With great pleasure and swelling pride, I would like to congratulate both AP 11 and AP 12 for 100% passage rates on their AP Exams! Good for you!
See, I told you the oppressive nature of my magical powers would pay off.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
I, Robot
Most people might guess partial loss of eyesight or dull headache as possible outcomes for a person who has to grade 120 paragraphs and 120 comments. Clearly, these people have not used Blogger, a site on which a person must prove her humanity in order to contribute comments to her students.
Forty times Blogger prompted me, "Please prove you're not a robot." Forty times my stomach clenched. Forty times my eyes squinted to correctly determine the strings of numbers and letters. And with great pride, I can say to you that thirty-eight of those forty times, I proved myself human.
But as we all know, in the world of English instruction, I fill the role of superhuman. So, I offer to you my insights on your work thus far, along with some guidance in terms of how to enhance future posts.
1. I wrote a comment to each of you. Please read that comment. If you have items to improve upon, I have noted them for you.
2. Punctuate titles of novels correctly. (Can you sense my annoyance?)
3. Subscribe to all of your classmates' blogs. Not all of you have done this yet. The next time I read through your blogs, you will have remedied this. Two classmates had to change their URL's: Abby Weber = abigailweber. blogspot.com and Katie Schmiedicker = kateschmiedicker.blogspot.com.
4. Overall, I find the development of your paragraphs satisfactory. You need to work on verbs. You must use strong verbs in your titles, your entries, and your comments. This means no passive voice or simple verbs. I did not come down as hard on this issue during the June entries. That changes in July.
Also, you must remember that we now study fiction. That changes things a bit, verb-wise. ALWAYS USE PRESENT TENSE VERBS. Information about the larger occasion, the author, or yourself stand as the only exceptions to this rule. This news should make your life easier. Again, I did not come down as hard on this issue during the June entries. That changes in July.
5. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on your books! Please make sure you annotate each book thoroughly. Some of you would also serve yourselves well to PROOFREAD a couple of times before you publish your entries.
6. Continue to enjoy your summer! I look forward to the next batch of writing.... except for the robot stuff.
Oh, and my apologies to readers of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, who apparently cried themselves to sleep each night.
Forty times Blogger prompted me, "Please prove you're not a robot." Forty times my stomach clenched. Forty times my eyes squinted to correctly determine the strings of numbers and letters. And with great pride, I can say to you that thirty-eight of those forty times, I proved myself human.
But as we all know, in the world of English instruction, I fill the role of superhuman. So, I offer to you my insights on your work thus far, along with some guidance in terms of how to enhance future posts.
1. I wrote a comment to each of you. Please read that comment. If you have items to improve upon, I have noted them for you.
2. Punctuate titles of novels correctly. (Can you sense my annoyance?)
3. Subscribe to all of your classmates' blogs. Not all of you have done this yet. The next time I read through your blogs, you will have remedied this. Two classmates had to change their URL's: Abby Weber = abigailweber. blogspot.com and Katie Schmiedicker = kateschmiedicker.blogspot.com.
4. Overall, I find the development of your paragraphs satisfactory. You need to work on verbs. You must use strong verbs in your titles, your entries, and your comments. This means no passive voice or simple verbs. I did not come down as hard on this issue during the June entries. That changes in July.
Also, you must remember that we now study fiction. That changes things a bit, verb-wise. ALWAYS USE PRESENT TENSE VERBS. Information about the larger occasion, the author, or yourself stand as the only exceptions to this rule. This news should make your life easier. Again, I did not come down as hard on this issue during the June entries. That changes in July.
5. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on your books! Please make sure you annotate each book thoroughly. Some of you would also serve yourselves well to PROOFREAD a couple of times before you publish your entries.
6. Continue to enjoy your summer! I look forward to the next batch of writing.... except for the robot stuff.
Oh, and my apologies to readers of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, who apparently cried themselves to sleep each night.
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