Not a single student in my 110 class (current events-flavored composition II) did their reading for today.
Every single person bombed the quiz.
One student said she didn't have time to keep track of current events. (I told her that she was going to have issues in this class, because of, you know, the
purpose of the course.)
While trying to steer the conversation towards the essay (which none of them read, but I was trying to salvage my original lesson plan) linking Britney Spears
et al to the early sexualization of pre-adolescent girls, the students kept hijacking the discussion to the latest celebrity gossip. And would interrupt me to do so. ("Are you all
kidding me? Or is there a barn around here I don't know about?")
Because everyone was woefully unprepared, I couldn't execute the really nifty lesson plan/class discussion I had planned, and, to be honest, I was seriously peeved by all of the above, the homework got pretty
piled on. In response to this, one student was actually dumb enough to exclaim, "But I have classes!" My response: "
Of. Which. This. Is. One."
The good news is that Emma Thompson is, indeed, awesome, and not just as an actress and writer, but as a feminist and activist as well:
The English actress Emma Thompson has stepped in to protest about an up-and-coming British actress...being required by an American film company to lose weight for her next role."Many people frankly don't give a toss about young girls being raped," Thompson, a dedicated anti-trafficking activist, said. "And in some parts of the world, rape is just a fact of life."Many thanks to
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commodorified for the original heads-up and links.
