Been a While!

I have been so busy I have not had time to post anything recently, but I have been keeping notes none the less. And boy do I have some gems. These are from multiple sources, senior papers, junior papers and tests, etc. As always, these are actual student sentences, unedited, and my comments are in ( ).

- Over time parents are going to have a harder time in controling there childs.
- Some similarities about the passages are that passage one and passage two is the characterization that the parents cared about the child.
- Passage two uses the literary element imagery to show the importance of imagery.
- The father is very admiration to his daughter.
- This leads to a fall sense of security. (As opposed to a winter sense, I guess.)
- ...it became a costume to share a cigarette.
- They asked themselves if it was worth healthy.
- A triangle can also be used to solve for what the area of a triangle is.
- A best friend is someone who universally is awesome. (Agreed!)
- Society told Huck to be "whatever" about slaves. (Ok, whatever.)
- Huck finally catches back up to Jim and hops on his raft while asleep. (I have never been able to hop in my sleep.)
- Pap hearts Huck.
- Pap is also a many head. (This was in a paper, and she actually meant "meany-head.")
- The raciest comets in this book... (The "most racist comments" is what was meant, but I wonder what that comet looks like.)
- Huck must foe-fill his priority.
- Marriage is the last step in a couple's marriage. (You have no idea how many of my students work for the Department of Redundancy Department.)
- There are thirty five states that still participate in death penalty.
- Sex education will provide more information to the students so they will be more aware of the causes of sex. (There is more than one cause of sex?)
- About forty years ago people would look at strip clubs as profound places to go. (Deep?)
- Melanoma can be just as deadly as skin cancer. (I think that's because it IS skin cancer...)
- Alcohol can cause death which is a more serious symptom of drinking.
- Lowering the drinking age might help stop the amount of underage dreaming. (What is the legal dreaming age?)
- Huck has been taught that helping runaway slaves is stealing, which is theft. (And akin to robbery, which is like larceny.)
- Condoms can help teens be successful. (Yes, that was the whole sentence. And I say, much success to you, condom-wearing teens.)
- It's like the saying two right make a wrong.
- Same sex marriage should be aloud. (I disagree. I think same sex marriage should be very quiet.)

That is it for now, but I have another list that came entirely from grading the Regents exams last week, so stay tuned...

Jeremiah