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Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)

From: Nejat Bayramoglu <neckobay~at~ttmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:27:24 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

David,

Rick has provided the "official skipping list" of 20K chapters. I don't
think any Forum member can contest it.

On the other hand, I would in a way side with Master Miller and suggest that
you leave the students free to skip any part or chapter that they find
boring, but ask them to provide their reason for skipping it in two or
three sentences.

You might end up with a collection of very colorful results. (Like future
engineers showing more interest in the marine fauna of the Mediterranean
than how the Nautilus or the diving gear works. Who can tell?)

Best regards,
Nejat Bayramoglu

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Merchant" <merchant~at~latech.edu>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)


> At 11:55 PM 1/1/2008, you wrote:
>>Hi David--
>>
>>The most skippable chapter BY FAR is II 7 -- lengthy catalogs of marine
>>fauna in the Mediterranean with a little vulcanism midway to break the
>>monotony.
>
> Aye, they would rather read ketchup labels than that, I agree. Though I
> may have to summarize the vulcanism part for them (I like that part
> myself).
>
>>Next your engineering majors engineers can feasibly duck these "traveling
>>chapters." (I.e., these are quiet interludes between the big adventure
>>scenes:
>
> I agree. This leaves, IMHO, a rather reasonable amount of text left over
> for them to read in 7 weeks (heck, I may actually change it to 6 weeks). I
> am thinking of having some of the skipped chapters as presentation
> choices - where the students can choose, for example, the discussion on
> subsurface currents or the scheme for classifying and compare and contrast
> that with how modern science views the matters.
>
>>As for the chapters your budding engineers absolutely MUST NOT MISS, they
>>are: I 12-13 (how the Nautilus works), I 15 (how the diving gear works),
>>II 11 (how things could potentially go wrong) and II 15-16 (how things DO
>>go wrong).
>
> Not a worry, I 100% agree with you on that - those are Must Reads.
>
>>I hope this is helpful.
>
> Y'all been right helpful (I'm practicing my Southern - it comes slowly to
> me). Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing how this experiment works.
>
> TTFN
> David
>
> --
> Instructor, Department of English.
> Louisiana Tech University
Received on Wed 02 Jan 2008 - 21:28:34 IST

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