Frustration
For some unknown reason, my Internet here at the motel where I stay during the school week is sooooooo slow tonight… it is trying my patience… and then some.
Not that I have a lot of that to begin with… patience, that is!
Fortunately, I managed to get most everything done that I needed to get done already for this week’s classes, so I am tolerating it a little better than I would otherwise be inclined to (although it is irking me that I have not been able to return my Entrecard drops. I have been trying, honest!!!) Do want to spend a bit of time coming up with something different to do re: my seminars for the course I TA this week. We’ve been doing poetry every week so far …. and this is our second week on Yeats… discussing the poems we read is wearing thin, especially since a lot of my students are just not that into poetry.
Plus, their first essay is due this week, and because of that, I did not require that they write a journal entry about this week’s poems … which means that some of them will not even have read them, I’m guessing. An activity would be good 
A couple more weeks and then we will move onto novels and short stories. I’m looking forward to it …and I am sure that they are too.
Anyway … I haven’t yet figured out exactly WHAT I can do that is different for this week… but will come up with something.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm e
Sounds like it’s time to mix things up a bit. I’m with you.