So it was such a big week and today was the day to wrap up and get the projects secured in the drop folder. Finally. The kids had been after school every day this week. Almost everybody is working hard.
But I couldn't go another day. I'm just too sick. I feel bad about it b/c I just left subplans for the test and said "tell the kids to put projects on the Drop folder", but I'll clean up Monday.
I think I need to nap now. So just a couple comments -
1. still need to get the stupid activity log to bg.
2. ran most of the report except period 10 grades on the relationship between sharepoint use and grades. I'll wait, oh, never mind. With just p2 and 7 and grades that kind of just stop at the end of the speak test (but not the project) and don't account for the make-up work that I haven't graded yet, there is about a +.34 correlation between grades and the sharepoint usage. But that's seriously incomplete reporting, so take it with a grain of salt. I wonder, also, if I just stuck in zeroes for no internet connection and 1 for internet connection if there would be a reliable correlation between internet at home and site usage and internet at home and grades. Just a thought. Anyway, that project is pretty close to done, so that's something to be thankful for. Also, the Speak stuff is wrapping up. That's good, too. Of course, that means that there's more to come. Ugh!
I did improve the data tagging on sentence structure and sentence errors - however... I need to switch my hierarchy a bit. Right now, I have it set so that the National and Local standards are broad - grammar, sentences or parts of speech, and the national is specific - fragments or verbs, and the Learning Objective is most specific - phrase fragment or transitive verbs or something. But since the CPS only runs any reports at all on the State Standard and I'm doing week to week testing, well then I want to know with good accuracy what's missing on the review games. PS - the review game this week really showed me that review takes a lot of time. How to speed up review activities and still keep them meaningful?
Where should I go next with grammar? I was thinking that a review is needed for the end of the semester, so I've got to get ready for a logical wrap-up fairly soon. Let me check on what units are left and get back to me later. Also, can I do a mythology and pattern of the mythic hero unit in 10 days?!? I know that I can teach OMAM in 10 days, though perhaps I lose something doing that. But Mythology plus the project in 10 days? I'm gonna have to repeat "I Think I Can" over and over - or maybe just lay out a careful calendar.
I hope I can get some work done this weekend. Amy wants me to burn some CD's of books for her friend, so maybe that will be one way for me to do it. Work while I burn. Right now I need to rest a bit.
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