Teaching four sections of a course in a week – and improvising a summary of the Bible

Whenever I teach three sections of a course per week, the third group generally gets the best class: my points are polished, and I can refer to the discussions with the first two groups. But in 2004-2005, when I taught four sections per week of an introductory course, I was just too worn out to teach well by the fourth time around. This week, I taught four sections of a course again, my two sections and two sections for my colleague on paternity leave. But now, the best was the fourth session, with my improvised two-minute summary of the entire Bible in a discussion of Charles Dickens's 1854 novel "Hard Times". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 6 March 2025)