Overworked: crazy assignments

CranberryOrange
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:14:33 +0000

Share your assignments that were unreasonable. It can be because of the class level, the time limit, the grading policy, or whatever.

I’m currently taking a break from a seven page French essay on a 19th century play we read over the summer. It’s unreasonable because the class (including all previous years) has never written more than five or so pages and when we’ve done that, we’ve been given about two weeks and it’s been on a really easy topic, such as, “Write a creative short story that’s vaguely related to French culture” or “Why do you think family is important?” I would consider this a hard essay in English, but I have to write it in a language I’m not fluent in…