5/24/10

What Field Exactly?

I hate in May and June when my classes are half empty because everybody goes on field trip after field trip. Today I was missing about 20 students between two of my classes because of an AP Physics field trip; Physics? What are a bunch of physics students doing in a field? Anyway, three other seniors decided to skip my class and spend the whole period in the library. Did they think the librarians wouldn't see them? I was not amused. (If any of you three are reading this blog, I am coming for you! Guess who will have speaking parts for the rest of Hamlet!!) To the sentences! These are all from student papers and my comments are in (  ).

- (From a student journal, and the Department of Redundancy Department.) This chapter was hard for me to understand, especially considering that it was hard for me to understand.
- Krebs no longer wants to go out with girls and fun.
- Krebs goes through the notion of life.  (Whose notion I don't know.)
- He started to just go through the notions of life. (Who copied who I wonder.)
- Aunt Georgiana illusioned herself into thinking she was in love.
- These concepts play a negative role in the two characters.
- Authors would convey their ideas of life to the reader. (They would, if only there was a way.)
- The relationship between a man and a woman is a never-ending element of life. Even the Bible includes this relationship. (Even the Bible? You don't say.)
- "The Chrysanthemums" is probably based before women's rights. (Wait, there's another one about the same story.)
- The story is set back sometime in history, perhaps even before women's rights. (So neither of these students bothered to figure out the time period of the story within a hundred years or so, and they think of "women's rights" as a moment in history at which everything changed. Ah, the study of history.)
- John is keeping his wife from expressing herself and letting her have an outlet for her insanity. (We all need an outlet for our insanity.)
- She has been sworn to bed rest. (Swear you will not get out of bed! SWEAR!)
- He was a silent character with large emotions. (How large, exactly?)
- Every author in any story you read has a purpose to what their writing about. (Thanks for the heads up.)
- The story doesn't always have to be in someone's point of view, it could be that the point of view of the people can effect the story. (Air...I...need...air...)
- Their relationship reveals that they don't have a relationship at all.
- (The following phrase was used by two students to pinpoint a period in the past.) ...back in the day...
- In life violence can errupt out based on events that have occured. (Good to know.)
- ...a female girl... (As opposed to?)
- Many stories have a single climactic moment that reviles something about life or the world.
- Many young children have life changing experiences that of which change who the are. (1. So, life changing experiences result in change. Deep. 2. Could you write a sentence that of which I understand.)

Now if you will excuse me, I need to skip class and sit in the library. No, wait, that would be my students.

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