So not much on the home front. I had Final drafts due today for their first essay (Narrative). That turned out to be an interesting first ten minutes of class with about 5 students questioning me if it was the actual due date and not Wednesday. I was so not wanting to deal with their trying to pull a fast one on me.
"Reese" was not in class today, maybe because she was putting some finishing touches on her "A paper"! I can only imagine what kind of excuse I will get from her on Wednesday. But, I am sure it will be a winner and noteworthy enough to mention at the next meeting.
We worked on the Eighner essay "On Dumpster Diving" today in class and that was quite interesting. To my complete surprise, they really enjoyed it. Our class discussion lasted about 40 minutes with the majority of the students completely engaged in discussion. Good fun!!
I am trying to put together my class activity for tomorrow: Ethos, Logos, & Pathos. I have decided that I am going to place the students into teams (Team Logos, Team Pathos, Team Ethos) and then we can approach one of the essays in a rhetorical analysis because, in all honesty, they all seem so confused for Monday's in-class essay on the Rhetorical Analysis. Oh, and sidenote here: when I mentioned this activity to the class yesterday, one of my slacker students (yes, the one who questioned the actual due date of the Narrative Essay whilst sucking down a Frappachino) said (sarcastically), "This whole thing sounds so high school." Ugh!
Pray for me.
