Day One - The Reading Begins

A gorgeous day in Louisville - too bad I had to spend it inside reading essays. The upside is that I'm reading Question 3, commonly known as the Open Essay, where students can use the novel or play of their choosing. There are eight readers and one table leader at each table, and we're working longer hours this year: 8 AM to 5 PM (that's an extra 90 minutes/day). One MILLION essays will be scored this week, and I've knocked out 102 of them so far. Decent essays so far, including one that was way off topic, but extremely creative. Can't say I've read many essays that featured an imaginary novel and were written in English, Spanish, and binary code. Good times.

More tomorrow.