So there’s freezing fog out there today. I didn’t know there was such a thing as freezing fog. Apparently, there is!
I decided to wait to drive to CU for just a bit this morning. I have a bit of work to finish in my office, but not a lot of pressing stuff. So I’m going to give a bit more time for the fog to lift and the salt to be put down before I risk my neck getting to work.
Yesterday wasn’t terribly exciting, but I was productive. I graded all the papers that I had to read, so I can return them to my students (they’ve been asking about them…multiple times…I hate when they do that!). Anyway, that will save me the time and hassle of answering more of those questions. So my schedule was basically, read some papers, take a break, read some papers, eat lunch, read some papers, break, read, break, Eric came home, finish reading, stop.
I goofed off for a while, doing other small projects (like the small group website), then went and actually put grades on the papers I’d read. This morning, I’ll need to go over my grades again to make sure I was fair (being unable to justify my grades is one of my greatest fears). Anyway…then we had dinner and just sort of hung out for the evening. It was a nice break since my brain had been so taxed all day!
well, if you would ever like help deciding what is a justifiable grade for a comp paper… i would be more than happy to help
At least you don’t have as many students as you could this time! Then you wouldn’t have had time for all those breaks yesterday!
That’s the struggle of being a writing teacher…maintaining fair and consistent grades on a fairly subjective issue. I always used a scoring guide to help me, and I STILL had to go back and check for accuaracy!
How many students do you have this semester? Just comp? That’s a lot of reading!
Too much work! Try to take a lot of breaks (for xanga, of course)!