It seems as if my whole life revolves around essays here lately. My honors classes wrote timed essays on two of Hawthorne's short stories last week, and I just finished grading all of them today (including the makeup ones). Also my standard classes are beginning a unit on argumentative writing, and the students got to choose their topics today. That was very interesting. Some of the kids were genuinely excited and practically started debating during class and some of the kids were completely uninterested and just choose a random topic off the provided list. There was really no middle ground. I'm excited that many of them seem excited though. Hopefully we'll get through this unit without too much hardship. But as soon as I get the argumentative essays graded, it will be time for me to grade my honors classes' characterization papers! Pray for me! 😁