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Tired and hungry, she finished the trek. Or the blog. Whatever.
Well, this has certainly been one interesting semester. Going through my first blog, trying to find material to work with, I realized I sounded quite sure of myself. What a surprise I was in for!
Let’s start with the successes. While I had a semblance of understanding about the who/whom issue at the start of the semester, I am now fully ( Read more... ) -
You ask a simple question...
The Lanham Method in practice. Emphasis on practice.
This is the second page of a paper I wrote for English 302.
The second stanza implicitly introduces the titular tree. It starts with the line, “and I water’d it in fears / Night & morning with my tears.” Satan tells of his device with which he will seduce his foe, which is a poison tree. He ( Read more... ) -
Don't worry, it's just a fixer-upper.
Here is a paragraph that I wrote in a paper titled "How to Be a Big Sister" for English 101:
Just before my eighth birthday, my mother made a decision that changed our lives; she married my stepfather. I knew, even at that age, that things were going to be different. Tom was hard on Stephanie and me. My mother had always been lax on us, never ( Read more... ) -
Why, yes, I know some fanboys.
So, I am a total internet nerd. When I saw FANBOYS, my brain immediately went to FANGIRLS. If you do not know what a fangirl is, you're lucky. The easiest ones to spot are those girls who think that "ohmygodedwardcullenisthehottestboyeverifhedoesn'tlovemetooi'lljustdie!" You know the ones I mean. However, as you know, FANBOYS has nothing to do with ( Read more... ) -
ALRIGHT? All right.
Well, this past week as been really interesting. We were able to go through an article and discuss a lot of different things related to not only grammar, but to teaching styles as well. People shared, or at least hinted to, their various philosophies on teaching and it was truly thought provoking to see the differences we have in that realm within ( Read more... ) -
Prepo-what now?
I’m entirely sure that this week confused me more than clarified things. I went from a world of apparently blissful ignorance and now it has been shaken to its core. It’s all part of the learning process, I know. I have stepped into my zone of proximal development, now I have to change the discomfort into understanding. I understand prepositional ( Read more... ) -
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Verbs are sexy.
We started off the week with a fish bowl discussion, and that was pretty fun, if not aggravating. I started out on the outside, and had to listen to the inside group touch on many of the things I found interesting without being able to comment on them myself. I hate to sound like a whiner, but that sucked. I did, however, appreciate the fact that ( Read more... ) -
You down with POS?
What have I learned in the past week? Well, for one thing I’ve learned that a magazine that is chalk-full of recipes isn’t the best source of grammar to work with. It was somewhat frustrating to be looking for more articles to pick apart for our English-nerd purposes, and the entire last section was just directions on how to make the best ( Read more... ) -
My Grammar Issues, or Grammar's Issues with me.
Grammar has always been a focus for me. Not in terms of wanting to study it, but in terms of being nit-picky. I was always (and sometimes still am) called the “Grammar Nazi” by those who spent any amount of time around me because of my constant correction of a misplaced word or the use of a noun as a verb. However, regardless of the fact that I ( Read more... )