Shea
09-05-2006, 08:38 AM
Have I really floated to the top of my papers?!:eek2: I'm still not quite out, but at least my head is above the water!
I definately assigned way too much that first week because my students were so lousy with the parts of speech. I curved the test and out of 145 student, I still only got about 10 A's.
We have a FOUR day weekend (woohoo!!:banana: ). Progress reports were due at 8:00 A.M. this morning. You'd think that with an entire voluntary staff developement day they'd give us until P.M., but we don't work that smart do we? I was up until 2:30 in the morning getting my grades in. At least everything is done online. It makes it nice that the student can go online and see how they're doing anytime without having to ask me (not that many of them will actually go through the trouble; it's too convenient just to ask me:rolleyes: ).
Their writing can be so depressing to a teacher. Here's an excerpt, letter for letter, of one of my tenth graders' essays when I asked them to write about their classes for the year and what they expect of them ("ag" means "agriculture"):
"For first & second I have a block of ag. That is the only reason why I even come to school in the marnin. I like it so much because I Am showin My streer & I work with my white beast (harse). After ag there 3rd period Math its boring but it funnyto see him in a wheel chair. There my marnin for you."
It's too bad I can't show you the handwriting, that's what makes it worse. Believe it or not, his spelling and punctuation is better than others!
I'm going to take my holiday and go see a movie. *Movie? What's a movie? Oh! Wasn't that that thing I used to go to where they put all those pictures on this screen and it told a story? Yeah, I miss that*
I definately assigned way too much that first week because my students were so lousy with the parts of speech. I curved the test and out of 145 student, I still only got about 10 A's.
We have a FOUR day weekend (woohoo!!:banana: ). Progress reports were due at 8:00 A.M. this morning. You'd think that with an entire voluntary staff developement day they'd give us until P.M., but we don't work that smart do we? I was up until 2:30 in the morning getting my grades in. At least everything is done online. It makes it nice that the student can go online and see how they're doing anytime without having to ask me (not that many of them will actually go through the trouble; it's too convenient just to ask me:rolleyes: ).
Their writing can be so depressing to a teacher. Here's an excerpt, letter for letter, of one of my tenth graders' essays when I asked them to write about their classes for the year and what they expect of them ("ag" means "agriculture"):
"For first & second I have a block of ag. That is the only reason why I even come to school in the marnin. I like it so much because I Am showin My streer & I work with my white beast (harse). After ag there 3rd period Math its boring but it funnyto see him in a wheel chair. There my marnin for you."
It's too bad I can't show you the handwriting, that's what makes it worse. Believe it or not, his spelling and punctuation is better than others!
I'm going to take my holiday and go see a movie. *Movie? What's a movie? Oh! Wasn't that that thing I used to go to where they put all those pictures on this screen and it told a story? Yeah, I miss that*