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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:07 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:17 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:48 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:47 pm
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Emmanuela That's quite shocking, amusing, but still. I just think it's awful when people use incorrect grammar when in positions of authority and influence, like teachers. Then again, in my opinion, the modern English curriculum should be scrapped and replaced with an entirely grammatical based one, with emphasis on vocabulary and correct pronounciation as well as correct spelling and English usage. Somehow I don't see that happening soon...
I completely agree here. My English professor has more grammatical errors in his hand-outs than most of us have in our assignment... combined. He was eaching us about the proper use of puncuations such as commas. He had to reach into his internet answers to find them. If someone were to teach a lesson, should they not know how to do it first? It's a little pet peeve of mine, hehe.
And as for Art and Poetry being English classes... I can see Poetry as being an english class, but Art isn't even close. Poetry requires creative writing skills, so although it isn't literature, it still has the qualities of an english class. Art usually relates to pictures, sculptures, and photography. Unless they have to write an essay about it every time, I thikn it's a stretch claiming it as english.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:58 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:14 am
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aoikin And as for Art and Poetry being English classes... I can see Poetry as being an english class, but Art isn't even close. Poetry requires creative writing skills, so although it isn't literature, it still has the qualities of an english class. Art usually relates to pictures, sculptures, and photography. Unless they have to write an essay about it every time, I thikn it's a stretch claiming it as english. I'm pretty sure that that wasn't a typo and the post referred to pottery, as in ceramics, not poetry.
I second the motion that Latin should be mandatory, and I move that English classes incorporate a small section on etymology to fill people in on the other various roots of the English language. (Not that my motions made here would have any effect on anything, unless one of you happens to be a school board member.)
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:36 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:42 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:25 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:48 am
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Pottery and art as English credit?! Oh, my future! I see it wither before me! If the teacher of a lesson cannot even explain the concept they are teaching, the future is indeed bleak. I see that happen in math too! I ask my extra-curriculum teacher try to explain an example with a concept that I haven't learned yet, and he doesn't even know how to voice this mathematical concept. xp As for other language grammar, I agree. My Chinese grammar kills me, and my teacher is not very clear. Her English vocabulary is very low, but I can't really blame her for that entirely. She didn't have a true teacher.
P.S. Isn't grammar spelled that way?
P.P.S. I think learning Latin would help me a lot with the subjective-nominative stuff. sweatdrop Plus, I think it's interesting.
P.P.P.S. You want to know how sad and low our society has become in English? There are kids at my school who actually cuss like the cuss words are the only ones in their vocabulary, and I actually think that it might be possible. Heck, I've heard them cussing in Spanish!!! They also sound like complete perverts, and supposedly there was a pervert in the girls locker room today at! We're not even in high school yet! *twitches* I'm so glad that I have like...FIVE people who have actual intelligible speech there. And that's not even half of it, but I'm not even going to try to scratch any deeper than the surface or I might go insane. << Why me?
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:18 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:07 pm
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