My summer course starts tomorrow morning, and I am LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. Really. I doubt anyone else is, but I am. It's just Literary Genres, but I tried to pick the most fun stuff in the anthology, assigned as little homework as possible, and am set on teaching these people how to do this stuff. Gotta own it. Pussying in. I honestly am best at ( Read more... )

This is turning out to be a really interesting experience. Eye-opening, in fact. It was strange to walk into an "interview" where basically I think they just wanted to make sure I had one head and wasn't foaming at the mouth, and then, instead of answering questions about my teaching, to sign all the paperwork. After being prepared for professional ( Read more... )

Today in my writing class I decided to work with them on freewriting/brainstorming and clustering. The students were told to come to class with at least a general idea of what they wanted to write about for their popular culture analysis papers. I modeled freewriting and brainstorming for them and then had them freewrite on the topics for 5 minutes ( Read more... )