Re: September\'s Bells and Schools Thread
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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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