However, if you have a C- in the class and want to have it raised to an A- just by redoing a few assignments, your teacher will most likely say no; instead, offer to do LOTS of extra credit to prove how motivated you are.
Offer dialogue, not just assignments or lectures.
That day I thought it was just an assignment, and who would care about an assignment (because back in my home country, assignments were not a big thing, only exams were the prominent grading factors).
Nothing special, just an assignment from a textiles class, but the variety of color, textures and forms seemed like a remarkably fresh way to merge painting and sculpture.
Reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma," the best-selling 2006 book by Michael Pollan, was just an assignment for a new parents' night discussion at the private high school that Jake, one of her children, was attending.
She wanted to hear my story about my dad -- who he was, did he have any enemies, etc. Thinking back on it, I'm sure it was just a general assignment for her, but that short interaction left an impression on me.
I want you to stop one of those people in the hall and say: 'Hi! What'd you do last night?' Now, don't make it obvious -- they may know that it's just an assignment.
Sharing Chris' story and filling in the blanks for them becomes not just an assignment, but this lesson that they can take with them outside of college walls.
Her husband, a Marine officer, had been called away on a secret assignment just after she gave birth to her second child.
If it isn't a fancy piece of paper, maybe just a homework assignment, you can easily get some white-out from a nearby office supply store or general store.
When Time magazine first asked Henry Grossman to photograph the Beatles, at their American television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964, he thought of it as just another assignment — a journey into the realm of teenage fads, and less exciting than the sessions he had done with world leaders, actors and opera singers.
