What ita said, MG.
Gah. I have been grading since 2. I've taken a few short breaks to maintain my sanity, but I still have 21 essays left tonight if I want to stick to my plan. Donwanna.
After these 21 essays, I still have to grade nine more essays from a different class, assess nine more poetry quiz revisions, and then write a very carefully worded, very specific narrative for every single student I have this semester.
Blah. My goal tonight is to finish at LEAST 11 of these essays so that tomorrow and Monday won't be total losses.
Did I mention donwanna?
I need a cheer. Somebody write me an inspiration cheer? Please?
Kristin, Kristin, she's our gal!
Frabjous teacher, loyal pal!
Gimme a K!
Gimme an R!
...[etc]
Gimme an N!
What's that spell? HOTTIE!
(OK, so I'm a little silly. But she's got the same initials I do; it was the least I could do.)
I wonder if the teacher expects it to be written from the perspective and knowledge base of a contemporary.
Yes, we are supposed to write as if we lived then.
With the one about the Mayflower, lots of people wrote as women, though women would never have been "heard" back then.
Want to know why
Kristin’s better than you
Because it's a fact
She’s too good to be true
She’s got the power,
The Might,
The strength, and the will
Our Kristin’s the best
And she’s ready to kill!
YaaaaaY Kristin!
MG, perhaps you should anonymously slip some interesting fun topics in the teachers mailbox.
hookers writing about the pox and such...
MG, does the instructor grade these projects in a reasonable fashion? By which I mean, does one get penalized for writing a woman's request to join the Mayflower? Will quoting Martin Luthor King, Jr. (or just having his modern sensibilities) get one a crappy grade when protesting the Virginia Black Code?
For the record, there
were
people who contemporaneously protested things like that.
But would they have had sensibilities of our time doing so?
