Saturday, March 3, 2012
Mar. 3rd, 2012 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyDid some grading this morning and afternoon. Mostly midterms for writing class and the hagiography response papers for the “Sex, Power, and Identity class.” After grading half of the hagiography papers I decided that I’m going to make my students rewrite them for after Spring Break. The assignment question asked them to pick a biography written before 1300 – so mostly a hagiography or life of a saint - and analyze it in terms of medieval gender norms. I even listed questions they could answer right on the assignment sheet. And half the students just did the summary of the saint’s life and stories. Analyze not summarize is such a foreign concept to them. I think making them rewrite might make them learn something – at least I hope so.
Bear picked me up around 5 since tomorrow is his Grandmother’s 95th birthday party so I was going to his place for about 24 hours. We stopped by the Russian store and I got some deserts like chocolate covered cheesecake type bars and hamantaschen and things.
It was great to discover that “8: A Play about the flight for Marriage Equality” was live on YouTube at 10:45, so I watched that. It was really really good.
And because I stayed up late watching it, I ended up going to sleep at 1:30 because after the play, I was writing for another hour – History Big Bang will not defeat me even if it won’t be my best writing. I’m writing about a chapter a night since 75% of rough draft is due March 8. It will be about 12K, not that bad. Next week is Folder Review week and, of course, this is due too – I won’t sleep much.
Bear picked me up around 5 since tomorrow is his Grandmother’s 95th birthday party so I was going to his place for about 24 hours. We stopped by the Russian store and I got some deserts like chocolate covered cheesecake type bars and hamantaschen and things.
It was great to discover that “8: A Play about the flight for Marriage Equality” was live on YouTube at 10:45, so I watched that. It was really really good.
And because I stayed up late watching it, I ended up going to sleep at 1:30 because after the play, I was writing for another hour – History Big Bang will not defeat me even if it won’t be my best writing. I’m writing about a chapter a night since 75% of rough draft is due March 8. It will be about 12K, not that bad. Next week is Folder Review week and, of course, this is due too – I won’t sleep much.