So I have learned, over the past two days, that I managed to accomplish the one thing I was setting out not to do during my time at the school -- I have been screwing up my students' grades and lives.
Damnit.
The AP class is very upset and with good cause -- they are upset with grades they've received on papers. I asked for very specific things on an essay on Invisible Man. It was meant to be a short essay, only roughly three pages, and focus on comparing three characters' treatment of the Narrator and a chosen subgroup within the community who has been rendered invisible. There was then a final comparison between the Narrator and the subgroup, looking at at least two similarities and a dissimilarity.
On the whole, most of the students didn't really do these things. Despite my best intentions, my directions were apparently unclear and now I need to figure out what I'm going to do. I really -really- don't want to screw things up for them with my time as a student-teacher. I would even say that is the one thing I really did not want. So -- what do I do now? How do I fix this?
I need to fix this.
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