Yesterday, my students and I discussed what constitutes an oxymoron. I showed them a list of examples. One of the phrases was “working holiday.”
I could have shown them this picture to give them a visual to connect with…
Yep.
That’s what I brought home with me…nearly 200 assignments to grade.
Sort of.
The kids took a test using my SMART responders, which I absolutely LOVE because the computer grades the tests for me thanks to a handy little thing called an ANSWER KEY!!
Still, I had to go through and enter the grades into my digital gradebook.
I also had to grade my students’ weekly Text Connections Sheets and their Life in Prison question packets, which they completed as I read the book aloud.
Added to that were their Figurative Language booklets…a summative, project-based assessment for this unit. Nearly half of my students turned in the project early.
I’m grateful, though, because that means that I won’t have many items to grade next week…just three more assignments, including the final exam.
Fortunately, I graded everything, only using up five hours of my holiday weekend.
Later today or tomorrow, I’m going to cook up their final exam and then create a few review exercises in my SMART Notebook.
Sigh.
Six and a half more days until I’m done grading. Seven and a half more days until I am completely free (loosely typed, of course) for the summer.
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