catnapper
03-10-2005, 05:46 PM
Hubby had a project for Black history Month that he made his 7th and 8th grade classes do. Only half the kids handed the projects in - its only two pages double spaced about a famous black person, and he gave them classtime to work on it.
Anyway, he's thoroughly disgusted with the attitudes of his classes about not wanting to do any work. I offered to help him grade the papers. He told me that anybody that handed a paper in, as long as it made *some* sense to go no lower than a B. If it was utter trash, a C-. Is worth 40% their final grade and he desperately need high grades here to pass a lot of kids.
I've been reading these papers, and let me tell you, they are so well written that even I couldn't come up with some of the sentence structure. Thats not to say I think I'm a literary giant or anything, but I definately don't expect 7th graders coming up with them.
I just had one paper that had important terms underlined. I thought "hmmm... these look like they are underlined because they are links" So I logged into google and typed the first sentence. Sure enough, the first entry was word for word for word the whole paper. OKKKkkkkkkk... he's got a zero for plaigiarism. I decided to pick up the pile of A's that seemed fishy to me and typed first sentences in... out of 10 papers so far, 8 are word for word from a website. Sigh. Depressing.
I printed out each site, stapled it to the papers, marked them with zeroes for plagiarism. Hubby just told me to also mark them all with a note syaing "Rewrite in own words and return monday"
Sigh... he's desperate to pass these kids. I think they should all get the zeroes and a teacher detention for trying to cheat.
Anyway, he's thoroughly disgusted with the attitudes of his classes about not wanting to do any work. I offered to help him grade the papers. He told me that anybody that handed a paper in, as long as it made *some* sense to go no lower than a B. If it was utter trash, a C-. Is worth 40% their final grade and he desperately need high grades here to pass a lot of kids.
I've been reading these papers, and let me tell you, they are so well written that even I couldn't come up with some of the sentence structure. Thats not to say I think I'm a literary giant or anything, but I definately don't expect 7th graders coming up with them.
I just had one paper that had important terms underlined. I thought "hmmm... these look like they are underlined because they are links" So I logged into google and typed the first sentence. Sure enough, the first entry was word for word for word the whole paper. OKKKkkkkkkk... he's got a zero for plaigiarism. I decided to pick up the pile of A's that seemed fishy to me and typed first sentences in... out of 10 papers so far, 8 are word for word from a website. Sigh. Depressing.
I printed out each site, stapled it to the papers, marked them with zeroes for plagiarism. Hubby just told me to also mark them all with a note syaing "Rewrite in own words and return monday"
Sigh... he's desperate to pass these kids. I think they should all get the zeroes and a teacher detention for trying to cheat.