I realized I was going to be grading 25 students’ seven papers, plus four rewrites in 21 days of school. That would mean I would have over 250 papers to grade. I decided that was crazy. So I went in and got copies of other people’s summer syllabi.
We’re now going to be doing four papers. Two research papers, about six pages, and two formal essays, two to three pages long. We’ll still have two rewrites, of the long papers. And 14 read-write journal entries. And some pop quizzes just for fun.
I had to re-do the entire syllabus after it was already printed, but it is okay. It’s done now.
And it will be Heaven for me and the students.