So Long...

I had four sections of seniors this year, more than I have ever had.  And on one of the end of the year class surveys (quotes from those in a future post) a student mentioned liking my blog.  I have known for a few months now that some of them have found it, and in fact a few are apparently in an odd way amused to see their own sentences posted.  You guys are strange.  So anyway, to any of you seniors who will be graduating, best wishes, good luck, congratulations, yada yada yada...  That said, here are some of your last English paper flubs.  Enjoy!  As always, these are real student sentences and my comments are in (   ).

- This poem has one main theme, adventure and a want for freedom.  (Not a math major.)
- So the idea of Gwendolyn marrying Jack Lady Bracknell finds obscured.
- Love is a connection between two soles.  (That's why married people go through so many shoes.)
- A poetic element allows readers to think about the poem which the message the reader thinks is being sent is created.  (Deep?)
- He feels out the forms that are required by the government.
- The society is living where bureaucracy is taken into effect.
- This quote has a lot of meaning that is meant to be interpreted.  (As opposed to those quotes that are not meant to be interpreted, I suppose.)
- Jack hives a simple life.
- I pity any woman who is maimed to a man called john.
- Contradictory comes into play...  (He's my favorite character!)
- Love and Marriage has been especially emphasized on parts that in matters of love and marriage are unimportant.
- Jack and Algernon altar the truth.  (If you have read The Importance of Being Earnest, this is actually quite astute.)
- They have met for only a day.
- Both Polonius and Laertes believe Ophelia's relationship with Hamlet is a pleasure one.
- The characters consider themselves are really not in any way.  (?)
- None of them are really in love takes time.
- ... there is much more two her...
- ...heirs to the throne must marry someone else who is of royal decent.
- ...him name is Ernest.  (And hims name is also Jack.)
- ...biologically his name really was Ernest.  (No, I think biologically his name is homo sapien.)
- This is as if to say that marriage is like perjury.  (I guess it depends on who you marry.)

I have some more essays to grade, and final exam essays as well, so stay tuned.  And as promised above, fun and interesting comments from end of the year surveys coming up too.

J