The Sun shines

[patrick_vecchio]

(Good magazine, good people)I'm teaching a JMC 111 section this coming semester. Every student in the class took JMC 110 from me in the spring, so I've been wondering how to make 111 distinctively different than 110 so that the students and I aren't bored into a word coma

Comments

[nodressrehersal]

Great idea and yay Sun for responding so positively.

[patrick_vecchio]

It's going to be a huge element of the class-and I only thought of it Sunday. My brain's RPMs are so slow sometimes.

[vivitalia]

What an awesome idea!

[patrick_vecchio]

Thanks, Lizz. I wish I could take credit for it, but it was Sherry's idea. She spent 33 years in education, and we frequently talk about teaching, curriculum, etc. She suggested they work on something that will have value to them outside the context of the course.

I'm also going to try contract grading in this course. To my knowledge, no one in JMC does it.

Who knows? Maybe the course will inspire a student to write a memoir like yours.