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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Mar. 9th, 2011 09:49 pmI couldn’t really sleep today, I kept waking up and having light nap time dreams. I had to wake up at 6:15 to get to work today because of mid semester folder review (this is for my Writing Class, I’m really glad Local College is on Spring Break this week). So my head was wacky all day and I was in a little slow motion.
But I did manage to get ready for folder review. Because I’ve been teaching in the writing program for a while I’m very confident in my comments and grades, so folder review is more about talking about trouble students who might fail and how to try to help them. Experience really helps. So in the morning I graded the papers for those students and got those folders really ready. One of the folders gave me a paper cut for my troubles.
Folder review itself went really well. I’m going to require three students to get tutoring (it is free and all students really should just take advantage of it). And I’m putting five on warnings. Hopefully, those students can get it together.
After the folder review I got lunch and slowly graded the rest of the midterms and got ready for tomorrow’s class too. I need to grade more papers, I want to return folders for one class tomorrow and the other section can wait until after Spring Break. Oh, I’m so ready for Spring Break from the writing class. I like this class but I’m just tired and need to recharge.
I did read the article from February “National Geographic” on Paris underground . Not the metro, the system of underground caves and other open spaces. That was just fun. I liked the visual of all the tunnels underneath Paris from the 12th century limestone quarries that used to be outside the city. Now they are under it with catacombs and other spaces. It is fun to think of the whole other world under a city. I remember going to Bath when I was doing a Semester Abroad in England and going to Roman baths and standing on what used to the be the city level and now was buried a few stories below the town. I like the idea of cities growing and having this whole universe beneath our feet.
Shuttle “Discovery” just came back from its last mission .
But I did manage to get ready for folder review. Because I’ve been teaching in the writing program for a while I’m very confident in my comments and grades, so folder review is more about talking about trouble students who might fail and how to try to help them. Experience really helps. So in the morning I graded the papers for those students and got those folders really ready. One of the folders gave me a paper cut for my troubles.
Folder review itself went really well. I’m going to require three students to get tutoring (it is free and all students really should just take advantage of it). And I’m putting five on warnings. Hopefully, those students can get it together.
After the folder review I got lunch and slowly graded the rest of the midterms and got ready for tomorrow’s class too. I need to grade more papers, I want to return folders for one class tomorrow and the other section can wait until after Spring Break. Oh, I’m so ready for Spring Break from the writing class. I like this class but I’m just tired and need to recharge.
I did read the article from February “National Geographic” on Paris underground . Not the metro, the system of underground caves and other open spaces. That was just fun. I liked the visual of all the tunnels underneath Paris from the 12th century limestone quarries that used to be outside the city. Now they are under it with catacombs and other spaces. It is fun to think of the whole other world under a city. I remember going to Bath when I was doing a Semester Abroad in England and going to Roman baths and standing on what used to the be the city level and now was buried a few stories below the town. I like the idea of cities growing and having this whole universe beneath our feet.
Shuttle “Discovery” just came back from its last mission .
