Venting

I just had to vent because I am steaming right now and I really can't yell here at work.

I had my students put together a group project by acting out certain scenes from Julius Caesar. I gave them almost an entire week to do this and they did not even have to use Shakespeare's wording! My first period's performances looke like crap!!! None of the students had what I told them to have. This was supposed to be a fun and simple mjor grade for them and instead they half-assed it. I spoke with them a nd told them that it was all horrible and that if they wanted to fail the semester and be a sophomore again next year that was fine with me. I can't believe that they would just blow all of this off like they did!

Then, I gave back an essay to a student and he failed it because he wrote an entire paper using a run-on sentence! He tried to tell me that I have to tell him to use punctuation because otherwise he will do what he just did. How can you be in 10th grade and not know to use at least ONE period while writing?! ARRRGGGG!!!!!

Only 29 more days. Only 29 more days. Only 29 more days....