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:

6 comments:

The Yellow Dart said...

C'mon, Grinch, tell me you gave him honesty points...

Will said...

A belated Merry Christmas!

Jess said...

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.

Michael5000 said...

Are you saying it isn't unnatural to write an essay at 8 a.m. in the morning?

sybil law said...

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.

blythe said...

hmm. that looks like your handwriting...