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

From: <1001~at~atlanticbb.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:27:34 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Or why not just use the Puffiin Classics Editiion, which claims its benefits
being:

"This Puffin abridgment has taken out the more arduous and dated bits of
nineteenth-century science, and lists of underwater species, in order to
clarifiy the main, thrilling adventure story--and the character of the
brilliant, misanthropic Captain Nemo."

"This epic story has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics"
nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nejat Bayramoglu" <neckobay~at~ttmail.com>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)


> David, I'm sorry.
> I may have great ideas about teaching, but being not a teacher myself,
> perhaps it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
> Your response to my message revived memories of a pretty novel I had read
> some forty years ago: "Up the Down Staircase"
>
> Nejat
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Merchant" <merchant~at~latech.edu>
> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)
>
>
> > At 01:27 PM 1/2/2008, you wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > My only fear is that they will say every chapter is boring :-). Too many
> > of my students are people who don't like reading (well, they think they
> > don't like it, hard to say you don't like something if you've never done
> > it before). They work very hard at fining escape clauses, loopholes,
> > wiggle room. That they are experts and geniuses at. And if that fails,
> > then they just skip short readings and take the penalty for failing a
> > reading quiz (I'm working on increasing the penalties for that). Every
> > quarter I have to add another clause to my ever lengthening syllabi to
> > cover yet another loophole. Very literal, these engineers! I do have
some
> > that like to read, and a few that love to read - computer science
majors,
> > humanities majors, mainly. I'm afraid it is in no small part the
failings
> > of the Louisiana public school system. That, and the No Child Left
Behind
> > act - the high school teachers are too busy teaching to the tests, and
> > little time for writing papers and critical reading. But that's a tirade
> > for another list, not this one.
> >
> > TTFN,
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Instructor, Department of English.
> > Louisiana Tech University
>
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