Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.

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Sundays in the Life of a Teacher

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May 4, 8:06 AM

by Erica Jacobs, Education Examiner

That study from the Monthly Labor Board was correct: teachers work Sundays.

My schedule today:

Morning--

marinade ribs with a dry rub for a BBQ (my son is visiting for the first time in months)
correct final papers for my English 302 class at George Mason University
calculate and post grades for that same 302 class (Yay! The semester's over!)

UPDATE AT NOON: Morning work DONE!
Afternoon--

make Chinese pork filling to stuff in dumpling wrappers purchased in an Asian food store. Also make cold noodles with Sesame Sauce. Both of these are also for my son's visit. Three are his favorite foods are potstickers, cold noodles, and ribs.)
Grade final exams for 60 of my Oakton High School students

UPDATE AT NEARLY 5 p.m: The cold noodles are done, and the dumplings are nearly done, but the papers are languishing. Hey--I'm human. I forgot to mention that I never get done all the papers I plan to do. Maybe after dinner....
Evening

meet, greet, and eat with my son
Grade the last 30 final exams for my Oakton High School seniors

This is more grading than on a normal Sunday because both my high school finals (which we give before the AP test) and the end of the GMU semester coincided this week. But there's never a Sunday when I don't work!

UPDATE AT 9:30 p.m: All right, so I'm a failure and didn't complete everything I intended to complete. I did do some of the finals, and whipped up three racks of ribs, 24 pork potstickers, and a massive quantity of cold noodles with sesame. My son was most appreciative. My students will just have to wait until Tuesday for their finals, which won't be a problem because they're taking a government AP test tomorrow. And I did do all the college papers and grades. So all is well!
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Endings

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April 30, 8:22 AM

Last night I taught my last Advanced Composition class of George Mason University's semester. I end the class with a paper on endings--a fitting conclusion that is always ironically juxtaposed with the reality of the last night, when half the class shows... Read More
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