Playing Catch UP from The Cottage of Blog
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Good morning. Back to The Cottage of Blog where I'm having fresh coffee and juice and -- oh the heck with it. You don't want to know what I'm eating.
I've just gone through a week's worth of computer shopping and trying to grade two chapters from 150 kids, that (ideally speaking) would be about 300 papers. Fortunately for me, unfortunately for them, the amount wasn't nearly that. Now, one test to measure their knowledge in four chapters (yeah, yeah, it will be an open book test, although it shouldn't be) but it is four chapters and who around here has ever heard of Peking Opera or the INdian Tintal rhythm cycles? Some of my kids don't even know the great art form of jazz began in New Orleans. I certainly hope they know that now.
I'm trying to work out Mark and Annie's relationship. So, the week hasn't been a complete bust. He hates her to begin with, she grows to dislike him because of his pompous and abrasive approach to her, women and life in general. Then he does something so completely kind and on the other hand does it with such lack of grace, she can't make out what to think.
Yes, I think that's working. And, I haven't given away any state secrets. It's the pattern of over half the romances I've read. In fact, it seems to be a required element of the genre. To follow the new heroine trends, my heroine is feisty, willing to take on all comers, even in the face of ultimate peril. Okay. Check done.
Is there character growth? Yes, I think so. He learns what's been lacking in his life and why he acts so shitty. She learns that love comes in all sorts of packages, and that some types of love are not so positive. Especially, when that type of love kills the loved one.
So, have I given too much of my plot away? I don't think so. But, I'm glad to have had a forum to "talk it out" so to speak.
So, how many of you out there with a desk top and lap top use the desk top for home and the lap top exclusively on the road? Or, has you laptop become your main computer? It would be interesting to know.
Now, back to writing a two-unit test for my high school music class.
Cheers
Pat
Good morning. Back to The Cottage of Blog where I'm having fresh coffee and juice and -- oh the heck with it. You don't want to know what I'm eating.
I've just gone through a week's worth of computer shopping and trying to grade two chapters from 150 kids, that (ideally speaking) would be about 300 papers. Fortunately for me, unfortunately for them, the amount wasn't nearly that. Now, one test to measure their knowledge in four chapters (yeah, yeah, it will be an open book test, although it shouldn't be) but it is four chapters and who around here has ever heard of Peking Opera or the INdian Tintal rhythm cycles? Some of my kids don't even know the great art form of jazz began in New Orleans. I certainly hope they know that now.
I'm trying to work out Mark and Annie's relationship. So, the week hasn't been a complete bust. He hates her to begin with, she grows to dislike him because of his pompous and abrasive approach to her, women and life in general. Then he does something so completely kind and on the other hand does it with such lack of grace, she can't make out what to think.
Yes, I think that's working. And, I haven't given away any state secrets. It's the pattern of over half the romances I've read. In fact, it seems to be a required element of the genre. To follow the new heroine trends, my heroine is feisty, willing to take on all comers, even in the face of ultimate peril. Okay. Check done.
Is there character growth? Yes, I think so. He learns what's been lacking in his life and why he acts so shitty. She learns that love comes in all sorts of packages, and that some types of love are not so positive. Especially, when that type of love kills the loved one.
So, have I given too much of my plot away? I don't think so. But, I'm glad to have had a forum to "talk it out" so to speak.
So, how many of you out there with a desk top and lap top use the desk top for home and the lap top exclusively on the road? Or, has you laptop become your main computer? It would be interesting to know.
Now, back to writing a two-unit test for my high school music class.
Cheers
Pat
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Just popping in to say hi! :-)
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