We had a very interesting week this week. In an effort to entice the kids to read non-AR books, our MS has developed a new promotion. The kids will be allowed to read non-books and write a book review/summary. They will then be awarded AR points for the book. Well, within the first week, we had a student plagiarize an entire paper. She copied the review from Amazon and turned it in. . . with all links blackened out with marker! She even wrote on the paper, "please excuse my spelling errors," to try to cover herself. Our MS was flabbergasted! He is willing to read all of these summaries which adds so much more work to his already full plate and was rewarded with plagiarism within the first week! He shared his findings with the classroom teacher who is in the process of setting up a parent conference...more news to follow:)
We also worked on my reference order.....which is turning in to so much more work than I had planned for!
Kennedy Elementary School
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