Lab notebooks were due on Thursday. Nine of my kids were going to be gone for an FFA judging contest. They were told on Monday to turn their notebooks in on Wednesday.
They were told again on Tuesday. I wrote it on the board so they wouldn't forget.
And on Wednesday, again, they were reminded.
Guess how many turned in their notebook?
One.
So this morning as I was handing out grade reports, there were a lot of complaints and claims that I never said they had to be turned in early.
Now, I rarely lose my temper, especially in class, but today*... well, I launched in to a pretty good tirade on responsibility and making an effort and how this is not MY learning, but theirs.
There was a pretty stunned silence. Then, "so can we turn our notebooks in now?"
No. No you can't.
But here is what you can do. You can make an appointment either before school or during parent conferences on Thursday and you can defend your notebook. It's going to be just like a whiteboard session. You will tell me about the lab. You will describe your results. You will interpret the relationships between the pressure, temperature, volume and number of particles of a gas.
Once you have convinced me that you didn't just copy your lab analysis from someone else, then you can turn in your notebook.
*What can I say, I helped my dad harvest all weekend and was up all night with a sick baby.
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