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I Don't Want To


"But I don't want to go among mad people,"  Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here.  I'm mad.  You're mad."
"How do you know I"m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
~Lewis Carol  Alice in Wonderland

I don't want to go to school today.  It's my fault because I spent too much time grading formative assignments and missing work.  As I mentioned before, I told students I would grade formative assignments during the ISU game.  This didn't happen because the game was too intense (ISU won).  Most of the assignments were graded Sunday; one class was graded yesterday.  I wrote the same comment on all papers that were not finished, "You should have finished this, so I could help prepare you for the summative."

"Yesterday, I received an email from a student who said, "I don't understand what you're trying to say.  I had all weekend...  My mother also isn't understanding either please explain further."  Of course, since we've been focusing on sentences, I couldn't help but notice the run-on.  I replied by saying that I told all students that had until 7pm on Saturday, and I didn't know how to explain it more clearly.    Even lunch I had with a friend on Sunday, involved school talk.  Partly, because I asked her to help me with ideas for teaching verb tense to a couple ELL students in my honors class.  Even I struggle with verb tense, and I'm not sure how to teach it.

Soooo.... I don't want to go to school today.

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LH said…
Ugh. I had a few mornings like that.
7:58 AM
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