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Progymnasmata

Warning: Teacher Venting!

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The Comedian
, 10-04-2011 at 01:37 PM (1981 Views)
When a student says that an author "rambles on and on", I have to channel my inner-yoga guru to calm down before proceeding calmly on with the lesson or activity.

Why such professorial ire? Because when a student says that an author "rambles on", this is what he or she means: because I'm used to being fed Twitter-sized bites of literacy pertaining to sex, violence, and gossip, anything that offers explanation, justification, evidence, and logic, I will label as "rambling" so that I can blame the intelligent author rather than indite myself for needing my literature sliced up and sugared like intellectual baby food.

. . . . .ahhh. . . . that's better.
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  1. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    This is a worthwhile vent. Good for you for keeping your tempter, I often have to pray to keep from losing mine.

    I had to deny one of my students an eraser today because he eats them. LOL!
  2. stephofthenight's Avatar
    I'm not sure which is better the twizler analogy (boy do I love literature and twizlers...hmm wonder if they could do twizlers like cheese its and print words on them. buy a box of poetry bite twizlers..yum) or the eraser eating student... And my teachers thought I was annoying for writing everything backwards. sheesh
  3. JuniperWoolf's Avatar
    ...so that I can blame the intelligent author rather than indite myself for needing my literature sliced up and sugared like intellectual baby food.
    Ooh, great sentence. Violent sounds to back up the sentiment, strong visuals. Molto bene.
  4. 1n50mn14's Avatar
    You don't want to come to my college communications class. >.<

    'Who's your favorite author?'

    'Ummm... Ke$ha.'
  5. qimissung's Avatar
    Brilliant!
  6. mtpspur's Avatar
    While reading this Thomas Hardy and Walter Scott came to mind. So I had a tiny bit of sympathy for the student. You are right the age when the young were expected to spend readign and thinking about a book seem ot be long gone.
  7. AuntShecky's Avatar
    A few months ago I posted a (longish) essay
    which in part addressed this topic:
    http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=59356

    By the bye, tell your students the word is
    "indict."

    Your blogs are always interesting, Comedian!
  8. skib's Avatar
    Seriously like, LOL man! (no, I really did laugh out loud!) Great little shpiel sir!
  9. LadyLuck's Avatar
    I had to laugh at this. I swear if I see "btw" or some other abbreviation in an e-mail or some other semi official document again, I may just go beserk.
  10. Jack of Hearts's Avatar
    Heheh. This reader has abused his fair share of English teachers- sorry for it now, of course, but at the time they were probably thinking nasty things about their student.

    The fact that you can channel your 'inner yoga teacher' and display restraint is pretty admirable.







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