Marking Mayhem
27 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in Blogroll, Random Musings, Teaching
So in an attempt to be proactive and actually finish a project, I started editing my blog page. And disaster struck. I lost the lovely header a friend created for me, which was totally unique. And now, I can’t even get it back through my internet history. Nevermind. When the husband comes home, I shall put him on the case.
In June of this year (20
10) I did some marking for AQA English Literature, Higher paper, and it was probably the hardest three weeks of work to date. It’s so hard to keep motivated when the pile of papers just keeps growing in front of you. In the end, I actually marked about 70% of the papers I received in the final 5 days and got a week long extension. I ended up marking 409 papers and thankfully, it’s now paid off. “Paid” being the operative and most important word in that sentence.
During the marking, to keep myself entertained and to avoid trying to kill myself with paper cuts, I started copying funny lines from scripts. Some of them were only funny because I had been marking solidly for four hours, others weren’t funny they were just stupid. Anyway, I’d thought they needed to be immortalised in print…
Poetry:
“Shakespeare uses iambic penetration.” Ahem.
“The reader becomes aroused.” Hmmm.
“I don’t think Shakespeare’s poem is very good because I don’t understand it.”
“I am sorry that I did only one poem of pre-1914 poetry bank. Please mark it all. Thanks.”
Of Mice and Men
“Of Mice and Men is very upbeat and lion-hearted.”
“The ending of not knowing whether George actually got the dream house him and Lennie wanted originally was a cherry on a cake!”
“This is similar to Lennie thinking everything is just dandy, however George feels differently, they are in trouble with the townspeople of Weed, they are short of money and don’t have any ketchup! (ok the last one is a joke but things still look bad)” Clearly this student won’t make it as a stand-up comic.
A kestral for A Knave:
“…as it is set in Yorkshire, some words are not complete because no one completes their words there.” This is true, I live there.
The Lord of The Flies:
“To me this is much like the recent general election, Jack and Ralph have a chance of making a success of the island, however they are both too different and inevitably fail and group is divided and disaster strikes the island.” Very intuitive, we’re all doomed.
Random:
“To conclude, I believe.” Just generally?
“And I’ve ran outa time. 
“ (Yes, the student drew a smiley face, sideways.)
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