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sanpaku_backupUp in Maine for the next few days. I had days of nonstop work and overnight final exam grading followed by a 7 hour long drive yesterday, but we made it. I don't know how this will all go. Signs are mixed. It could be a lot better than we thought, or it could be a lot worse. In any event, it is nice to be in a place where it is actually warm and sunny, approximately what it should be like at this time of year...
Also, I was feeling horrible about the course after one guy told me he "never connected" with it because it was "more like philosophy than history" and he wanted to memorize facts and dates. In the context of hoping he would get a good grade for the course. I was steeling myself for that when a student gave me a card on the way out from the final. I would reprint it here because it was so nice, but it is still in Providence. Anyway it basically thanked me for challenging them and said that I was practically the first teacher she'd ever had at URI who had tried to challenge the students at all... a bunch of things I needed to hear!
Some people think what I teach is challenging. I'll take that over the twerp at Bryn Mawr (HS) who left on the last day of classes by yelling, "Thanks for the eighth-grade history class!" I love it when people try to make you feel as bad as you possibly can. Well, so this is better.
Also, I was feeling horrible about the course after one guy told me he "never connected" with it because it was "more like philosophy than history" and he wanted to memorize facts and dates. In the context of hoping he would get a good grade for the course. I was steeling myself for that when a student gave me a card on the way out from the final. I would reprint it here because it was so nice, but it is still in Providence. Anyway it basically thanked me for challenging them and said that I was practically the first teacher she'd ever had at URI who had tried to challenge the students at all... a bunch of things I needed to hear!
Some people think what I teach is challenging. I'll take that over the twerp at Bryn Mawr (HS) who left on the last day of classes by yelling, "Thanks for the eighth-grade history class!" I love it when people try to make you feel as bad as you possibly can. Well, so this is better.
