My 9:30 class (one I’m taking, not that I’m teaching) was mysteriously vacant today, so I’ll go ahead and write now about today’s Plato classes. (Those I teach.) Now that I’m doing Tuesday-Thursday comp classes and have fewer days to teach, I compressed the entire trial of Socrates into today’s discussion. For whatever reason (can’t [...]
Well, the school year is back, and hopefully I’ll be posting here with some regularity about my two freshman comp classes and the groovy things that we discuss. Both groups (I teach two sections per semester) look promising. I did my standard opening day exercise–before I introduced myself, took roll, handed them a piece of [...]
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Well, the new school year is upon me. Tomorrow I go in for EMMA re-orientation so that I can be slightly less lost than my freshmen when they submit their papers. Then I’m going to start Sidney’s Arcadia. Wednesday I go in to help with new TA orientation, assisting bright young teachers as they learn [...]
