Every 200 class I've ever taught has had a day where everybody universally bombed. Where there was a concept or concepts that tripped everybody up at the same time. Generally, an ugly day.
For you guys, Wednesday was that day.
Actually, Thursday was, too. Lots of rough grading. Lots of missteps. Half the class had at least one fact fatal. One person had a time fatal. Out of 20 assignments submitted, only two were graded at 3.0 or higher. Brutal.
But I want to reiterate that days like this happen when you're learning something new. In journalism we learn by doing and then reviewing and then applying those lessons going forward.
If there's anything good to come from last week, it's that I have abetter sense of what we have to work on to get to where you want to be.
So let's start looking at the carnage in hopes of fixing things ASAP.
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