I need to start blogging more, I know I know. And I actually have lots of potential posts, I just never feel motivated to write. And so, tonight as I was grading work, a couple answers made me laugh enough to want to share with you.
From a vocabulary test:
Question: Please write the question we can ask in order to determine if a word is an adjective?
Student Answer: The green horse ate big hard carrots for lunch
Correct Answer, which came directly off a study handout: "What kind of noun is it?"
Where the student got that answer I have NO idea, but it made me smile.
From vocabulary homework. They were supposed to use one of their vocabulary words from “The Crucible” in a correct sentence. My student wrote:
Vocab Word: Ameliorate
Student Sentence: Elected President Barack Obama says he will ameliorate this country.
Hope those made you smile, they sure made me!
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It did make me smile, because it reminded me of my students when I taught high school. They wouldn’t read the whole question, they would just glance at it, pick up a word or two, and scribble an answer. That’s what your first student did. He saw the word “adjective” and immediaely banged out a sentence with as many adjectives as he could squueze in.
Yes, I had to smile too. When grading papers, a little humor goes a long way.
Brains? What brains? (Just kidding, of course!)
I love reading posts like this! I can never share any of my own, since 90% of what we do in class from August to March involves multiple choice responses. Maybe in the spring I’ll have a few good green horse stories.