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Question on a To Kill a Mockingbird Test: Who is Miss Maudie
Atkinson? Answer: The Finch's next STORE neighbor.
Did you hear the joke about the bed?
It hasn't been made up yet, sorry!
One day when we were working on poetry in one of my classes, I intercepted
a note written by a distraught student who was having trouble writing poems. The second student wrote back, "Don't worry,
I'll help you. I'm good at this POULTRY stuff."
English teachers struggle convincing students that their
"boring" grammar lessons have real-world importance, but it can be a losing battle. In a discussion about "who" and "whom,"
a teacher asked his students, "What if someone calls you on the telephone? Are you supposed to say 'who may I say is calling?'
or 'whom may I say is calling?'"
Not one student offered a guess.
"Now do you see why you need to know this?"
the teacher asked.
"Not really," said one boy. "I have caller ID."
Why the English language is difficult to learn:
The bandage was
wound around the wound.
He could lead if he got the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
They were too close to the door to close it.
Years ago I had a student hand in a rough draft of a paper
with the title: S.A.
Because I couldn't draw a connection between his title and the content of the paper, I asked
him, "Why did you title your paper S.A.?"
He responded, "You told us to write an essay."
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