4/19/12

Playing Detective

I have been teaching Detective Fiction this year. See if you can find the sentences from that class. As always, these are from student work and my comments are in (  ).

- After the fish ran away... (Those were some strange fish.)
- She dreams of being a hero who is coragus and brave.
- Eros usually occurs in the first stages of a romantic relationship between a man and women. (You bet it does.)
- (This was the title of a Definition paper) The Many Meanings and Uses of the Word Screw
- My impressions of (Sherlock) Holmes are that he is observant, intelligent, and slightly crazy.
- In the end life ends. (Forgot to take your Prozac today?)
- The story describes a young women's decent into insanity.
- Elisa only wishes that she wasn't straddled down by her own gender. (Did we read the same story?)
- In a plane the passenger isn't able to change its destination as easily as a driver in their own car.  (Seems self-evident, but thanks for the reminder.)
- "The Yellow Wallpaper" through the dialogue through both the male and female perspective, and through symbolism.
- Her husband prescribed her a lay down cure. (It's the rest cure, but ok.)
- While they are praying the children get a little restless and the grandmother told them to go outside in Spanish. (I can only go outside in English, and sometimes in French.)
- Her future is not so hopefully.
- Sherlock Holmes is very perspective.
- Arthur Conan Doyle has written many stories with the repeating detective, Sherlock Holmes.

My 11E class just finished their magazine projects. As part of them the kids write their own brief "staff member biographies." One of them indicated that this particular student was the real "Most Interesting Man in the World," you know, from the ads. Anyway, he claimed of himself that he "made 'close' count in things other than horseshoes and hand grenades." I wonder if that means if you're close you can now get the cigar.

J