This is a petition to maintain our current record of zero quizzes. My reasoning is simple. I have talked to numerous people who have been busting their butts doing the reading and their blogging. Many of them aren’t good at quizzes. It’s feasible that those who read could end up as bad off as those who didn’t. Quizzes won’t motivate those who aren’t doing the readings and they could screw over those who are.
It’s enough that those who fail to do the homework will not pick up any helpful tips on blogging from the readings. Those who do the assigned work will obviously benefit from the information contained therein. The more we are exposed to that type of writing the easier it is to mimic.
A third factor, is the adult factor. It’s a senior English class. So, it’s safe to assume that everyone in the class is at least eighteen. That means, it is time that people quit looking over our shoulder and let us succeed or fail on our own merits. Either we will find a way to do the homework amidst our schedules jammed with work, kids, elderly parents, ill relatives, and our hobbies, or we won’t. Emergencies arise and we’re adults who know how to prioritize or need to learn how. Babysitting us is not going to help us learn that life skill.
SIGN YOUR NAME USING THE COMMENT BUTTON IF YOU ARE WITH ME! WRITE NO TO QUIZZES! IT’S THE JOY OF A DEMOCRACY.
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I wanted to sneak a generic "Ron Paul '08" comment into this thread, but I think needs to be taken seriously. I'm not a good quiz taker and I tend to memorize items based on their practicality and relevance. I don't think it's fair to punish people if they read an item and they don't find anything practical or relevant to work off of.
My experience in senior English classes suggests it's risky at best, naive at worst, to assume everyone is doing the reading. But still, good know activism is alive and well, even if the college classroom isn't exactly a democracy.
As someone who does the readings, I'll agree that quizzes can sometimes catch a few details that I can't recall. It's disheartening when that happens since your work isn't reflected in your score.
To be diplomatic i would have to say that i could only concur with quizzing if i knew that it would be based off more solid readings like Blood, or hand outs, or a particular post.
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