Well, it has been a few weeks since my last post, and I have been so busy. I think I'm finally back into the swing of things with work and all. It's been a long few weeks, but things are getting back to normal.
Let me share a story or two from work:
-In theatre design, when designing a draft for a set, there's a standard handwriting you're supposed to use. It's all capital letters, and you're supposed to keep the letters at the same height and width as the other letters. We're between shows at the moment, so I opted to teach my students a little about drafting and theatre.
The assignment? Write your ABC's and the numbers 0-9 in the correct handwriting. The next assignment? Copy an excerpt of
As You Like It. Simple enough, right? I mean, after all, it's COPYING and/or writing down your ABC's and numbers. It's no real thought process needed to complete the assignment.
You would have thought that I asked them to copy the entire dictionary whilst solving algebraic equations.
When I was in high school, if my teacher offered this assignment I would have been all over such a simple assignment.
I had a student tell me that writing in all capital letters would mess up their grammar.
Um, sure?
This one isn't really a story, but it's just a trending occurrence. We just completed a unit on improvisation in my acting classes. Almost every single time I'd have them do a little game to teach a technique, it'd turn into a story about drugs or something. That's special.
This update was really just to let everyone know that I am actually like...aware that I have this blog. I'm just a big neglecter lately. :)
