No More Teachers! No More Books!

I meant to get to this last week, but time got away from me. This is the last post for this school year of student mishaps. There will be one more post of comments from the "End of Year" surveys I ask my students to complete. As always, my comments are in (    ).

- ...who won a lot of money from the people on the secrete committee. (How do you get on the secrete committee? I assume sweat and tears?)

- The family gets into an unexpected car accident. (As opposed to the planned accidents.)

- Robert Frost uses the use of someone traveling...

- Whenever he'd talk, It's almost as if he's swooning someone. 

- He fist punched her. (Did he then foot kick her as well?)

- More often than not there are multiple different interprets of one piece of work.

- The poem "The Unknown Citizen," by W. H. Auden, is a moderate poem. (He did write some extremist poems, though.)

- He starts to acquire an alcohol problem. 

- He begins to hear a low, dull quick sound that begins to paranoe him. (Spellcheck didn't catch that?)

- The conch no longer ceased to exist. (I'm so confused.)

- Ralph's characterization is pushed and questioned.

- Kino doesn't think about the consonquensizes of his actions. (Wow, spellchecker missed that, too?)

- After a few in counters... (You mean "encounters;" unless there are also out counters, I guess.)

- John Steinbeck wrote many book. (He write book good. He uses words.)

- ... the villagers gain up on Kino.

- Ethan and Mattie are sitting by the ire together. (My grandma and your grandma, sitting by the ire!)

- Students who may want to take a science or technology can also study even deeper into that field by apprenticizing a job. (I remember when I was a new apprenticizer...)

- During 11th grade there were many works of literature that showed the class everything. (Well, looks like 12th grade is a little unnecessary, no?)

- The protagonist makes many choice decisions.

- In many works of literature, topics and themes play hand-in-hand.

I leave you on a bit of a down note. This final pearl of wisdom comes from a final exam:

- Hopes and dreams ruin lives.

That's right, kids. Beware those hopes and dreams.

J