Posted in Books, Education on May 31st, 2007 24 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 31/28 (Change = +1)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 31/25 (Change = -1)
It seems there’s a bit of a controversy burning in Kansas City: Tom Wayne, the man who’s been running Prospero’s Books for the past ten years is sick and tired of the apathy being shown by [...]
Posted in Books, Teaching on May 29th, 2007 23 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 30/28 (Change = None)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 32/25 (Change = None)
I decided to give myself a break in class planning, so I put the 301 class aside for a few days and focused on the 100 class.
I’ve taught 100 many times including several summer sessions, so [...]
Posted in Books, College, Education, English, Grammar, Punctuation, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 27th, 2007 69 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 30/28 (Change = +1)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 32/25 (Change = -1)
It appears my worries regarding whether or not my summer classes were going to fill are over. With more than two weeks remaining before the session begins, both of the courses I’m teaching are full, [...]
Posted in College, Education, English, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 24th, 2007 24 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 29/28 (Change = +10)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 33/25 (Change = +3)
Summer school is an odd beast. It’s a period during which an eighteen-week semester is crammed into six-weeks’ time. That means each day in summer session is equivalent to about three-days’ of class, or [...]
Posted in Books, Education, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 22nd, 2007 27 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 24/28 (Change = +8)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 31/25 (Change = +12)
Summer session begins three weeks from today, and already I have a waiting list in my literature class. I don’t want to jinx things, but this is very good news.
In other good news, a box of [...]
Posted in College, English, Students, Teaching on May 20th, 2007 26 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 19/28 (-1)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 18/25 (+2)
The end has now officially come and gone: the finals are over, my papers are done, and grades have been entered.
I began the semester with two full rosters (25 student per class) plus twenty students on each waiting list. [...]
Posted in Students, Teaching on May 17th, 2007 30 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 20/28 (+1)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 16/25 (+1)
Semesters are an odd thing: they begin with a flurry of excitement and confusion and unbelievable busywork. From there, they shift into a regular—if grueling—pace. Near the end, the flurry is renewed: only this time, it’s a flurry [...]
Posted in Education on May 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 19/28
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 15/25
I have a routine of sorts when I go in to town to teach, and a major part of it is the latte I treat myself to on my way to the office.
This is a throwback to my endless days as a [...]
Posted in College, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 14th, 2007 26 Comments »
I have been carefully monitoring my summer session enrollment numbers in hopes that I am:
A. Going to be working;
B. Going to be teaching a literature class;
C. All of the above.
The good news is that summer-session registration is still in its early stages.
The better news is that as of today, I have 13 students (of [...]
Posted in Argument, Education, Students, Teaching on May 12th, 2007 24 Comments »
Thursday night, while doing a variety of household things, I had the news on in the background, and I stopped to listen to a story about twelve grade-school teachers who have been giving extra help to students.
Friday, try as I might, I couldn’t find the story anywhere online. Of course, I didn’t listen carefully [...]