week three wed.

In both sections of my class today we played "the five C's of style jeopardy. In this game, students choose a category and a point value (100-500), just like regular jeopardy. Then I put a sentence on the overhead projector that has something wrong with it stylistically and the students try to "fix" it. This went really well last year when I taught engl. 103.

This time around it went pretty well, though not quite as smoothly as last year. For one thing, the overhead projector in the classroom for my first section is extremely old and displayed a tendency to create smoke in a somewhat frightening manner. This distracted the class a little. Also, the "five C's of style" is something out of last year's writing handbook, which we no longer use. So students couldn't have their handbooks open to give them ideas. A really prepared teacher who is on the ball would probably have come up a new version of the game that used the new handbook.