AM:
60 min elliptical machine
PM:
40 min elliptical machine
SO today I had a chance to look around the Centenary website and see my classes and grades from the past. I also re-read the syllabus for the World Literature class and freaked out. I made a gross error in my understanding of the Reflective Journal that I need to keep weekly. I thought it was a personal journal with me writing about what I learned or took away from the weekly reading assignments. It is not. It is actually a 2-3 page paper I need to write each week.
This is from the syllabus:
REFLECTIVE JOURNALS
Each student will keep a weekly reflective journal based upon the topic discussed in each week’s session. Select one quote per week to reflect upon. Journals may be discussed during online discussions. Journal entries should be written in Word and submitted via the Assignment link in Moodle to the instructor by Saturday at midnight for each week. Entries should be two to three pages (double- spaced with one space between paragraphs using either Times New Roman or Arial 12 point fonts only).
Reflective journals will be assessed using the Reflective Journal Rubric.
The written reflective journal should include:
Identification of the author of the quote
Identification of the literary work of the quote
Analysis and explanation of the significance/meaning of each quote
Evaluation of how each quote is relevant to present day
Week 1:
“This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.”
“Yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, as any she belied by false compare.”
Week 2:
“But at my back I always hear, Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
“No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by and made fit for God by that affliction.”
Week 3:
“Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flea the carcass; the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine
gentlemen.”
“Stella be not troubled, though thy size – and years – have doubled.”
Week 4:
“If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?
Week 5:
“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
“So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.”
“We are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.”
Week 6:
“Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
“Nature red in tooth and claw . . . .”
Week 7:
“… the joy that kills.”
“When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory–*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!”
Week 8:
“Or does it explode?”
“Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen,
that he would never be free until we did.”
Combine this with the actual readings I will need to do and I am screwed. I am not going to make it through this class. I should not set myself up for failure. This is going to cost over 1,500 to take the class then when I fail it another 1,500 to take a different one. I am going to have to take a different class or take one locally and transfer in the credits. My GPA is 3.17 which is not bad. Failing a class or just getting by with a D or C will not keep me above a 3.0 Grade Point Average.
