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Right, well, sometimes I just have to face the music:
I am never going to have the Advanced Speaking classes' midterms graded by Thursday, much less tomorrow.
This is just how it is. It is 8.29 on Tuesday night. I was grading tests for 8 hours yesterday. Four hours the previous days. I realized, as I did, several mistakes I'd made - four that I could count* at the time, and possibly more? who knows.
I could not write today. It was my writing day, but I simply could not brain. I could barely function in class - it was good that it was mainly just review-of-tests, because I simply did not have the mental energy for anything more convoluted. Hell, I still don't. I just had to thesaurus "complicated" to think of the word "convoluted". If you know how wordbrainey I am, you will know that that's a bad sign.
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1) not having a previously-established grading system
2) saying "the West" instead of "america" (students took "the West" to mean "the American West, i.e., cowboys and indians)
3) not noting that the source they'd be citing from was not a speech or an article, but a political paper thing (how do you explain the Preamble to the Constitution to non-English speaking non-Americans?)
4) not specifying that the extra credit needed to be words and definitions, not just words
So grading all yesterday, being up til 2 two days ago and getting 6.half hours sleep last night. I took a twohour nap today, and for three hours after it completely forgot that my class for tomorrow? Is a two-parter - last week and this week, Study Abroad and Being Abroad.
So it's 8.35 in the PM before my first Advanced Speaking class tomorrow. What do I do?
It's a good thing I laid groundwork for this last week. Their homework was to pick a city and some places in it (university, restaurant, tourist cite, placetolive) and come to class ready to talk about them.
Maybe have them make posters, introduce the posters?
(Generally my speaking classes are in three major parts. First vocabulary - compiling a stock of words on the board so they can pick from 'em and remember 'em and get thinking about 'em. Two is a smaller activity - groupwork, a survey, a discussion, topical and relevant. Three is the main activity: the last hour/45min of class, all made of talkies, thinkies, and busies.)
So: vocab. Posters are easy. They also make the students work. Maybe I shall posters.
So! That is that.
I had no idea last week how very tired I would be this week. I am so very glad I had them do homework. =_______=
I am never going to have the Advanced Speaking classes' midterms graded by Thursday, much less tomorrow.
This is just how it is. It is 8.29 on Tuesday night. I was grading tests for 8 hours yesterday. Four hours the previous days. I realized, as I did, several mistakes I'd made - four that I could count* at the time, and possibly more? who knows.
I could not write today. It was my writing day, but I simply could not brain. I could barely function in class - it was good that it was mainly just review-of-tests, because I simply did not have the mental energy for anything more convoluted. Hell, I still don't. I just had to thesaurus "complicated" to think of the word "convoluted". If you know how wordbrainey I am, you will know that that's a bad sign.
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1) not having a previously-established grading system
2) saying "the West" instead of "america" (students took "the West" to mean "the American West, i.e., cowboys and indians)
3) not noting that the source they'd be citing from was not a speech or an article, but a political paper thing (how do you explain the Preamble to the Constitution to non-English speaking non-Americans?)
4) not specifying that the extra credit needed to be words and definitions, not just words
So grading all yesterday, being up til 2 two days ago and getting 6.half hours sleep last night. I took a twohour nap today, and for three hours after it completely forgot that my class for tomorrow? Is a two-parter - last week and this week, Study Abroad and Being Abroad.
So it's 8.35 in the PM before my first Advanced Speaking class tomorrow. What do I do?
It's a good thing I laid groundwork for this last week. Their homework was to pick a city and some places in it (university, restaurant, tourist cite, placetolive) and come to class ready to talk about them.
Maybe have them make posters, introduce the posters?
(Generally my speaking classes are in three major parts. First vocabulary - compiling a stock of words on the board so they can pick from 'em and remember 'em and get thinking about 'em. Two is a smaller activity - groupwork, a survey, a discussion, topical and relevant. Three is the main activity: the last hour/45min of class, all made of talkies, thinkies, and busies.)
So: vocab. Posters are easy. They also make the students work. Maybe I shall posters.
So! That is that.
I had no idea last week how very tired I would be this week. I am so very glad I had them do homework. =_______=