No, I did not abandon my blog. It's just that this place is slowly becoming normal. I do the same things almost daily and all are becoming routine.
School has been as crazy as ever. The students are just nut cases. Seriously, we had mid-term tests statewide and I had a blast marking my papers. As a matter of fact, I was privileged to see other teachers' scripts and what their students wrote.
I had tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks as I read some of these answers because they were unrealistically dumb. In other cases, you just can't figure out what language the student wrote in.Yes, it's really that bad.
I'm starting to believe I can't save them. Reason being, the mid term papers were supposed to weigh 30% of their overall grades. Now, if anyone doesn't know this, I definitely do. Not all students perform well on tests. Some will do better on essays, assignments or other forms of evaluation. So, what I did was to mark the test out of 10% and 10% for notes and the last 10% for assignments because I had a lot of zeros on the test after all the review and inside scoops.
Irrespective of my thoughtful idea, I still have students who received 0 of out 30%. I even saw 2 students seated to write the test even though I had NEVER seen them in class before. They didn't even have the new uniforms because they are never at school so they missed the memo.
To cut the long story short, I wish I was able to share all the hilarious answers with you all but I can't.
Here is a question I asked on the test followed by the correct answer and some answers my students wrote down. Keep in mind that we answered this particular question in class during review 2 days prior to the test. Enjoy :D
Question - What is the definition of a simile? Give an example.
Correct answer - a Simile is a comparison of two unrelated things using 'as' or 'like'. Example - as white as snow or white like snow
"A simile means somebody should be happy. Example: give me a smile"
"Simile is a word that is simile but not the same speeling"
"Similie is a words that is opposite"
"Simile means giving a world in a short way"
"A simile is an expression of feeling. Example: as matter of fact I am sad"
"Definition is mean person simile and were person definition"
Unbelievable right?
~kdamsel~
Hahahahahahahaha omg! This just cracked me up! Ahn its not easy! Children's attention spam is like a blink of an eye. Keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteI'm not convinced this is an attention related issue. They just don't know the importance of education. I'll definitely update you as things progress (hopefully, for the better).
Deleteomgosh what????? lol...what is really going on in this post?
ReplyDeleteOk I'm laughing but I'm actually sad about this. How old are they again?
Although what I'm about to say is absolutely NOT the reason these answers were so poor,
One thing I would like to mention is- the example might have been unfair. There was a poem I once read, about a certain kind of flower and how beautiful it is- except this flower only blooms in America- but the story of the beautiful flower was part of the curriculum in Caribbean schools, which didn't really make sense because they could never appreciate it.
Anyway, maybe "as white as snow" could have been changed to "as white as the middle of the Nigerian flag". Ok my example was most definitely not the best, lol, but you get what I mean.
Really though, this breaks my heart :( </3
Lol. That example was just one out of 3 I personally wrote on the chalkboard. I wrote "as black as charcoal" and "Deji is as tall as an Iroko tree." Really, I don't know how tall an Iroko tree is and I doubt I've seen one but I remember those examples from when I was a kid, still in school in Nigeria. Deji is also one of their classmates and he is tall. When I wrote it, they laughed and teased him, so, they were able to make a direct identification right there. Most of them that got the question right wrote that specific example down. It's just sad.
DeleteLOL wow. So they knew what it meant. Then what is the problem? Cause damn, I would just be frustrated reading those assignments
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