Was My Eighth Grade English Teacher One of Us?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:19 pm
My eighth grade English teacher used to love using this sample sentence to illustrate various grammar principles:
"Playing in the mud is fun."
For vocabulary, she included these short words:
Bog
Mire
During the spelling quiz, she grinned as she repeated the words aloud:
"Bog ... Bog ..."
"Mire ... Mire ..."
For the classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, she explained the source of the antagonist's distress:
"The man was being buried alive!"
Long before I knew there were others like me, I wondered if she was one like me, though I never asked!
"Playing in the mud is fun."
For vocabulary, she included these short words:
Bog
Mire
During the spelling quiz, she grinned as she repeated the words aloud:
"Bog ... Bog ..."
"Mire ... Mire ..."
For the classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, she explained the source of the antagonist's distress:
"The man was being buried alive!"
Long before I knew there were others like me, I wondered if she was one like me, though I never asked!