I made my goal and recorded scores for 1,019 students. Now, some were entirely blank or off topic, and not all of the students' books had writing in them (some had art...one had a list of NFL teams...), but I recorded scores for 1,019 students, which is what I mean when I say "I read over 1,000 essays in a week ( Read more... )

I've been having thoughts this week as I read essays--Wuthering Heights essays in particular--as I thought about how the students didn't understand what they were talking about because they didn't understand pre-modern adoption (or the past or present position of gypsies in Europe ( Read more... )

170 essays for a 5-day total of 910. I am SO going to make my goal of 1,000+!!!Interestingly, getting up this morning was easy...but the rest of the day was HARD...I read SLOoooowwwwly for most of the day and felt like I was guessing at scores and more uneven than any other day of the reading, and I was twitchy and sleepy and sore and just...blah ( Read more... )

Today: 190 essays for a 5-day total of 740. Two more days!

I'm taking care of myself: exercise every morning, yoga every evening, a massage after the reading is over, eating good food. I'm quite proud of all of that.

BED. TIME.

Getting up this morning was really, really hard (so was, oddly, getting to sleep last night). I fell back asleep and only woke up when my phone (aka alarm clock) fell out of my hand onto the carpet ( Read more... )

I just got invited to be an AP English Literature Reader in Louisville again this year! I'm SO EXCITED!!!!

I am home ( Read more... )

I am at spacekid77's house ( Read more... )

I scored 115 papers today (the guy next to me did 200). I am very pleased with myself. I also really, REALLY like the Henry VIII passage (Wolsey's reaction to his dismissal) that was the prompt for the question I'm scoring. I think the last count we had (earlier today) was that 29,000 essays have been scored so far...and we're like 9% of the way ( Read more... )

I got in to Louisville last night with no problems ( Read more... )