Let's support Pete's book!

[John G. DeArmond]

pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:

><sigh>  As with every other textbook I've used for this course, the
>students still refuse to read it!  I'm even giving test points for
>discovering errors and only two or three will even open the book.  Such
>is life in an open-enrollment college!!

>Thanks again,
>Pete
>-- 

Hey Pete,  Here's what you do.  It's what my high school history 
teacher did (damn him, he made me read enough to want to be politically
active :-)  At least half of the points on every test he gave would
be quotes from the book with words left out.  We had to fill in the 
blanks.  To avoid rote memorization, he'd hand out memeographed sheets
of sentences from the same paragraphs with the rule being that some
OTHER sentence from that paragraph would be on the test.  I hate
to admit it but I learned more history from his courses than all the 
others combined.

John

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Atlanta, Ga             | they find inconvienent."  -me   Defend the 2nd
{emory,uunet}!rsiatl!jgd| with the same fervor as you do the 1st.