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June 07, 2006
AP Reading - Day 6
We lose track of what day of the week it is. We only know how far in we are, and how far we have to go. As of noon today, our room of roughly 305 readers had read 72% of the papers we have to read for the whole of the week. Yesterday, we read 54,000 essays, or 20% of the week's total in a single day. The statistics are impressive. More impressive to me is our accuracy rating: we are within hundreths of a point, the most accurate of the three rooms, as these things are measured. And we are reading on day six with the same accuracy we read on day 2, indicating that even though we are going faster, we are not sacrificing our quality.
Cool.
Tonight's outing was a visit to the next over local tourist attraction, the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse. It's all a historic site, all a museum. I climbed to the top of the tower to get this (among other) shot(s).
In its day, the light from this lighthouse could be seen 19 nautical miles out to sea. That's a long way. It was also very near here that the Commodore sank. The Commodore, literature fans, is the gunrunner upon which Stephen Crane was a crewman. He survived the wreck, and the experience inspired his story "The Open Boat." The light they aimed for was the Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse. No wonder AP Readers in English travel here year after year...
This will be the last year, though. AP English is moving next year to Louisville, Kentucky. Seems we have outgrown the capacity of this resort town and need to find bigger digs. So to the home of the Derby we go. I hope I get invited back. This has been a really interesting experience, and I've learned a lot from it. More about that later.
Posted by cageyer at June 7, 2006 10:05 PM