Thursday, March 23, 2017

Grading Opinion Essays

Miss maddox can we read lord of the rings

I'm grading essays today. Opinion essays they've had almost two months to learn how to write.

In my opinion that you should read lord of the rings.

Some of my students haven't been able to quite grasp the way to form paragraphs on a google document.

First the book is so entsting

Or that red underlining to the word means it's been spelled incorrectly, even though I've showed all of them individually how to fix it.

If the the movie is good the book is and it has evil parts the book can keep your muscles resting

Some of them haven't even written the essay yet. To be fair, of the 5, 3 are usually in resource during writing and the 4th has trouble coming every day, bless her heart. She got half of her essay written today, though, so that's a plus.

the book can help your reading skills and can help your a.r testing. 

The fifth was going to type hers up, but the computers weren't available and she had a really good story idea that she had to write down before it disappeared into the air forever. Do I know what the story idea was? Nope. Will I find out eventually? Absolutely. She shows me her stories. Then it's my job to come up with ways to help her improve her writing because she is actually good at it.

Next I prefer so you can have good accurse

My other students show me things they've written, too. Sometimes I have to stare at their words for a while before I realize what it is they are trying to say. For example, I've been staring at an essay for an hour and just realized that accurse is supposed to be accuracy. At least I didn't also have to decipher handwriting.

This is a type of book to keep you going.

That student's handwriting is usually very legible, though. Which makes it easier when I'm grading her handwritten things.

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Assuming, that is, that she finishes her sentences.

4 comments:

  1. I love the structure of this -- sprinkling your student voice throughout this piece is clever and makes it really funny. I love too how you talk about all the things that tug at us as we try to move our writers forward.

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  2. Thanks for explaining "accurse" ... Which ... Coincidentally, my phone tried to autocorrect to "accurate" :D
    This is a very fun post! Love it!

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  3. Assuming they finish their sentences! I def

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  4. Once again, you teach me more about one of your students. The challenges you encounter are ones we all face with some of our students. Keep encouraging them to get better everyday.

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