From jsiegel@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu Sun Feb 28 14:45:07 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id OAA14144 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:45:05 -0800 Received: from nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (root@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu [155.247.166.101]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id OAA32236 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:45:05 -0800 Received: from nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (lr16-m6.ppp.temple.edu [155.247.228.166]) by nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15218 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:45:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36D9C703.18C158C@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:45:23 -0500 From: Janice Siegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re:cribbed papers (was: "hot" Euripides) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I say we all start writing tongue-in-cheek essays on the most commonly assigned plays and disseminate them widely. Those in the know will grin at the joke, and those who haven't bothered to read the play itself will hand in papers like the one I graded my first year teaching seniors in high school. The teacher before me had assigned Ivan Denisovich for summer reading and asked very basic questions. One kid in the class read the book and answered the questions. Everyone else copied his paper, but one kid couldn't read his handwriting clearly and remarked that the item Ivan stole and hid every night was a TOWEL (instead of a TROWEL). To "prove" that his answers were his, he also added a little something to every answer he cribbed. Thus, his full response to the question was, "Ivan stole and hid a towel, a luxury not every prisoner could afford." And he could never figure out how I caught him... Cheers, Janice .