Persuasive Papers

I'm a glutton for punishment. Originally, I had scheduled my College Comp persuasive papers due on Monday. That would give me a night to get through them - ha. Who am I kidding? I mean that would give me a night to get a start on them.

But my students weren't on solid group with in-text citation and works cited yet, so I pushed the deadline back to Tuesday so I could help them out yesterday.

The only problem with that is I have my College Comp II persuasive papers due today.

Gulp.

At least I had the College Comp II class work in teams to write their papers. So the number of papers I have to grade should be cut in half.

One interesting development, though, will be that I'll have to find a way to grade myself. I offered students who either didn't have a group or didn't feel comfortable working in a group the chance to work with me on a paper.

One student took me up on it and we wrote a paper defending the teaching of the classics and textbooks in school. It was more of a response to an article that calls for teachers to move away from the classics and textbooks and use more modern works of various popular genres instead.

Now, we aren't totally opposed to that, but we think students should read it all. And "Read It All" is what we named the paper.

I hope I did well on my share of the paper!