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

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

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   Andrea Clark

   March 20, 2017

   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!

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

      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?!

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   midwesternheartindixie

   March 20, 2017

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

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

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

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   smcninch

   March 20, 2017

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

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

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

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4. 

   djvichos

   March 21, 2017

   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.

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

      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!

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   Jen Driggers

   March 21, 2017

   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!

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

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

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6. 

   Akilah

   March 21, 2017

   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?

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      Elisabeth Ellington

      March 21, 2017

      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?

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         Akilah

         March 21, 2017

         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.

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   Katherine Sokolowski (@katsok)

   March 21, 2017

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

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