I'm starting to get used to students walking in late. It seems a habit for my bunch that I have little control over....
I waited a few minutes to begin because of said lateness; I just handed out their journals from last class and other assignments that I had graded over break.
I started class with a quick reminder of the schedule of our class. We only have one more official meeting together in which they will present their MGPs and celebrate the end of the semester. I also informed them of the time that they can pick up their graded projects during exam week. I'm beginning to wonder how many people will actually come pick them up.
After this, I had them write their final journal for this project and told them about one other one that they needed to do to fill in the gaps for the final draft. They took a good amount of time to work on these. I was glad.
After this, I talked with them about some of the comments they left me from the survey I took last week. I answered the few that I could in class and then took a survey on the chalkboard activity from last week. They said they didn't like it, but thought that it was a good way for them to work on grammar points that they struggle with.
The final part of class was spent on peer review. I put them in groups of three and gave them a sheet with questions to help them think about what still needed work. A couple of them obviously blew this time off and rushed through it. I made them work with another person's work to emphasize to them the importance of revising their work.
I stayed for writing studio today because Ashley was gone. I worked with her group and talked to them about their projects. It concerns me that they are so confident about their work and don't really want to talk about it, especially because many of them haven't been on task for a majority of this project.
*One thing that really shocked me today was that none of my students had their homework ready for today...NOT A ONE OF THEM!!
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