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I think DB is channeling Michael Caine on this one.

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I frequently do this, so that's possible. However, in this spot, it would be my a more deadpan, low-voice, steel-eyed "You owe what you owe, and you know what you owe. I'll take it now."

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Hell, I have to start work tomorrow for the first time since June 20th. One class at 11. Big whine.

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Civilization rocks.

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I agree completely.

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Hell, I have to start work tomorrow for the first time since June 20th. One class at 11. Big whine.

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You poor thing. So early, too. What's the class? Are you preparing tonight?

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Introduction to Literature, and I have already prepared. Basically we're supposed to go over the syllabus, but I start teaching right away and save the syllabus for the following class. Too many students move around too much after the first class and during the first week.

I'll spend forty minutes or so on the first page of Moby Dick.

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Introduction to Literature, and I have already prepared. Basically we're supposed to go over the syllabus, but I start teaching right away and save the syllabus for the following class. Too many students move around too much after the first class and during the first week.



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I like this approach. Good plan, John Cole. Any other classes this semester?

(do you actually learn your students' names?)

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Introduction to Literature, and I have already prepared. Basically we're supposed to go over the syllabus, but I start teaching right away and save the syllabus for the following class. Too many students move around too much after the first class and during the first week.

I'll spend forty minutes or so on the first page of Moby Dick.

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Haha, that should keep your class load light! "On the Whiteness of the Whale" should clear out any stragglers. Maybe top it off with a painfully slow, wheezy reading of Poe's The Bells, while talking as if you had a mouthful of marbles. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

"...bells bells bells bells bells bells bells, the ringing and the singing of the ..."

News the next day, "200 Freshmen Crushed in Doorway Panic During Poetry Reading"

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Blarg, you should see the looks on their faces when we spend about fifteen minutes on the title of the first chapter and the first sentence. I leave the poetry part for later.

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Katy,

I also teach two Comp. courses, a film class, and a short story class. I do learn the students names, but it usually takes a couple weeks.

But I practice the hard ones before class so I can say them perfectly. Try "Olufunlola Olundijoi"; it's not that easy.

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Best student name I ever heard (not my class, but a colleague's) was a Nigerian student: Nozzy Fannybander.

This might be funnier for the English than for Americans.