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Post by dragonwriter on May 6, 2011 14:14:45 GMT -5
...Because the fun from students/children/teachers never stops.
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Post by kaffymoo on May 6, 2011 14:16:21 GMT -5
*looks for the fun*
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Post by dragonwriter on May 6, 2011 14:17:49 GMT -5
From a friend's student in her literature class:
"The narrator from the yellow wallpaper [sic] is suffering from womens [sic] freedom/rights."
*despairs for future generations*
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Post by kaffymoo on May 6, 2011 14:35:17 GMT -5
Hey, the 16-month-old I nanny for made the connection between cats and lions today. All hope is not lost!
The cat is never called cat or kitty. For E, all cats are called by her cat's name, which is Balda. E loves lions in books and when she sees them, she ROARS and bursts out laughing. Tonight, at the end of E's dinner, Balda wandered into the kitchen and E looked at her and said "Balda? Balda ROAAAAR!" I asked her "Is Balda a lion?" and she said "Balda ROOOOAAAAAAAARRR!" and broke down into gales of laughter. It was an awesome moment.
Coming to a university somewhere in your universe in about seventeen years.
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Post by dragonwriter on May 10, 2011 19:03:59 GMT -5
Apparently Van Gogh lived in "the Neither Lands". Who knew??
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Post by judi on May 11, 2011 12:00:42 GMT -5
well that's neither here nor there.
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Post by insomniac on May 11, 2011 12:12:14 GMT -5
neither land nor sea nor flooding dike shall stay von gogh from making swirly whirly pictures of starry nights!
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Post by kaffymoo on Jul 10, 2011 3:23:15 GMT -5
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Post by dragonwriter on Jul 10, 2011 13:07:49 GMT -5
Bwuaaahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!
;D
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Post by dragonwriter on Jul 18, 2011 14:05:17 GMT -5
Can you guys please tell me how I'm supposed to produce college-level writers in my classes when students still hand in papers written like this? :
"The death penalty, also referred to as capital punishment or capital crime. There has became many debates and Supreme Court cases over this issue."
Then, when students like this get bad grades on their papers, they give me poor evaluations and say I "didn't teach them anything". They're partly right, 'cuz everything I teach them goes right over their heads!! They write at a second or third grade level, so they probably won't be able to grasp or apply concepts like ethos, logos and pathos, or rhetorical strategies, or enthymemes or logical fallacies! One student in my class didn't know the difference between a noun and a verb, and another proudly told me he's never been in a bookstore in his life.
*lays head down on desk and cries*
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Post by bjørn on Jul 18, 2011 14:08:32 GMT -5
You have my deepest simpathy sympaticism sorriness.
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Post by dragonwriter on Jul 18, 2011 14:24:30 GMT -5
You are VERY lucky that I love you so much.
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Post by raynebow on Jul 19, 2011 0:44:04 GMT -5
Well, here's this winner, posted in a pregnant teenager forum that know of... Oh jeez at 15 I could type,spell, and had better english then you. PLEASE learn how to do those things PROPERLY BEFORE the baby is born. He wont learn properly if you cant do it yourself. I'm not trying to be mean but you are also making ALL teen parents look bad. Please go read a grammer book and english book, pull out a dictionary and teach yourself proper spelling,grammer,punctuation,sentencing ,ect.
As for the question. The crib should be up already since your this far along.
EDITED to fix typos, cause I'm Freaking a tired.
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Post by insomniac on Jul 19, 2011 6:45:39 GMT -5
Well, at least it was edited!!!
(and, not to disagree with such erudition, but the 'teen mom' doesn't really have to know how to spell, 'ect.' before the baby is born, newborns are notoriously lax when it comes to punctuation...)
(right now, I'm proofreading a 170 page Masters thesis, the writer is bright enough, but they were warned at some time in their past about run-on sentences, so now they chop up sentences into bite-sized morsels. )
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Post by bjørn on Jul 19, 2011 11:42:01 GMT -5
BOT
Technically I guess my nephew is no longer a student because he graduated a couple months ago, but here's his contribution.
He called Mary a few minutes ago to tell her that not only did he go for swim yesterday, he took his cellphone for a swim, too.
Poor kid really is his father's son; my brother is a walking, unintentional disaster area.
p.s. Sharon - yes I am.
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