Thursday, December 27, 2007
Gifts Abound
While many Americans celebrated Christ’s birthday with an orgy of consumerism and contempt for their extended family, I celebrated Christmas by reading the inspired works of fiction my students submitted as alleged final exams. And although some of you may feel your bounty of gifts included some real “crap” you can’t wait to return, I bet few of you received self-identifying crap like these essays:
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6 comments:
C'mon, Grinch, tell me you gave him honesty points...
A belated Merry Christmas!
My sister is a high school English teacher and always offers snippets of whatever crap comes up on the stuff she's grading. Over Christmas is was vocab and kids using "tantilizing" incorrectly.
Between that and this crap you have to wade through, I can never decide whether to laugh or cry. So I'll laugh through my tears.
Are you saying it isn't unnatural to write an essay at 8 a.m. in the morning?
I second the kid who thinks it's crap to write an essay that early. Or wait - third or maybe fourth it.
I can barely read the handwriting on the first one.
hmm. that looks like your handwriting...
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