Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
Funny Test Answers: The Collection
Today I present my collection of Funny Test Answers. They’re real, they’re fresh, and they’re hilarious. So lighten up and enjoy ‘em.
As a middle school teacher, many of these come from my own classroom, but I’m not above collecting funny test answers from other teachers. So I’ve decided to make […]
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Tags: Learning · Writing · Humor · Teaching · Fun Stuff
Now, I know what I said, and I meant every word of it. But then, I got this comment to a post,
“das wiked. som kid in ma clas did dat. evry1 freaked, even da teacha!it waz jokes, yo.lol. Buh… she went 2 ur web, got da secret n printed it n gave it 2 […]
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Greg, an alert reader from–well, I’m not sure where he’s from–left this comment on my About page yesterday:
So, help me out here. Your blog is getting major hits, top five on Wordpress, and while I respect your writing, and it is interesting at some level–to what do you attribute so much traffic? Do you have […]
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Tags: Learning · Writing · Humor · Growth · Around the house
Yes, yes . . .there are certain conventions we must all agree upon. This is school after all. This is academic or persuasive or technical or professional or creative or expository or whatever the heck kind of writing we are working on here. This is not your cell phone. I am […]
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Let’s face it, some people think better in pictures.
They think with their eyes.
For the most part, I am not one of them. But I still think visual literacy is pretty cool. I wrote a longer post on this topic and offered up a couple of tools here.
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February 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a very exciting email informing him that he’d won a huge amount of money from some odd (but very official sounding) oversees organization. They didn’t ask for any personal information so my friend replied, thanked them, and let them know he couldn’t […]
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Tags: Uncategorized · Writing · Humor · Money
A Figure of Speech is a literary device used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison.
What follows are some samples of real students’ attempts at this. Each definitely create a special “effect or feeling”–though I don’t think it’s what the writer was shooting for.
These were not […]
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January 13th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Writing can be a bitch of a thing to do sometimes.
Currently I’m working on a column (I’m sure I’ll post it here soon enough so I won’t spoil the surprise), but I’m having a heck of a time with it.
It’s a good topic– interesting, relevant, and I anticipated having a bit of fun with it. […]
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