10/5/10

Long Enough

I am unable, because of the district's web filter, to access my blog from school. You know, because of all its objectionable content. I finally remembered to bring home my notes so I could type this up. A quick aside: my students often include in their introductions meaningless statements of the obvious. For example, in a Compare / Contrast essay they will write something like, "While these two things are different, they are also the same." Or in a personal narrative they might write, "Everyone has parents." It's like they need someone next to them who can say, "Duh, really?" every time they write some meaningless drivel just to fill space. Kind of like the drivel of the last few sentences of this blog. Anyway, as always, these are sentences taken from student work, unedited, and my comments are in ( ).

- Reading and writing play hand in hand with each other. (How nice of them.)
- Without the thesis, the key idea and writing can not be well written.
- Grendel is afraid of Beowulf because he has never seen a man who has been able to out strengthen him.
- ...other than smoking, I knew of no other factor that could have triggered her stroke. (Must have been the decades of smoking then. Go figure.)
- No linger was the room filled with fake light.
- My parents are loving, hard-working people with gray hairs in their forties. (If their gray hairs are 40, how old are his parents?)
- I experienced a great change within my mental ways of thinking. (Department of Redundancy Department)
- Dimmesdale took an oth of celibusy. (Well, he did get busy.)
- He and Hester had adultry.
- Dimmesdale held the stance of a Reverend. (That is a hard stance to be in for too long.)
- Beowulf has massive amounts of honor. (Honor out the wazoo, really.)
- I always suspect him to win.
- His heroicness effect simpathy for him.
- Emotions are feelings in which others can't see. (Uh huh, sure they are.)
- When Beowulf goes to die he is all like I'm going to die in pride. (And then the dragon was like, Step off dude! And Beowulf was all, You step off!...)

I should have more very soon. My stack of papers to be graded grows by the day.

J
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1 comment:

  1. Infinite JestOctober 8, 2010 at 3:00 PM

    The final comment reminded me of my experience this morning: Overheard conversation of people who have obviously never worked for an hourly wage, while trying to buy coffee, 8:57am.

    Totally Fashionable Female, Suspected Film Student: I couldn't believe it, it was like, like it's like 9 in the morning and there's all these people on the train. It's like, what?

    Totally Fashionable Male, Suspected Film Student: I know, like, way crowded. I mean, like, I guess it's still like a regular work day, right?

    Totally Fashionable Female, Suspected Film Student: I dunno. I guess, like. But I was like, whoa.

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