Dr. C.’s Learning Web

Perhaps “nettled” is too strong, though I did detect a surprising and not unwelcome amount of challenge in the questions today.
“Introduction to Literary Studies.” Two sections, one at nine and one at eleven. During my travels to the ELI Annual Meeting, I scheduled films for the classes to watch during the two class meetings I’d miss. The early class watched Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, half each day. The later class watched Alain Renais’ Providence, though I found out this morning that they hadn’t quite finished it (they were about twelve minutes or so from the end).
Last Friday, I asked them to watch the movies with Plato, Aristotle, and Longinus in mind, and told them we’d spend some time talking about Longinus in particular upon my return.
Today, both classes wanted to know just what these movies had to do with our classes, and their questions were not just about [...]

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