I've been noticing/remembering that High School teachers are a lot more forgiving than their college counterparts. Today the 11th graders took vocab quiz number two, a quiz that is on the same piece of paper as quizzes one and three. There are a bunch of students that either hadn't taken quiz one or didn't get the vocab words on Monday; instead of being s.o.l. like you would be in a college class, the students just push themselves further back and back.
Schultz gave the students the compare/contrast essay that Jamie gave her students yesterday, and we spent most of the day in the computer lab. I tried to help as much as possible, because I can probably write a paper better than most people in this class.
Snobbery aside, I am impressed by how quickly they all write. The paper is due Friday at midnight and many of them had a half to a full page at the end of the day. I don't think I would be able to jump so quickly into a writing assignment, even one so easy. I think that's either the low expectations of high school or the high expectations and pressure of college.
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