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From: "Judy Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: "I - Thou"
A really fine ouch-punch, Fred
Chirs,
Judy
Over the weekend I finished grading the third and last short stories from my
introductory creative writing class. Some of my kids have made themselves
think about plot, characterization, showing-not-telling etc., but still,
quite evidently, *cannot think* about the logic of a *sentence. Poem was
merciful compared to what I could have written about their high-school
English teachers - or, more fittingly, the people who decide what gets
taught and how seriously. Every semester I ask if anyone has ever had a
class that explicitly concerned itself with "grammar." One or at most two
hands go up - and usually they both went to Catholic school. The nuns beat
it into them.
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