Sorry for my crude title. One of the characters in the story The Body by Stephen King scrawls that in his grammar book. I thought that was fitting.
Ugh… grammar. I have read many articles (pro and con) about teaching grammar. I still don't know what the answer is. It does not behoove us to teach grammar in middle school, but what do you do when students have to learn a foreign language in high school. They have no idea the conventions of the English language, so they have problems trying to learn this new language. Educators have been fighting about grammar for decades, so I'm certainly not going to figure it out.
I agree with Danielle about the readings this week. I usually I just hate reading Smith, but I thought he was interesting this week. On the other hand, I basically just scanned the Hartwell article. The only thing that I thought was interesting was the thing about the French girls and that everybody immediately produces the "correct" order. Okay, Dragon is not cooperating with me today so I think I'm done for this week.
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