Good lord. I’m trying to put all my assignment dates for the last few weeks of the semester into one revised syllabus to e-mail the students, and I can barely keep track of them. Executive functioning is taking a big hit right now! Simplify, simplify — if it’s hard for me, it’s even harder for […]
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(shared in case it’s of interest to teachers) Mutual Aid Final Project This option would take the place of the final paper. The first step is for the entire class; steps 2 and 3 are if you want to do this instead of writing a final paper for the course. ***** Week 1 (April 13
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I’m feeling a little bummed that I didn’t plan much of anything for my kids for Easter — they have chocolate bunnies for tomorrow and an egg dye kit, and that’s about it. We usually do a big party Easter brunch with an egg hunt with lots of other friends’ kids, and I think Anand
(for my neighbors, posted on our little free library, but here just in case people are more likely to see it here) “The Easter Bunny has visited our block! The bunny has brought eggs with tiny toys suitable for small children (no candy, sorry), and would love it if kids would take some home with
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Can I hold a Zoom class when my computer suddenly starts freaking out and sending me Zoom error messages every five minutes and I can’t hear my students’ questions? It turns out that yes, I can, they can type in the chat window and it works, but it is tiring and less fun. On the
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Pandemic Sunset at the Grocery Store, 180. I haven’t been to a grocery store in….a month? I think a full month now. I was hit by an intense craving for fruit and veggies and cheese, and I’d had to go out to drop off cut elastics for masks, so I put on my mask and
A friend posted this, and it made me feel better, and I don’t think she’d mind if I shared this: “[My husband] was to leave for NYC today–he was assigned to Bellevue where he did his residency–but we just heard that they have all the healthcare volunteers they need right now (over 20,000 people volunteered
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Did a Zoom class, talked through Lisa Bradley, “Una Canción de Keys,” (http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/una-cancin-de-keys/) and Sabrina Vourvoulias, La Gorda and the City of Silver, (http://mithilareview.com/vourvoulias_01_17/ ), and it went pretty well, I think. Managed to explicate some interesting elements of both pieces, connect to other readings and literary context, etc. Only two of the six students who
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Well, I recorded a teaching video today, for my 100-level class. These are a mix of students, but a lot of freshman, in a class that’s geared towards non-majors, so many of them aren’t used to doing a lot of literary analysis. I’m not going to do videos for every assignment, and I’m not going
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Took an hour to sew masks for the four of us, so that we can go on walks still; we don’t feel like it’s socially responsible of us to go out beyond the boundaries of our yard otherwise, given that we live in a pretty crowded urban environment. Kevin would be perfectly content to stay
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