Responding to Robinson High School Essays

Overall, I enjoyed this project. It was challenging. I often found myself questioning whether or not I was giving the right advice. I had a difficult time selecting out comma errors- as I am one of those people- who put the comma in when it sounds good. I know, that is bad- yet, I can't seem to correct that problem. Hopefully, I will learn. Anyway, back to the essays- I really liked the essay topics. I thought that the prompts in general were interesting and fun. I know that as a high school student, I would have deeply enjoyed an assigment such as this. As far the as the student's writing- I think that as high school students we all had similar problems. Even as a college student, I sometimes make the same errors. When reading there essays, I tired my best to focus on the prompt, how well it was related in the thesis, and if they gave adequate support for their ideas. I am still very nervous when grading for grammar mistakes, because I do not want to give them the wrong information. It took me at least 3 hours if not more to completely respond and post their essays. I really did enjoy this excercise and believe that is was very helpful to both the students and I. :)