tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post5662865451042443474..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: RejiggeringFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-48341180998061277032013-02-02T13:23:29.358-05:002013-02-02T13:23:29.358-05:00Anon:
You're right. I shouldn't have fram...Anon:<br /><br />You're right. I shouldn't have framed the discussion of the two classes that way. I certainly didn't mean it to sound like a criticism of my Donne students. It was a weaker class for a lot of reasons, including the fact that it simply wasn't as well- or as coherently-designed, and that's all on me.<br /><br />What would have been more productive to say is that that class happened to have more students in their first semester of the M.A. program; more students who had never analyzed poetry in formal, technical terms; and more students with little to no prior exposure to Renaissance literature. They weren't <i>bad students</i> (they worked hard, and some wound up doing excellent work), but the class really wasn't pitched at the right level for their needs at that stage of their careers. <br /><br />I know what a typical undergraduate class can do, and I know how to pitch the material to reach as many students as possible. But I'm still figuring out what a typical M.A. class looks like and what they need from the class and from me as their instructor. Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-8368777850252862512013-02-02T12:15:19.641-05:002013-02-02T12:15:19.641-05:00"On the other hand, my Donne grad class the f..."On the other hand, my Donne grad class the following semester was much weaker"<br /><br />As a recent Ph.D. who still remembers the fear of humiliation that the grad seminar entails, I sympathize with any students who might be made self-conscious by your reference to a weaker Donne class. It's common practice, but a bad idea, to make negative blanket comments about groups of students over the internet, whether on blogs or on facebook, where the complaint about students (their writing in particular) is a genre unto itself. <br /><br />I apologize for posting anonymously, but I'm on the job market and trying hard to manage my online persona. In general I'm a fan of this blog, which is helpful instruction in professionalization--I'd love to see you someday publish it as a memior-cum-professionalization manual.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-82065478520908763832013-01-27T16:42:26.659-05:002013-01-27T16:42:26.659-05:00CPP:
Hell, but no circles of hell. And one bad-as...CPP:<br /><br />Hell, but no circles of hell. And one bad-ass Satan.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-26808368628298001862013-01-23T22:31:27.200-05:002013-01-23T22:31:27.200-05:00Milton is that shizznitte with the circles of hell...Milton is that shizznitte with the circles of hell and all that jazze, right?Comrade Physioprofhttp://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprofnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-67886318433545987322013-01-23T08:38:56.956-05:002013-01-23T08:38:56.956-05:00I'm interested to see how it works out. Since ...I'm interested to see how it works out. Since I'm teaching a very different population of students than the last time I taught Shakespeare, and using a different book, I'm right there with you. I don't know what they can handle, and I'm setting the bar high. Worst case scenario is that I lecture all semester. Good luck. Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.com