Question for Y'all
I'm about to run a contest for my class for "worst poem ever," with the intention that their attempts to write bad poetry will help sharpen their sense of what makes for good poetry, too. And I wanted to give them a goofy, awful prize which was handed down to me from another teacher: a book of dating advice compiled by Ashton Kutcher.
Except that once I really looked at the book, it's full of a lot of raunchy stuff that I might joke about with a friend, but which feels really inappropriate as a gift to a student. So what should I use as a prize?
1. Use the dating book anyway.
2. Give a very nice (but serious) book of writing prompts.
3. Sell the dating book and the writing prompt book at a used book store and use the store credit (and a bit of my own money) to buy a more lighthearted and appropriate prize.
Except that once I really looked at the book, it's full of a lot of raunchy stuff that I might joke about with a friend, but which feels really inappropriate as a gift to a student. So what should I use as a prize?
1. Use the dating book anyway.
2. Give a very nice (but serious) book of writing prompts.
3. Sell the dating book and the writing prompt book at a used book store and use the store credit (and a bit of my own money) to buy a more lighthearted and appropriate prize.
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