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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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How can it be a Blue Book when it's yellow?
Second question: Does anyone still use Blue Books? I did when I taught because I love the smell of fear in a classroom, but it's been almost 11 years since the last time I had a chance to warp young minds.
I taught a class about a year ago and used them for a portion of the final exam (the non-multiple choice portion). It was law school, though, not college.
I remember "blue books"- in college we had them. I remember for our final exam in Shakespeare we had ONE question - to explain Shakespeare's humanism in his writing. I managed to B.S. my way through a whole blue book without quite knowing what the question meant and got a B. B.S. has always been my strength!
A blue book is a small saddle-stapled notebook teachers use to give essay exams. They come in various sizes - that yellow blue book has 8 wide-ruled blank pages and is probably the equivalent of 3 sheets of regular 3-ring binder notebook paper. College students who hate essay exams (and most do) break out in the proverbial cold sweat when they hear the phrase "bring a blue book."
I asked the one college student in the house. Chloe hasn't written in a Blue Book. Not even one that's yellow.
ReplyDeleteI taught a class about a year ago and used them for a portion of the final exam (the non-multiple choice portion). It was law school, though, not college.
ReplyDeleteThe ones I used were actually blue, though...
ReplyDeleteI remember "blue books"- in college we had them. I remember for our final exam in Shakespeare we had ONE question - to explain Shakespeare's humanism in his writing. I managed to B.S. my way through a whole blue book without quite knowing what the question meant and got a B. B.S. has always been my strength!
ReplyDeleteJesusfuckingchrist, I must be old, I have no idea what a blue book is.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm reading a great novel, I KNOW THAT THIS MUCH IS TRUE, by Wally Lamb.
A blue book is a small saddle-stapled notebook teachers use to give essay exams. They come in various sizes - that yellow blue book has 8 wide-ruled blank pages and is probably the equivalent of 3 sheets of regular 3-ring binder notebook paper. College students who hate essay exams (and most do) break out in the proverbial cold sweat when they hear the phrase "bring a blue book."
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