What I would have posted about Monday:
I now see why conferences can be a pain in the butt.
In the week's absense from class, have you forgotten how to communicate?
Is this silence meant to scare me?
It's working, but I won't let you know that.
I'll just stare right on back
Untill you crack.
And you will crack.
Because that's the way I roll.
What I AM posting about today:
Class wasn't horribly silent, but they weren't so quick to participate... and I didn't have a media source to jump into conversation with today...
As I grade papers; I've only seen one truly sad piece of writing...
And it was one that made me have to take 20 minutes out for a very quick run before I came back to it.
The student was concerned about his writing during his conference, so we talked about what his options were, how much work he would need to put into his paper, and he left with a smile on his face, and a promise to get going on it...
He arrived late to class Monday when it was due, and, to my horror, gave me a fresh copy of the SAME PAPER HE BROUGHT TO CONFERENCES... If there were changes, they were minimal at best.
I know it isn't for me to give good grades, but for them to earn them.However, I was just shocked that, after we'd discussed the possibilities and he'd come up with a plan, he didn't do any of it.
He also didn't show up to class today for me to ask him about it. Which marks day 3 of his being completely absent... as is his journal due today.
Oh boy. Seems like something heavy is going on in his life.
ReplyDeleteHe turned in a revised draft that was much closer to meeting the paper prompt, and I was please to be able to give up a low B for it!
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