WEEK EIGHT- Daily Log: Tuesday, April 27, 2007

• Today was a very different day because I spent most of it in Mme. Mercer's office recording marks. I didn't mind doing so because after finishing something as long and tedious as this, I feel proud of myself and the commitment I gave to my work. The first thing that I had to do was to record the grade eights' marks from their own book report. Their book report was a little bit different than the grade six one becaise the grade six's got their own book that corresponded with their learning level and interests. The grade eights on the other hand read one book called "L'Intrigue a Quebec" as a class. They had comprehension questions for every scene they read. I was suppose to divide their overall mark by 3.5 to get a separate mark, which I then recorded beside their names.
• I was then supposed to look at each of the posters that the grade six classes had made to promote their books. It was my job to come up with a mark for each of the posters based more so on effort than art ability. If someone didn't take a lot of time to produce his/her best work then I did not give them a great mark out of ten. If it was evident that they handed in their best work then I gave them a good mark.
• I was then supposed to do the same for all the grade eight title pages and record these marks in a new column. I also had to combine these marks with the marks they earned for doing their vocabulary for every scene; this mark was out of fifteen and combined with the title page marks, out of twenty-five. I found that marking these activities was very hard, because you have to mark the students' work in comparison to everyone else's to be fair. It was an advantage that I didn't know the students so that I wasn't wavered.
• I worked for three and a half hours today.