Prompt:
Choose one of the following questions to answer.
1) Why are the authorities in The Crucible so resistant to believe the girls are lying?
2) What are Reverend Parris' motivations in support of the witch trials?
3) What role does sex and sexual repression play in The Crucible?
You can guess which question most of them tried to answer. Actually, most of them just gave me a summary of the plot. Here are the most memorable responses:
"The story I'm going to write about is named The Crucible written by the author author miller. I will be explaining this story in this essay I'm going to write. I will be writting three body paragraph to tell you my three favorite parts of the story I liked the most."
"In one way Mrs. Proctor knew that she had failed him because she didn't satisfied him. For example when the time of having sex she would just lay there and wouldn't do anything, Mr. Proctor would always do all the work."
"After Proctor had said that he had sex with Abigail, Marry Warren talk too and said that Abigail was the one doing witchcraft and that she was a bitch."
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It's one thing to have bad grammar, or to be off topic, but how any kid can think using curse words in a school assignment is appropriate, I'll never know.
ReplyDeleteI blame television.
The cussing is a cultural thing. It took me one day of teaching here to realize that they don't see anything wrong with it. On the street you regularly hear little kids drop the F-bomb. It's just how kids raised in LA are. I learned to ignore it, but I still remind them that they need to watch who's around when they curse.
ReplyDeleteActually it's probably affected me too. I've always had a sailor's vocabulary, but lately I haven't been as discreet about who's nearby when I use it.
Yeah, but ... when you get right down to it, Abigail is a bitch. :-)
ReplyDelete(Wonder what they'd have to say about Ebeneezer Scrooge?)
Love your blog, Emily (found you through Scott the Reader's site). Best of luck with the class ...
-danny boy