The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Quiz -- COMM 150 -- 500 extra credit points

Sometimes when attendance lags in my classes, I like to give quizzes in class that are not too intellectually taxing and will essentially reward you for coming to class. Today's quiz is about newspapers.

Answer as comments to this blogpost.

Q. In what large East Coast city is The New York Times located?

A.
1. Petersburg
2. Athens
3. New Berlin
4. Illiopolis
5. New York.
Be sure to tell your classmates who weren't here what you did to earn 500 extra credit points.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.