Ah, Technology

A few years back I started keeping my grades in a spreadsheet instead of by hand in the old fashioned gradebook of yore.  I saved the files on two different flash drives just in case.  This year we are required by the district to use the district's program to keep our grades (so that parents can have access to their children's grades on a continuing basis.)  So I figured out how to make that program calculate my grades the way I want it done and started entering grades into that web-based program; since also using a spreadsheet would be redundant, I only entered the grades in the one program.  Then there were all kinds of vague problems this week with the school's program (called Schoolmaster) and we couldn't get into the system, blah blah.  I got worried that the grades I entered would disappear and that was the only place I recorded them.  So now I am back to using the old fashioned gradebook as a back-up and double-entering grades just in case.  Ain't technology grand?

To the sentences!  As always these are from student work, and my comments are in (   ).

- His body was based on putting revenge onto others.
- The Scarlet Letter portrays symbolism through many different concepts.
- The relationship my parents harbored...
- ... he owned no propriety to live on.
- Things can change in a minuet.  (I wouldn't know, having never danced one myself.)
- He must have always been in his late 20s.  (Lucky guy.)
... self preparing yourself...
- Dimmesdale''s gilt...  (It must have hurt.)
- ...the Black Man, Satin.  (Satan was what she meant, but Satin would be a pretty cool name.)
- During the time Dimmesdale simultaneously self-inflicted pain within himself.
- ... trying to coup with the excruciating pain.
- While I was eating my cake with Morgan's help...  (She ate some cake, or she was feeding the cake to you?  Think about it; this might be important.)
- While writing it where accidental ideas or topics come to mind which makes your writing special and good.  (Much about this "sentence" is "accidental.")
- ...the sperm downer that had helped to conceive me.
- Americans do not recycle their electronics and this is leading to massive increases in dumps.  (Every time I... you know, take a... I think about recycling my electronics?)

Hope all the students and teachers out there are happy to be back at it!

J