Minutiae

One of my students found a 1958 6d piece at the bus stop and gave it to me. We wasted a bunch of classtime talking about the pre-decimal system in Australia. Mind you, we also spent an hour working on identifying Latin roots of words and playing with prefixes. All the rest was writing movie reviews. I had to politely dissent when one student identified a certain Lucas film (the title contains the word 'clones') as a brilliant work of art.

That was this morning. This afternoon was thunders...