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I just met the new kid. He seems kind of sad.
His mom’s got a new a boyfriend–which wasn’t so bad until out of the blue and for no reason he said,
“It’s me or the kid toots.
I don’t like the lad.”
So now he’s the new kid. He lives with his dad.

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Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class.
Pretty straight forward, right?
Well, most of the time.
This was today’s unedited text:
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship [...]

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Every so often you get the opportunity to make a statement about who you really are–bone deep. Most of the time, very few people are watching. Most of the time, nobody cares.
Often, (and ironically) however, making this statement still takes a measure of courage.
These opportunities are like little nuggets of treasure, [...]

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