As Springfield celebrates its bicentennial, Lisa's class at Springfield Elementary School are assigned essays.
For some classes, like English, essential skills may be demonstrated by receiving a passing grade on assigned essays or tests.
So when she assigns essays, Ms. Castellano asks her students to print.
What about assigning essays on baseball sketches or movies, from Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine to Kevin Costner's "Field of Dreams"?
So when I assign essays like Jennifer Chen's Why I Didn't Want My Miscarriage to Stay Secret or Kristin Chirico's My Boyfriend Loves Fat Women, both of which are incredibly thoughtful, smart explorations by women of formerly taboo subjects, I'm also thinking about how I can give people access to the huge platform that BuzzFeed offers.
The objective is to relate the science to their knowledge and interests, says Goldsmith, who taught a nonmajor course on the biological roots of human nature for more than a decade, assigning essays in which students considered, for example, what a gene is and what it does.
Too often it's as though Adam had unwillingly been assigned an essay on "the body": "Doctors spend their lives touching bodies, which is why young people go to medical school".
When he was sixteen, the only Arab student in his high-school class in Jerusalem, a teacher assigned an essay about a day in the life of a figure of the students' choice.
When one student answered a question with a giant yawn around 2 15, Mr. Sloane asked, "Can everyone make it about 15 more minutes?" For homework, he assigned an essay analyzing Calpurnia's rhetoric in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," leading one student to ask whether Shakespeare used an alias.
Each group discussed the scores they had assigned the essay for each rating scale in turn, until they came to a score for each rating scale that everyone was satisfied with.
