Midweek update

Even though I said last update would be short, it wasn't. So this one WILL be short.

Reece, I'll give you the invite to it this weekend. I will post (on my school Sharepoint site) the rubric that the kids came up with. It'll just tell them what they need to do to get a C- (70%). We'll see how it goes. I'll also post some stories they've done.

Today I had my A4 class show me how they're citing things. We came to a consensus: they will have their work cited on a separate page.

Kyle (the history side of honors 9) and I have hammered over and over and over again how to do parenthetical citations MLA style, and works cited. They have to have those for their 10+ Time Travelers, and because I want these kids to view this not as a research paper, I'm going to be very lenient re: citing.

What I do want them to do is hyperlink the heck out of their stuff. This weekend will be my first grading of their work, and I told them I'd like them to go BACK through the stories they've written thus far and see if they can link to sites they already have (due to their Time Traveler assignments).

It's going good. I have one or two who haven't done a single bit, but they're also failing both history/english classes and they haven't done much of anything all year. And the worst part is that even AFTER we talk to the parents, they still want them

Nevermind. I'm just rambling now. So 3 weeks (3 weeks tomorrow) in and it is looking very very good. They've figured out how things go, now they're beginning to focus on the stories. And so far I am absolutely happy with them. I'll tell you the great fuzzy stories in weeks to come (like the girl who really hasn't done great work on papers thus far, but she is PSYCHO good with her wiki. I mean it's freakin' SICK how good it is).