Day 265

May 17, 2010 MS Insights

Today was a mess! UGH! I have 4 students who are “cheating” on their papers. 2 of them copied each other, 1 copied from the internet, and 1 copied from their parents. Blah. It is a huge issue, and harder yet to solve since we are a collaborative school and it makes it hard. Then, parents blame me! Telling ME I need to prove their child’s paper was like another student’s. Insane.

We are in the thick and ugly of our final products. Stressing me out! 1st hour doing the Lit Magazine, which is going to be awesome I hope. 3rd hour Passage Portfolio Presentations…this has gotten ugly. Expi is working on their dual persuasive essays. 6th hour is working on final newspapers. PLUS it is all about next year. Selecting books, selecting LA pertinent assignments, fitting them into Expis, figuring out what training and work I need to do for YB. How to incorporate CW, NP, and YB into next year’s LA classes. It is crazy!!