Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Oscar nominations! I forgot about them but EW reminded me two minutes before they started and allowed me to watch nominations live on the Internet. I do like technology. I haven’t seen any of the nominated movies this year. At all. Which is not too surprising but usually I watched one or two. I want to see the “The Help” and the “The Artist” but not really others. Well, I did see “War Horse” as a play so at least I know the plot.

I spent my day focused on my writing class and evening on my history lecture. I finished most of the Close Reading assignment comments and then led the discussion on our first reading. we really went through two paragraphs in class to see how the author complicates his argument. I really hope that will help the students to complicate their work – I don’t expect too much.

In the evening I put together my Consequences of Reformation lecture, mostly using old lectures. I really have too much information and I kept narrowing it all down and I should probably narrow more as I teach. I made the Powerpoint while listening to the State of the Union. Now I just have to read the two primary sources I assigned them and prepare some questions and then I will be fully ready for tomorrow.

( State of the Union )