#which is good. she works on poetry so she'll have a better grasp of it.

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had my first bad teaching day today which 🥴 they were working on an assignment that requires them to compose poetry in latin in meter and uhhhh i haven't had to scan latin in a long time. many mistakes were made: did not review the rules of latin meter, did not know the rules for long and short syllables (which tbh there aren't that many of them - a lot of times it's just a straight up memorization thing), and then panicked in class which certainly didn't help. i also had a student who felt like she was trying to get me to do the assignment for her - she kept asking me to give her words that fit the foot and when i asked what she was trying to say she really just said "i'm just trying to get any words that fit the meter" and y'know. it didn't really feel like it was my job to produce words for her like that bc one of the hard parts is trying to put your own thoughts into latin and into meter. anyways it made it back to the prof i'm ta'ing for and when i saw her at tea she asked how class was and apparently that one student went and had complaints and the prof said she was a little bit worried. which like. the student's concerns are certainly valid. but also it sure did feel like she was trying to just get the work done and take advantage of me and not actually engage with the assignment in any meaningful way. anyways it's fine. unfortunately while teaching shit like this happens. it wasn't my assignment but i under prepared which is on me. my lessons are: review scansion; work on my long and short by nature rules; and remain calm during class - i don't have to know everything and there were plenty of points where i could have reframed something through the lens of "let's look at this tool and/or rules together" rather than going "i don't know."