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revdorothyl at 06:09pm on 25/11/2008
revdorothyl at 06:09pm on 25/11/2008I was going to choose a snarky icon to go with this 'oh, woe is me!' post, but then I realized that I really needed to choose a 'happy-place' icon, and somehow this one of Richard Dean Anderson's semi-senior-but-still-attractive butt fit the bill.
Okay, now I can go back to my grading with renewed strength.
I'm more than halfway through the grading, and so far I've sent every single one of these papers back to their authors for a more-or-less urgently needed re-write.
The 90 out of 100 I gave to the first one (an exploration of New Testament themes and ideals as seen in the 1996 movie Fargo, and as far as an exhaustive search could determine it really WAS all the student's own, original work, if slightly rough around the edges) -- with the suggestion that slight revisions could easily raise it from 'A-' to 'A' level work -- might turn out to be the highest grade for the class, at least as far as first attempts go.
Since then, I've been encountering far too many New Testament papers that make NO specific references to the New Testament at all, and it's starting to 'bum' me out (good thing I have RDA's posterior to gaze upon for spiritual refreshment).
Back to the 'salt of the earth' mines!
Okay, now I can go back to my grading with renewed strength.
I'm more than halfway through the grading, and so far I've sent every single one of these papers back to their authors for a more-or-less urgently needed re-write.
The 90 out of 100 I gave to the first one (an exploration of New Testament themes and ideals as seen in the 1996 movie Fargo, and as far as an exhaustive search could determine it really WAS all the student's own, original work, if slightly rough around the edges) -- with the suggestion that slight revisions could easily raise it from 'A-' to 'A' level work -- might turn out to be the highest grade for the class, at least as far as first attempts go.
Since then, I've been encountering far too many New Testament papers that make NO specific references to the New Testament at all, and it's starting to 'bum' me out (good thing I have RDA's posterior to gaze upon for spiritual refreshment).
Back to the 'salt of the earth' mines!
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I love the idea of using Fargo. Good for that student, and good for you helping someone with good ideas to improve his or her writing.
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I just got through reading a paper on likening Eli Stone to Saul/Paul and several other apostles and prophets in the NT, though I had to send that one back, also, since the student MENTIONED in passing a lot of New Testament content, but only looked up the specific verse references for two passages that he quoted verbatim. I told him I enjoyed his paper, but I wanted to be able to give him credit for knowing as much NT as he obviously did, so could he please show me that he actually knows how to find all those characters and events in the Bible?
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Fargo is a very interesting choice. It's such a delicious mixed bag on that front.
Instructions? We don't need no stinkin' instructions!
Yes, the 'Fargo' paper came as a pleasant surprise to me, since the student only chose the topic the day before it was due (the paper topic was supposed to be selected and submitted for my approval two weeks earlier). I was expecting something pretty shoddy, but this student (who only perks up in class when I mention music or entertainment, since he has his own band like so many of my Nashville students) actually shocked me in a good way, by demonstrating honest-to-goodness thought and biblical research. Who knew?
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Thank heaven for bottoms, eh? Even in baggy fatigues. (Now demonstrate your knowledge of the New Testament by citing any mentions of bottoms therein.)
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