Passive voice.
Jayne is a girl's name.
River ,'Trash'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Sep 24, 2009 10:49:47 am PDT #10722 of 30001
information libertarian
Cashmere - Sep 24, 2009 10:50:11 am PDT #10723 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm sure that (as in teaching any subject) different kids will respond to different approaches.
Yes. This.
I guess I'd define good pedagogy as getting through to as many students as possible. When you're teaching to the group, it's sure as hell difficult to modify your teaching style for one student. Not that it shouldn't be done in some circumstances, but it's difficult.
I'm sure my thoughts on this subject will change as Owen heads through primary and into secondary school.
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 10:50:12 am PDT #10724 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
In math class, by the way, not English.
Yes, but her school system teaches cross-cirriculum. They teach writing in math, English in science, etc.
Steph L. - Sep 24, 2009 10:50:19 am PDT #10725 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"Y was done."
Passive voice.
t edit flea is so much faster than me!
msbelle - Sep 24, 2009 10:51:12 am PDT #10726 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I ended a sentence in a preposition, didn't I? EAT IT, hard and fast rules!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 24, 2009 10:51:22 am PDT #10727 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The next class after I turned in my first English paper in college, the prof wrote a sentence on the board and asked the class what was wrong with it.
That, I've done. I've always warned students that sentences from their essays could end up on the board, though, and that they won't be named.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 10:51:48 am PDT #10728 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Passive voice.
The passive voice was used.
Or if you're Yoda and using the passive voice: "Used was the passive voice."
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2009 10:51:53 am PDT #10729 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I definitely think it's okay to use an example if you do not name the student and are speaking objectively and not personally. Say "This {example} is not acceptable" as opposed to something like "The person who wrote this is an clearly an idiot." And you have to do it the FIRST time it happens or it will keep happening. I was told when I started teaching that it was good to over-enforce rules in the first few weeks, because that shows kids there ARE rules and once they know that they stop pushing as hard and you can relax more and I found that to be very true.
But with some behaviors, you have to make an example of the student in public--if a kid, for example, says something insulting about another kid, I think it's fine to call that kid out on it right that second in front of the class.
Kathy A - Sep 24, 2009 10:52:26 am PDT #10730 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Passive voice.
Thank you!! I really need to take a nap--I've been walking around in a fog all day, after it took me several minutes to get out of my bed at 10:00 (very nearly came in to work past my very liberal flex starting time for the first time in years).
Cashmere - Sep 24, 2009 10:52:39 am PDT #10731 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I ended a sentence in a preposition, didn't I? EAT IT, hard and fast rules!
I snorted Diet Coke.