tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post109588710503692638..comments2023-05-03T11:54:07.518-04:00Comments on Pugnacious Pinoy: You give quizzes?? For poetry??!!!Oliver de la Pazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708989542004589056noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post-1096133146730741692004-09-25T13:25:00.000-04:002004-09-25T13:25:00.000-04:00Exactly, Allison. School is school. And not only...Exactly, Allison. School is school. And not only that, but our department spells out what the GOALS for our majors should be. One of the goals is that they learn the vocabulary for later upper division courses. <br /><br />Quizzes are also a pretty good way to determine which students are there simply to get the ". . . writing requirement out of the way."Oliver de la Pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708989542004589056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post-1096130559971772252004-09-25T12:42:00.000-04:002004-09-25T12:42:00.000-04:00Hey, Oliver--Not only do I give quizzes, I give te...Hey, Oliver--Not only do I give quizzes, I give tests on poetic terms. Long ones. Especially in my undergraduate forms of poetry class--which I teach as a prosody/fixed forms class. Quizzes and tests and book reports. You may be teaching poetry, but it's still school. And school is all about tests.<br />Allison J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post-1095956742492008802004-09-23T12:25:00.000-04:002004-09-23T12:25:00.000-04:00I'll post the quiz after my other class has taken ...I'll post the quiz after my other class has taken it. It's not that I don't trust them . . . but I don't trust them. :-DOliver de la Pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708989542004589056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post-1095891510235198852004-09-22T18:18:00.000-04:002004-09-22T18:18:00.000-04:00ah, but the difference btwn. a "stanza" and a "ver...ah, but the difference btwn. a "stanza" and a "verse paragraph" ... <br /><br />anyway kudos for doing your part, o! love, <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fbjanepr.blog-city.com">barb</A>bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465386.post-1095887289950484452004-09-22T17:08:00.000-04:002004-09-22T17:08:00.000-04:00Gosh, you should post your quiz...I wonder what we...Gosh, you should post your quiz...I wonder what we practicing poets would score. It might be embarrasing..., but then again, I can only speak for myself.Victoria Changhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404765710797944524noreply@blogger.com