Professor Chaucer's Office, Monday

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

The following note is tacked to the door of Professor Chaucer's office:

Attention Western Literature and Poetry Students:

Today is your last day to turn in make-up work for missed classes, extra credit work, or submittals for your end-of-term Western Lit project.

Grades as of today will be posted here shortly. Your final project will have a significant impact on your grade, so if you're in the habit of missing classes, I strongly suggest this week's class not be one of them.

If you need to get in touch with me today concerning any of these, please use my voice mail.


Western Literature, FINAL GRADES
notcalledlizzie: A-
the4thsister: B
___lily_evans_: D+
miss_thomasina: C+
soniabelmont: B+
conathon: B
studentwillow: F

Remember that your final project counts for 20% of your grade.


Creative Writing: Poetry, Pre-final project grades
leeadama: A+
lisacuddy: B+
scissors__: A-
chasingangela: A+
the4thsister: A
positive_angel: A-
rory__gilmore: B+
death_n_binky: A-
ihatedenmark: A-
swerval_zero: B
kikidelivers: A+
sheltered_texan: A-

Your final project counts toward the creative writing element of this class, which is 75% of your grade!


[OOC: You have until midnight tonight EST to comment here with your make-up or extra credit work, or to submit your topic for the end-of-term project (Western Lit students).]

[ETA: Grades have been added under the cuts.]

[ETA2: Western Lit has been updated with FINAL GRADES.]

Comments

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Is it sad that I'm as completely gleeful about pulling an A+ in this class as I would if I myself were really taking it?]

[Also, highfive to Lee. Go Curve-Wreckers Club!]

[Third ooc, then I'll really shut up: There's a bad tag for the poetry list names. It has to be.... Edward Scissorhands, I think?]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[It's not sad. I sat here typing this up thinking, I wonder if people are going to be unhappy with their grades? Also, when I assigned the sestina project, I seriously thought 'Hey, I had to write one in my poetry class! They can do it too.' *grin*]

[I don't grade on a curve. Ever. If you all fail, you all fail. ;)]

[Fixed. Amazing what one missing quotation mark can do.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Grin. Can't wait for more poetry class :) ]

[Still, it's fun to say ;-) It's nice to know we WOULD be the curve-wreckers if one existed.]

[And fourthly, crazy mad love to Chaucer/you for actually assigning the grades rather than just asking what we prefer we got. It's so exciting!!]

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

((you're so right! I'm amazed at P's grade cos OMG my knowledge of Lit if beyond minimal! *goes to look at my rather pathetic sestina*))

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[Seriously? I had no idea it was even allowed to just ask people what grades they wanted. Man, calculus would have been so much easier if my school had done that! *grins* But honestly, I set up a grading structure -- it only seemed right that I actually use it.]

[And by the way, I'm so going to hit Kiki up to apply for TA for my class next term.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[omg wordy mcwordpants! She accepts. Now. Before the offer is made.]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[*hysterical laughter* Western Lit or Poetry? Or both?]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Definite yes to Poetry, and I will say yes to Western Lit with the caveat that if there is someone else would like to do it, they should be allowed to have it, in the interest of fairness. Kiki can't hog all the TAships for the totally droolworthy sexgod English professor!]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[I may have to require that applicants for the Western Lit TA position come up with equally complementary descriptions of the totally droolworthy sexgod English professor. Maybe award the position to the person with the best one. *grins*

Seriously -- you've got it. Kiki is now officially the Poetry TA, and unofficially the Western Lit TA. Yay!]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Now, if Western Lit were really Creative Writing, that could be your first assignment: "In roughly 100 words, describe me. TAship, aside from your grade, hinges upon your answer."

And squee! *happy Snoopy dance* Thank you!!]

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[OMG! Homework essay! *is OMG horribly tempted*

You're welcome!]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Actually, I'll amend the assignment: "In roughly 100 words, describe me. TAship, aside from your grade, hinges upon your answer. Bonus points will be given for favorable use of the following words: articulate, handsome, dashing, droolworthy, charming, intelligent, sexy, magnificent sexgod. Essays are due next class."]

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

((Paige would find that far too easy to write but it probably cost her her relationship with Sawyer, well okay maybe not, but they'd fight about it big style!))

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[I am so making a note of this and assigning it for our first class.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[*dies of giggle*

....

*Resurrects purely via anticipation*]

now! with fixed html!

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

((OMG will so fight you over being the TA :P ))

Re: now! with fixed html!

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Rumble!!
Well, like I said, iron-grip dibs on the Poetry, but am willing to step back on West.Lit if Chaucer oks it]

Re: now! with fixed html!

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[Well, there's always that essay contest. Or jello fighting! *grin* Since there is interest (yay!), I'll be posting a request for TAs for Western Lit when the sign-up sheet is posted. :)]

Re: now! with fixed html!

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Ooo, it'd be like TA Gladiators, or Iron TA! Marathon essays, masochistic vocabulary contests and pudding wrestling!]

Re: now! with fixed html!

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[Iron TA -- *loves on you* Oh, I have the whole holiday to plot, too. *maniacal laughter*]

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

*high fives!!*

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

*woots!*

[swerval_zero]

((I get the feeling I missed the posts for a lot of the poetry classes, but oh, well. Zero will live with it.))

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[Zero didn't attend the class where we wrote sonnets, which means an F for both missing the class and for the missed creative writing assignment -- it's really the writing assignment that brought the grade down. You still have time, if you want to turn in make-up work, just post here that you did so -- post that you turned in a sonnet specifically -- and you can get your grade up to a B. Plus, there's still the sestina assignment, which will definitely affect the final grade.]

[swerval_zero]

((I wish I was on my computer at school--I had some really fantastically hilarious attempts at sonnets on there. I could've given you a real one!))

*Slips a sonnet into Professor Chaucer's mailbox with a candy cane. The candy cane is in no way attached to the sonnet, so hopefully it will be taken as an anonymous gift and not a bribe.*

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

[*laughs*]

Chaucer finds the sonnet and the candy cane. As they're the only two things in his mail box (no one sends him mail, woe!), he guesses they're from the same person. Sucking happily on the candy cane, he reads over the sonnet and slips it into Zero's file, then changes her grade to a 'B'.