All my fellas tip your hats with it
Thank you for an interesting and informative presentation on smallpox. You covered the essential material well and brought in some additional material relevant to this topic that added interest. The slides were attractive and the images enhanced the presentation. The slides at the beginning used minimal text in bullet lists, but the slides toward the end were more wordy than they needed to be. Students should get the full text from hearing you and later from reading the notes. You both did a good job with he oral presentation, speaking clearly and articulating well without constant reference to notes and the screen. This indicated you prepared well and practiced.
(*****), you did an excellent job on your part of the presentation covering your topics concisely and with appropriate depth. Unfortunately, they way you both chose to distribute the topics, Katie ended up with topics of more substance in terms of biological content. That led to a sense of imbalance. As Katie wrapped up her section, I wrote in my notes, “What will Meg do?” meaning I wasn’t sure what was left to cover.
Meg, you did cover important material with diagnosis, treatment, and vaccines and then brought up more general interest items on biowarfare and Hollywood’s misrepresentation. However, I found that some of this information was somewhat superficial and repetitive. It was good of you to try to involve the audience, but it didn’t come off too well. I like the idea of using the movies’ version of the disease to essentially review the important points. However, you probably spent more time on that slide than necessary given that the talk had run over time.
The format for references on the literature cited page is correct. However, you did not use the correct form for the in-text citations nor did you include citations in-text for all your references.
Meg, I have assigned a grade of B or 85 for your work.
Dr. L…
I would like to note here that I have seen several professional slides where there is a block of text and the speaker summerizes it, which is exactly what I did. I also didn't have much choice in the portion of the presentation that I had-- I tried to beef it up but it didn't work. It also wasn't my fault that the class was COMPLETELY unresponsive. I guess I'm just used to intelligent people.
I of course felt the need to justify myself, so I sent him an e-mail back saying, "You know, this is what I was trying to do..."
Plus, I loved my partner, but she really did commandeer the project. I also had no idea that the talk had run over since we were second and it wasn't time for class to go yet.
Maybe it's petty of me to be irritated by this, but I really am. I deserved a better grade on that project and I know that my partner got an A just like she fucking always does. Remind me not to take Lindquester again, he doesn't like me.
In other news, our rush chair is completely driving the house in to the ground. Awesome!
Finals are going to be hectic, but not too bad, I guess. Big still wants to talk to me about a Lit major, but that doesn't mean anything positive. I should go in, though, because I still need to get in to one of his senior sem classes.
I'm also completely fascinated by the musical Parade, which I'd heard of by name but not by topic. Imagine my surprise as an Atlantan when the little girl sings, "I'm Mary, Mary Phagan."
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For those of you who didn't grow up in Georgia, the
So Mary Phagan, an Irish factory girl, was found raped and beaten to death in the basement of the factory she worked at... under Leo Frank. Even though a more likely culprit (and people who do this for a living look back and go, "Any reason they didn't convict Conley?") was an escaped-from-a-chain-gang black man, the South rose to the occasion to prove that they hate a Yankee Jew more than a fugitive black man....
Well, it was one of the biggest shames in Atlanta's history-- I mean bigger than the second klan being born at Stone Mountain.