A long, productive week
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I've written just over five thousand words of a novel based on our Ironclaw campaign which just ended. For those interested, get yourselves on the members list of the community riddocksdawn to read it more or less as it's being written. I appreciate comments, though I don't promise to take all suggestions. The reasoning is that since I didn't create most of the characters, it's only fair to give the players some input into how I portray their creations, at least initially. So far![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redstorm has risen to the challenge nicely.
I've marked everything I've got for my kids for math, which means I'm two-thirds ready to write a report card in it. Not a single kid got an A for the Patterning strand this term. Only one even came close to getting it. There are a fair number of B's, though, so I'm not upset about it. My standards are where they should be; it's the quality of the kids' thought processes which was not up to par. This week's job: get at least two marks for a Number Sense and Numeration strand, so that I can mark the third strand by the first of November. Also, my literacy group has a book report due Tuesday. I'm not looking forward to this. I haven't read most of the books they did, and reading a book report for a book you haven't read yourself is a painful experience. I have reason to believe I won't understand half of what they write.
I need to send home a note with my lit group about spelling homework. This past week, less than a third of the class completed the homework, which is pathetic by any standards. Rather than writing in any organizer, I'm sending a note home detailing what is involved in spelling homework and asking parents to check it on Thursday night. If a lot are still missing next week, I'll have to make phone calls.
I have finally done some marking in social studies, music, and art. One of the nice things about performance subjects is that marking can be as simple as watching three kids each lesson to determine who's doing what they ought to be doing. A couple of theory exercises and I've got a music mark.
I haven't played a single game of Settlers online since last Monday, two days before beginning work on my book. (Working title is the Voyage of the Riddock's Dawn, but that will not be the final title. Any suggestions?)
Elizabeth appears to have developed a fear of being left alone in her room. She spent an hour screaming in there before going down for a nap. She was alone in a familiar place, with the blind half-up so she wasn't in the dark, and she screamed ad infinitum. I sat in the next room and typed "Chapter III: The Plot Hook" (working title only) through it all. It's a pretty good chapter, though I threw in an extra hook and I'm not sure yet how it's going to play out. I'm not sure if it's a good thing that I don't remember a lot of the details about our first months of this campaign, two years ago. On the one hand, it would be nice to have journals and details. On the other, I get to play with it more this way.
I posted a poem and started a trend. I reread poems I haven't looked at in years.
All in all, a good week.
I've written just over five thousand words of a novel based on our Ironclaw campaign which just ended. For those interested, get yourselves on the members list of the community riddocksdawn to read it more or less as it's being written. I appreciate comments, though I don't promise to take all suggestions. The reasoning is that since I didn't create most of the characters, it's only fair to give the players some input into how I portray their creations, at least initially. So far
redstorm has risen to the challenge nicely.I've marked everything I've got for my kids for math, which means I'm two-thirds ready to write a report card in it. Not a single kid got an A for the Patterning strand this term. Only one even came close to getting it. There are a fair number of B's, though, so I'm not upset about it. My standards are where they should be; it's the quality of the kids' thought processes which was not up to par. This week's job: get at least two marks for a Number Sense and Numeration strand, so that I can mark the third strand by the first of November. Also, my literacy group has a book report due Tuesday. I'm not looking forward to this. I haven't read most of the books they did, and reading a book report for a book you haven't read yourself is a painful experience. I have reason to believe I won't understand half of what they write.
I need to send home a note with my lit group about spelling homework. This past week, less than a third of the class completed the homework, which is pathetic by any standards. Rather than writing in any organizer, I'm sending a note home detailing what is involved in spelling homework and asking parents to check it on Thursday night. If a lot are still missing next week, I'll have to make phone calls.
I have finally done some marking in social studies, music, and art. One of the nice things about performance subjects is that marking can be as simple as watching three kids each lesson to determine who's doing what they ought to be doing. A couple of theory exercises and I've got a music mark.
I haven't played a single game of Settlers online since last Monday, two days before beginning work on my book. (Working title is the Voyage of the Riddock's Dawn, but that will not be the final title. Any suggestions?)
Elizabeth appears to have developed a fear of being left alone in her room. She spent an hour screaming in there before going down for a nap. She was alone in a familiar place, with the blind half-up so she wasn't in the dark, and she screamed ad infinitum. I sat in the next room and typed "Chapter III: The Plot Hook" (working title only) through it all. It's a pretty good chapter, though I threw in an extra hook and I'm not sure yet how it's going to play out. I'm not sure if it's a good thing that I don't remember a lot of the details about our first months of this campaign, two years ago. On the one hand, it would be nice to have journals and details. On the other, I get to play with it more this way.
I posted a poem and started a trend. I reread poems I haven't looked at in years.
All in all, a good week.