Category Archive: Writing

Mar 20

You see silly male adolescence. I see masters of double entendre.

From Webster’s College Dictionary: double entendre n. a word or expression used so that it can be understood in two ways, esp. when one meaning is risqué. Book projects/reports are due next week. For most, this is not news. Of course, these four had no idea this was coming. Well, maybe they thought they might …

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Mar 13

Funny Test Answers

Funny Test Answer math

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 …

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Mar 10

das wiked. buh yo! u wanna get tada nxt levl? wateva.

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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Mar 06

Secrets of a Flash in the Pan

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 …

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Mar 04

You won’t find any snarky, grammar/spelling Nazis here.

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 not your IM buddy …

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Feb 26

Teacher Tools: Visual Literacy, Part 2: Visuwords

 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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