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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Keeping Up</title>
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		<title>Mailbag I: The Paper Load</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My seventh grade web site has been up since 1997, and I have received quite a few e-mails over the years. Many people have questions. I try to answer all the questions (and I really appreciate the kind words), but I&#8217;m sometime sort of lame about returning e-mails (I don&#8217;t answer the phone much either &#8211; and I will never own a cell phone).  Since many of the questions are about the same things, I sort of kept writing the same e-mail over and over. Now I have this blog thing. I can answer the most common questions for everyone, all at once. 1. &#8220;How do you keep up with everything?  It seems like you have a lot of activities and writing that has to be graded (outside of the CPS stuff) that would start to be overwhelming&#8221; Ummm. That depends on what you mean by &#8220;keep up.&#8221; I am often laggy about returning work. However, I can buy time as it were, as I lag on grading, by pulling examples from each class, making overheads, and grading them live in front of the kids. We use the rubric for that assignment (always use a rubric, and always give it [...]]]></description>
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