Teaching with a newbie

I'm TAing with a new prof and he is driving me crazy. He sends mass emails, at least once a week to the entire class (250 or so), which are repetive in nature and can be found on the class website as well,... and then he sends that same email plus modifcations to the other TA and myself. I have TAed this class multiple times and co-taught it 3 times with other graduate students, I do not need repeated instructions, such as "Please tell the students in discussion the due date of their assignment." No shit sherlock! Even if you tell them the due date multiple times you may still get students asking about that and emailing you questions about it. That does not mean the TA didn't mention it, it just means that the student didn't go to section, wasn't paying attention in section, didn't hear the instructions or forgot! Please respond to the student and stop emailing me everytime you get a question, like I've been a bad puppy and haven't done my duty. I have, so please figure it out: undergrads always have questions. Sometimes multiple times. That doesn't mean I haven't explained it at least once, probably twice or three times! ARRRGH!

Then today I got another email explaining what he wanted covered for next week. He attached an awful power point presentation too. Even after I explained discussion is meant for discussion! (Yes, some review and stressing new things, and answering questions but not another mini lecture) Especially not a mini lecture over an entire section of the book he isn't even touching on in lecture. This part of the class is not to fill in what you can not fit in lecture. If the class was designed to be a three lecture a week class they would have made it that way! Section, once a week w/ the TA's can sometimes have mini lecture components to stress the difficult concepts to grasp, but there should also be extra readings to facilitate discussion, or hands on activities or something besides us talking and them listening. They do that enough as it is!

In other developments, I have made a small inroad on my discussion/conclusion portion of my paper but I need to get back to it, to really pinpoint all the important stuff and streamline it too.