and paste from plagiarism. After telling him that it was plagiarism and what he actually had to do to write the paper in his own words, he decided that he would just copy and paste from other website. But I have this magical ability to Google and find at least three websites from which he copied. Here is a clue, kid, your paper is not answering the assignment question and it doesn’t sound like you. So I had to call up the guy at Academic Honesty and submit his work and get lots of instruction. This student is on football scholarship too and this will be messy.
I actually like giving a three hour final, I got a lot of grading done.
After I got home, I went for a walk; I love this weather and then I graded the Map Quiz 2 for Section 3. One guy managed to get 9 out of 100. This is for a quiz where they got a study guide a week and a half before with all the geographical locations.
And then I finalized the book list for history classes next semester. I’m teaching this Global history class again but I want to mix up the papers so instead of Marco Polo I was choosing between Gilgamesh and Ramayana. Both would be interesting to read but I want the Gilgamesh book so that is winning. It is a translation by Stephen Mitchell. One of the best parts of teaching – free desk copies of books.
( House S7E21 )
Cross-stitch: I was stitching for longer than usual just because I’m on the deadline. So I finished terra cotta, on the giraffe. And I started orange brown. All orange brown on big bear and middle bear is done.
