So...it has been an interesting evening!
We had/are having torrential downpours outside plus severe thunderstorm warning plus tornado warning plus hail warning - which my new car (ahem truck) was so NOT excited about! So yeah - that was fun!
Also, LC and I were discussing new names for our balconies. She is going with the island feel so she is going to call hers a lanai. I watch my soaps all the time and they call there patios and balconies terraces so that is what I am going with. Now, even though I am online I have no desire slash time to look up the meanings of these terms to know if they are being used correctly. (It is already past my bedtime for a Sunday night.) So terrace it is!
Now on to the real reason for this post...school!
Of course I brought work home with me for the weekend and of course I waited until about 7 pm on Sunday to get started on it. My students are researching countries in Africa and Asia and are writing a short paper about those countries. Most of the papers start off with a line or two or five like this:
Hello! My name is (insert name) and I am going to tell you about the culture of Japan that I think was really fun to study about and I am really excited to tell you allot about it. So here we go!
Yep!
And then one of my kids wrote about the geography but his concluding line said this:
Hopefully one day in the future I will be able to study about the geography of Japan!
Well buddy, since your whole paper was already about the geography of Japan, I am so happy that I have been able to make that dream of your come true! I mean really. IDK!
Oh and of course I got many papers that were copied and pasted from several websites. Not only was the writing style and vocabulary waaaaaay over the head of a seventh grader, but its chunked in several different fonts and there are underlined portions that are probably hyperlinked. So, yeah! That's what I've got!
And also I just realized I have written - so, yeah - a few times in this post. Not really sure what that means but I'm thinking that things have been so ridiculous that there really hasn't been anything else to say.
Anyway - gotta get to bed 'cause this girl needs her beauty sleep FO' REAL!
3 comments:
lanai: a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room
terrace: an outdoor, occupiable extension of a building above ground level
I like veranda, too: a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed).
And may I please point out that when we talked about that, it was well before your bedtime?
Yeah when we talked about it it was before my bedtime but by the time we got off the phone, I got dont grading my papers and got on the computer, it was past my bedtime!
change in plans: i am going for veranda.
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