A Little Now...

...and more later. Our daughter was born on June 23rd, so I have been busy. But I have a stack of quotes gleaned from end of the year papers and tests that I shall parcel out in several posts. Here is the first. These are from various places, though many are about A Separate Peace or The Great Gatsby. As always my comments are in ( ). Enjoy...

- A dream can only be lived if it exists. (?)
- Finny is seen as being higher up, and above everyone else, not only physically but with his mental thinking. (As opposed to what other kind of thinking?)
- Myrtle took things out of control.
- Daisy is characterized as having a mouth full of money. (There is a line in The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby says Daisy's voice is full of money. But I like this image, too.)
- Tom acts stupidicly.
- Even though Daisy is a fine wife for him, Tom has to please himself with poor people.
- Ephscott Fitzgerald (This would be the author of The Great Gatsby.)
- To get Finny to not be good at life Gene pushes Finny out of a tree.
- Gatsby lost a great amount of money because he never obtained it.
- In the begging of the store the was are car weark. (Let me just say, I have some 11th grade students whose grammar and spelling are this bad and worse, but I don't post many of their sentences because it's just too easy...and sad.)
- The poem's use of imagery makes this poem very dimensional.
- Gene learns stuff about himself.

The following are from Regents Exam essays. The Regents being the 11th grade state English test.

- There is always something that allows you to be able to recall a memory with vividity.
- One of the most important things in are persons life is there memories.
- When you are younger most of your memories are at home. (That's where I keep all my memories.)
- He thought his plan was flawless, until the irony kicked in. (I hate it when the irony kicks in.)
- ...the descrimination the man received...
- ...the person who is most lonleyiest...
- They soon got eloped.
- This moment in the novel really defys Huck as a character.
- People are clueless of what they don't know. (The Don Rumsfeld theory of knowledge.)
- Juror number eight does not want to convict the suspect to death.

That is it for tonight. I have much more, including comments from my end of the year surveys, which is actually the first thing I posted way back on Share Nicely.

Jeremiah