End of Days (harhar)

Here's the scoop on the last two days:

Tuesday. I went in and asked what the students always wanted to know about grammar but were afraid to ask (apologies to Woody Allen). They came up with a good list. I added comma splices, the colon, and the dash (for kicks). I split the class into pairs and gave each group a writing handbook. They were tasked with teaching the class about the grammar element they chose. It went okay. My hope is that it will at least start to de-mystify these elements and students will know they can find out about them in handbooks. The students liked it. We talked about when you proofread your paper and how to proofread for these elements.

Thursday. I had copies of 2 very fine project 2's. We read them as our last texts in the class and talked about them. Then the students did a qw about what they know about writing and how it has or hasn't changed since the start of the quarter (I gave them back the in-class essay they wrote in the 1st week about themselves as writers). We chatted about this and said goodbye.