Nothing

This history project is to be worked on in Social Studies class, yet I'm not sure what Christopher has actually worked on in class. It seems he brings everything home -- because we have so much time in the evenings for extra work!?

Today I asked him . . . so what work are you doing in class? He said he looks up sources and goes on the computer. I asked where those sources were and how he could use them on his display board. He said he doesn't write them down. Huh?

He said he could bring his display board to class and work on it and I asked what would you do. He said he didn't know.

What is not connecting in this kid's head? He has a 3x4 foot blank display board. Nothing on it and no idea what is going on it. He's filled out three "note cards" of information based on three sources. That's it.

I don't know why he hasn't figured out he has to do this board. He is going to tutoring next Tuesday afternoon, but who knows what he'll walk away doing.

Tomorrow, in class, he's completing a bibliography page -- I guess of his three sources.

I don't want to help him on this because he needs to learn, but he literally has nothing. Nothing! And the thing is do next Thursday. So he has wasted an entire week of class room time. Nothing has come out of his class. Nothing!

I specifically told him today that tomorrow he will come home with a completed sketch of what the board will look like -- what pictures he wants to include, what labels he will make, what the timeline will look like. I also told him I have no stake in this game. It is his grade, not mine. Did anything connect or will nothing result.

I'm about to go crazy staring at that big ol' white board in my living room.

It is blank. It has nothing.