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gunma_gal

Venting, aka My Rant

Apr 19, 2011 14:02

I have two Core Humanities discussion sections. Usually, things go fairly well. Today, not so much. Frankly, my first section sucked so bad. It made me utterly irate. Their readings were relatively short, a total of 29 pages, many of those pages being less than half a page. Because of this, one would think that the students would finish the ( Read more... )

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ext_103703 April 21 2011, 06:07:08 UTC

casbah/kasbah: fortress of a North African city (or the area around the fortress) -- why it's being rocked, I'm not sure; I don't really know the rest of the words to that song (I'm pretty sure I sing gibberish for the rest of it) -- I looked this up before because I used to buy boxed couscous that was Kasbah brand.

Anyhow, as for the questions: I think I'd ask very similar questions. (I'm not sure what texts you're reading and I don't think I've read them, based on the authors and areas of criticism (what was I doing when I took that CH (nee WT) class, I wonder?

As for discussion, I hear ya. I have had a lot of 101s and 102s like that. I might employ some kind of graded discussion? I might have them turn in their notebooks/freewrites (except, ugh, I loathe carrying around student notebooks)? At any rate, I hope the rest of the semester goes much better.