“Gwen Stefani” Explains English 120.
by: scrible77

“Male Me” Explains English 110.
by: scrible77

And just like that, I found my Hidden Point for this week.

Online Fall 120 shell doesn’t have the audio pieces I recorded for each paper/project BUT it does have the PPTs I recently updated with .wav files, etc.

*Idea for 1pm class: Scavenger Hunt. In groups of 2-3, go and find 3 arguments on posters, etc around campus. Report back. Before that, we could do a brief discussion about phrases we are offended by… I should have them read Chapter X (the one about religion) for Thursday with some small assignment… or that could be due next Monday?

I’ve come out from the other side of it all.
Thus far.
There is still a lot on my plate, but I’m okay. I will lessen my load. I will narrow my focus.
I will conquer all.
I’ve already lowered my stress when it comes to watching students’ P5s. I used to get uppity when the projects weren’t perfect or didn’t work, etc., but I’ve calmed myself with all that.
It’s nice.

I have many ideas for the Fall.
Many.
I’d like to have a better focus for the small assignments. I’d like to have everything laid out with Carlin and Sedaris, as I do online with each week’s CB.
And I know it’s possible; already today, I made a more generic list of the Sedaris readings and activities for the P5 packet. What an improvement!

Eng110, 9am: P6, P7 (the Shortfolio), and the Final My Words Test.
Eng110, 3pm: P6, P7 (the Shortfolio) due at 3pm today, and the Final My Words Test.

Eng120, on-campus: Utopia Presentations today at 1pm, Final My Words Test & last CB = Wednesday before midnight.

Eng120, online, two sections: Last week’s assignment – a bonus CB to assess today?
Eng120, online, two sections: Shortfolios due Wednesday, Final My Words Test due Wednesday, and last CB due Wed.

I can’t decide if my online students a) didn’t read Chuck and have no way of figuring out how to mimic him (EVEN with my list of ten items in the Chuck Packet!), b) don’t care to write one last paper arguing something, c) just didn’t want to “get him” and “how he writes in an outside-the-box manner, or d) really do think they are imitating him by just ranting… which isn’t exactly what I had in the Chuck Packet. Yeah. Talk about frustration. And, as expected to some teachers, my on-campus students did well – I assessed their P5s yesterday. Yet, I gotta say that, I didn’t give them much more than the same freaking Chuck Packet that the onliners have and read it ALOUD. Jeezus Pete.

Do I have to read it to my online students too?
Should I even be giving them a list to follow – shouldn’t they ALL have read, by now, the things he does? Name-dropping and odd metaphors and large words?

Ugh.
I have to stop spoon-feeding. Somehow.
However, that means more complaints.
Yikes.

Back to the show.

I wrote recently, in an email to a friend, that I couldn’t wait to be done grading after next week. Because then, like, I’ll have 2-3 weeks of non-grading bliss before… yeah… before summer school. But I cherish those weeks of non-grading-ness. I’ll have to pack and run instead, but still. A brain break, people. A break for the brain – no evaluations, no charts, no points to add up or delete. And, yes, once again, I think I’ll revise my grading strategies with some assignments (if not all) so that it’s a win-win situation. Easy for students to understand, easy for me to complete. Yay.

I’m always super hopeful pre-summer time. I’m going to do this and this and this and this. Ah, I’m such an optimist.

Right now, I’m in the middle of assessing P5s in English 120. I have my on-campus class finished; I have the two online to get to. We have Agawasie Day tomorrow, and then I have my 9am/3pm schedule on Friday; therefore, I should wrap up one online class per day. Totally do-able. Then the final stuff comes in next week. Yep.

Work Day for P6; you are not required to come to class, but with Agawasie Day tomorrow, you may want to finish up P6 and upload it to the correct Dropbox.
P6 is due Friday.
I’ll introduce the Shortfolio & Final My Words Test on Friday as well.
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Students will work on the Shortfolio (the Utopia Project) in class today.
Other things to complete in class today:
—A small handout containing Plagiarism assessment (it’s a campus thing).
—Introduce the Final My Words Test with a handout.
—CB for this week (first in Final Stuff unit) is worth bonus points.
The presentations are next Monday; our last CB/evaluation/reflection* will be assigned next Monday, too.
*I haven’t decided what that will be yet.

Students handed in their My Words (if they hadn’t placed them online under Unit 6 already) and I wrote down who had what for the ABC Experiment. I assigned possibly our last small writing assignment for Wednesday & then they had time to work on P6. P6 is due Friday; I’ll introduce the Shortfolio & Final My Words Test on Friday as well.
Students will work on the Shortfolio (the Utopia Project) in class today and Wednesday; there may be small assignments in class on these two days. The presentations are next Monday. The Final My Words Test and our last CB will be assigned next Monday, too.