Really should be grading papers...
But when I came home, I needed a nap. And I wound up sleeping for about 4 1/2 hours. Yikes - I guess the past couple of nights, those 2 hours I lost each night caught up with me. And here I am again at midnight. But I'm tired... tired enough that I could go right to sleep, right now.
And I may just do it as soon as I finish my blogging. I have a few things on my mind that are nagging at me. Not important things, just things. Trivial things that I wouldn't want to bore people with in everyday conversation.
I think this go-around, I'm just going to speed-grade their definitions -- instead of minutely checking every multiple-definition word, I'm just going to make sure they have 16 definitions plus sentences. I had them write stories in class today, using 7 lines from "The Landlady". Once they got over their initial grumpiness about having to work and even think about it first, they were (almost all, I'm sure) busily putting together some pretty crazy original stories. That's definitely a writing assignment worth repeating sometime.
Oh, ha ha. I just realized I'm giving them a quiz tomorrow on the story, and I haven't even put it together yet. It shouldn't take me long though - I probably already have a decent quiz on my computer already. It used to be that I could never use the same tests from year to year (well, it's still true with exams). But now that I'm in a school system that doesn't think the English department is the ONLY department that has no use for computers, either in the classroom or for teacher use, I can keep the question banks and old tests, and just alter them as I need. Thank heaven for useful teacher software and computers.
I was going to go to the coffee shop and work on grading those papers, because it would keep me motivated and awake while I worked, but guess what won out? That overwhelming need to take a nap. If I'd gotten there, a healthy shot of caffeine might have kept me awake, but I changed my mind about going. It didn't seem worth the trip across town.
And I may just do it as soon as I finish my blogging. I have a few things on my mind that are nagging at me. Not important things, just things. Trivial things that I wouldn't want to bore people with in everyday conversation.
I think this go-around, I'm just going to speed-grade their definitions -- instead of minutely checking every multiple-definition word, I'm just going to make sure they have 16 definitions plus sentences. I had them write stories in class today, using 7 lines from "The Landlady". Once they got over their initial grumpiness about having to work and even think about it first, they were (almost all, I'm sure) busily putting together some pretty crazy original stories. That's definitely a writing assignment worth repeating sometime.
Oh, ha ha. I just realized I'm giving them a quiz tomorrow on the story, and I haven't even put it together yet. It shouldn't take me long though - I probably already have a decent quiz on my computer already. It used to be that I could never use the same tests from year to year (well, it's still true with exams). But now that I'm in a school system that doesn't think the English department is the ONLY department that has no use for computers, either in the classroom or for teacher use, I can keep the question banks and old tests, and just alter them as I need. Thank heaven for useful teacher software and computers.
I was going to go to the coffee shop and work on grading those papers, because it would keep me motivated and awake while I worked, but guess what won out? That overwhelming need to take a nap. If I'd gotten there, a healthy shot of caffeine might have kept me awake, but I changed my mind about going. It didn't seem worth the trip across town.
posted by Me at 12:04 AM
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