Well, winter came today. I work in a district where typically a 2-hour delay is the equivalent of a unicorn having brunch with Nessie, but today I received a glorious 5:30 am phone call stating we had a delay. Not a bad way to come back after being gone for two days either I might add.
This day actually turned out to be rather easy, and the 30-minute reduced classes helped quite a bit. My first period seniors must have thought the 2-hour delay made school optional because 11 out of 23 showed up, even though they didn't have to arrive until 9:25. My 11 who actually came thought I was going to give them a free day. Ha! I told them we are going on with the lesson as they know it is the responsibility of anyone who is absent to come see me. (Also, the material is not that hard and finals are a week away. Becuase of our schedule, white/black day students have one less day of instruction, so missing another day was not just an option.) I went over the acceptance and rejection letters with them and they were able to produce their own. I will put my VoiceThread lesson my My Big Campus for the ones who took the day off.
The rest of my classes were given back their persuasive paper rubrics and we went to the IMC so they could review the comments I made on the papers. I also had them fill out a self-evaluation for the paper and ripped them a little bit for being so lazy with their grammar. I have them submit their papers via Google Docs, and unlike Microsoft Word, Docs does not auto correct capitalization errors on the first word of a sentence and I", so a vast majority of them had these very basic errors. Their laziness cost them better grades, and they have no one to blame but themselves. I am looking forward to reading their feedback on their evaluations because I want to know what I can do better next time.
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