"Favorite" student sentences

[apl68]

Wish I had kept that selection of memorable passages from a Latin American History final I graded as a TA years ago.  It could have given this a run for its money.

Next time you feel like your heart is racing away with you, listen to Beethoven's "Pathetique."  It'll help.



"Without humans businesses and music simply would not exist."

Sorry, but this is simply incorrect.  The world is full of non-human music--birdsong, the wind singing in the treetops, running water.  As for businesses, as long as there are ferrets that congregate in groups the world will continue to have those.

[Langue_doc]

 
"The setting of the story first takes place in [location] at [time] around the late [xx]00's, based on the characters [X], [Y] and [Z] whom are real people during this error."

Stu, these are characters in a story; they are not real people; 'era', not 'error'.

I might not have any hair left by the end of the semester.

[AvidReader]

Sure sounds like an error to me . . .

AR.

[apl68]

"The setting of the story first takes place in [location] at [time] around the late [xx]00's, based on the characters [X], [Y] and [Z] whom are real people during this error."

Stu, these are characters in a story; they are not real people; 'era', not 'error'.

I might not have any hair left by the end of the semester.

Maybe the reference to "real people" was an effort to say that they were realistically-drawn characters?

[Langue_doc]

Stu is lost, and woefully unprepared for this course.

[apl68]

Stu is lost, and woefully unprepared for this course.

Well, no arguments there, if the student can write sentences like that!

Guess SOME of those who wander are lost after all...

[Langue_doc]

Stu is lost, and woefully unprepared for this course.

Well, no arguments there, if the student can write sentences like that!

Guess SOME of those who wander are lost after all...

Wouldn't have thought of that if you hadn't pointed it out. Thanks, apl68. I needed a laugh.

[apl68]

Stu is lost, and woefully unprepared for this course.

Well, no arguments there, if the student can write sentences like that!

Guess SOME of those who wander are lost after all...

Wouldn't have thought of that if you hadn't pointed it out. Thanks, apl68. I needed a laugh.

Glad to help!  We ALL need laughs!

[AmLitHist]

From a good student in my lit class:

[Michael Wigglesworth] was a man respected and feared by his pears.

I'm imagining a golf-whispered aside, "His peaches and bananas, however, didn't share this high opinion."

I know it's just a typo, but it made me giggle.  She'll get a kick out of it too when I point it out to the student; she has a great sense of humor.

[mamselle]

Hmm....or maybe they had seen his gravestone? His has acanthus leaves....

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18784172/michael-wigglesworth/photo#view-photo=213345919

There are actually pumpkins and gourds on his wife's stone:

   https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2007/216/18983449_118637005430.jpg   

And yes, the gourds were often placed as on this stone, as a visual pun for breasts.

;--}

Alternatively, perhaps it was the pear-headed priest (1:20) the student was thinking of....

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZAOIWWlLzg

from my very favorite-ist children's book of all:

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364190.Pish_Posh_Said_Hieronymus_Bosch

M. 

[Langue_doc]

From an essay on the disadvantages of online learning

...damage done to a first year college student does irreparable destruction to their growth.

Regardless of a first impression being positive or negative, it allows a student to capture a sense of who is who, and where to navigate themselves in terms of the community.

[apl68]

Hmm....or maybe they had seen his gravestone? His has acanthus leaves....

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18784172/michael-wigglesworth/photo#view-photo=213345919

There are actually pumpkins and gourds on his wife's stone:

   https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2007/216/18983449_118637005430.jpg   

And yes, the gourds were often placed as on this stone, as a visual pun for breasts.

;--}

Alternatively, perhaps it was the pear-headed priest (1:20) the student was thinking of....

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZAOIWWlLzg

from my very favorite-ist children's book of all:

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364190.Pish_Posh_Said_Hieronymus_Bosch

M.

Interesting headstone shots.  I've seen the winged skulls before, but not some of the other motifs.

[apl68]

From a good student in my lit class:

[Michael Wigglesworth] was a man respected and feared by his pears.

You're supposed to talk to your plants, not threaten them!

[fishbrains]

I had a student just write that they really enjoyed Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Grind."

I don't know if the student has a dirty mind there, but I sure do.  :)

[EdnaMode]

From a good student in my lit class:

[Michael Wigglesworth] was a man respected and feared by his pears.

You're supposed to talk to your plants, not threaten them!

Not if you're the demon Crowley!! (Gratuitous Good Omens reference there).