Thursday, April 27, 2006

questions

Today, our topic was research papers and how to write a bibliography...

  • A question I asked in class today, with a variety of student responses:
If you were to write a paper, given the topic "Emily Dickinson and her poetry," how long would your paper need to be to thoroughly cover the topic?

Answers: 2 pages, 21oo pages, 5-10 pages, 50 pages, 4 pages.

Most of my students were certain they could thoroughly exhaust the topic in less than 20 pages. We have a long way to go.
  • Questions asked of me in class today: Yep, we definitely have a long way to go.

How does acid rain cause a frog to have 18 legs?

Has Kevin Bacon fallen off the face of the planet since "Footloose?"

If the ghosts are so important in the Harry Potter books, why does Nearly Headless Nick show up in the first movie and then none of the ghosts show up again until the Goblet of Fire?

Who was Henry IV?

Can I ask you a theological question?

Is the only reason we write bibliographies to keep us from plagiarizing?

Have you ever successfully played "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?"

Why was the Gospel of Judas found in Egypt? The Dead Sea Scrolls and other books of the Bible were found in Israel and the Bible happened in Israel, so why is all the stuff they're finding now in Egypt?

Did you know that the back of Newman's salad dressing says "Don't dilute us like Brutus?"

Who is Kevin Bacon?

1 Comments:

At 5/01/2006 4:39 PM, Blogger Allison said...

This reminded me of my question of the week, which I received on Friday while watching Zepherelli's Romeo and Juliet:

"Mrs. Redd, have you ever sat in an electric chair?"

He was dead serious.

 

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