Just a few days until February break. I am very looking forward to it. The halls of the old high school are wearing me out these days. Oddly I think that the lack of snow this winter here in our area has made the students more stir crazy than usual. We have only had one snow day. The skiers and snowboarders haven't been able to hit the slopes as much, and there hasn't been any good sledding or snow ball fight weather. And it just isn't as fun to do doughnuts in the parking lot when there is no ice or snow. Thus I think the upstate New York kids have too much pent up energy this winter. Anyway, on to the fun. As always, these are from student papers and my comments are in ( ).
These first two are from vocabulary quizzes on which the students were to define words as they were used in a poem.
- heaves = throws / pukes (Nope, wrong usage; but good to see you're thinking.)
- debauchee = can't get enough (I think I gave this one partial credit.)
- ...the Salem which trials. (Witch ones?)
- Society judges people on a set of criteria on which to judge people based on what is socially acceptable. (I'll keep that in mind.)
- I have a good morale conscience.
- Some things so beautiful should not be anilized.
- She saw these girls doing witchcraft and witchy like things. (Yeah, they really stepped over the line when they stooped to witchy like things.)
- These two stories have struggles between the color of who they are and where they are at.
- Nearly half of the 19 million new STDs each year are created upon people aged 15 - 24 years old.
- ...a sailor named Jim that happened to be an impalsive alcoholic.
- ...lived a seldom life.
- Banquo gets supuisus that Macbeth killed the king.
- There are more job opportunities if you have fluency in multiple languages, especially Spanish, English, and France. (And which are you fluent in?)
- One of the most famous detective fiction writers was Edger Allen Po. (Come on, his name is right there on the cover of the book!)
- He was at the begging of his manhood. (I think we've all been there, right guys?)
Until next time,
J
