What I’m Doing Instead of Commenting on Student Papers: Slice of Life 20/31 #sol17

slice of life

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone

Putting on a load of laundry

Restocking paper products in the bathroom

Counting the number of papers I have to grade

Searching for the right pen to begin the job

Taking a snack break

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone

Moving some stacks of books to a different room

Picking out an outfit for tomorrow

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone

Organizing the papers into separate stacks

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone

Taking the dog out

Seeing what the cats are up to

Reordering the papers into different separate stacks

Taking photos of the cats

Refilling pet water bowls

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone

Finding a better pen to begin the job

Cleaning the stove

Scrolling through Facebook

Checking my phone


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14 responses to “What I’m Doing Instead of Commenting on Student Papers: Slice of Life 20/31 #sol17”

  1. Andrea Clark Avatar

    Ha! I loved the repetition of your poem. It definitely feels like that when you are procrastinating on grading students’ writing. I can relate. It sounds like you were otherwise productive!

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      It’s amazing what boring tasks suddenly seem interesting to me when I’m supposed to be commenting on student papers. I mean, cleaning the stove?! Really?!

  2. midwesternheartindixie Avatar

    Ha! I love this! I’m totally stealing this for today.

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      Pretty sure I could write a version of this every week because I am ALWAYS putting off commenting on student papers or blogs!

  3. smcninch Avatar

    Love this. I could totally add “Commenting on Slices!”

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      I did plenty of that over the weekend too! Should have been commenting on papers. Instead commented on 60 slices!

  4. djvichos Avatar

    Facebook and phones, what did we ever do to distract ourselves without them?! When I was reading your poem, I felt a little bit like was scrolling through a feed, and just waiting for those words to pop up again.

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      I don’t know! If I’m going to procrastinate, I wish I’d do something more valuable with my time than scroll through Facebook or check my phone!

  5. Jen Driggers Avatar

    I love this. I totally could’ve written something like this when I was writing report card comments. Saving this structure for a future post!

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      The struggle is real! Glad I’m not the only one!

  6. Akilah Avatar

    I spent tonight not grading papers, so I could totally relate to this. And I also count papers that need grading and wonder why, why, WHY I do it. I mean, seriously. WHY?

    1. Elisabeth Ellington Avatar

      Isn’t it so mysterious? I separate mine into little stacks. Stacks of hope, I call them, because I calculate how many papers I need to grade each day to get them back to students on a designated day. And once I make the little stacks of 4, 5, 10, then I promptly get up and do something else. Because hey, I counted out stacks! Surely I’ve done my work for today?

      1. Akilah Avatar

        Stacks of hope is brilliant. Why did I never think of this? And, yes, separating into stacks gets you once step closer so it totally counts as work.

  7. Katherine Sokolowski (@katsok) Avatar

    Hmm, it’s like you’ve been in my house. 😊 Love the repetition here.

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