I’m having trouble with one particular class. It feels a bit like the fates are conspiring against me on this one. I spent several hour constructing an incredible sequence of events designed to lead the class through the development of an essay and into a handful of crucial rhetorical patterns. Now, I thought I saved it. In fact, I feel like I copied part of the document into my evernote at some point without, apparently, saving the original document. If I did save the thing, I did so in a way that completely obfuscated it.
The problem is only partly content. Students will only get excited about something the instructor is excited about. Even then, they need to feel personally connected to the issue in some way in order to give a damn. The plan required students to come prepared with homework read and written in order to get into class. Each day requires a ticket in. At the end of the month the students are asked to assess the ticket in strategy as to how it affected their learning.
Here is the problem: I don’t know what the ticket-in for thursday is. So, I gotta generate a new ticket in, so I can keep things going. I think the ticket is going to be a 1 page draft of their reasoning behind their assignment choice for Tuesday.
That could work. It ought to, because everything else is gone.