Henri
04/12/2012
I am still grading. Axé.
Brave new students
04/12/2012
As we know, I gave oral final examinations for Spanish 3 for five hours today. I learned that the students are obsessed with the 1950s. – The economy was good in the 1950s and the bills were paid. There was more leisure time. – Many white women would like to live in the 1950s. They … More Brave new students
Post du jour
03/12/2012
After five hours of oral examinations and advising on one paper where I kept saying to the student, “It is not a question of saying whether these phenomena and this concept are good or bad, it is a question of articulating how they appear in the text, and what the text does with them,” we … More Post du jour
Revelation
02/12/2012
It seems that in very many lecture courses there are Power Point slides with a bulleted list of points from the textbook that the professor reads aloud, without explaining. Exams are multiple choice and come from the test bank of the textbook. You can tell the test bank you want fifty medium-hard questions and it … More Revelation
Des réponses
02/12/2012
I keep wanting to answer, for me, the question posed at the end of this post, so I will start making a list of the factors without insisting I finish the post all at once. 1. My dissertation was in beautiful prose but I did not have enough background on the topic to be writing … More Des réponses
On women, and time, and the war metaphor
01/12/2012
These are the revelations of the week on how the phrase do not work so hard which I am convinced is a misogynistic strategy (note to men: it is a common line, too, you could try it…) — 1. when it really is a version of I do not have to, because I am being … More On women, and time, and the war metaphor
01/12/2012
I am still grading for the language classes, so I am still looking for French children’s songs. This is because the first foreign language I learned formally was French, and I did not suffer and feel resentment as the Spanish students do, but found it amusing. Even now, I find French to be an instant … More
Let’s see whether I can grade while listening to this.
01/12/2012
Axé.
Et ma jolie colombe / qui chante jour et nuit
01/12/2012
Here is another children’s / military song, for grading. Axé.
Primeros conjuntos tejanos
01/12/2012
I really am staying up all night in the office grading, more or less Occupying it. I always thought there should be speakers blasting music through the halls and now I can. I have to have campfire-type music because I am grading for Spanish 3, two sections of it, and I am behind. There is … More Primeros conjuntos tejanos
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