Red-pen Addendum

Oh, the marvel that is my English teacher! I present to you, courtesy of the ever-charming Margrethe, project-info:

"This work is to be handed in and marked. You will also have to make a brief presentation about your work to the rest of the class (2 minutes – you present your chosen works and give a brief presentation of your findings." This isn't particularly bad, is it? Just your ordinarily mediocre high schooler not quite trying. I'll forgive her "your chosen works" if she keeps her hands off semicolons.

"1. Choose one of the three themes listed below:
• Decisions
• Outsiders
• Parent / childhood

2. Choose one work of each genre listed below:
• Novel / short story
• Film
• Poem / song / picture / painting

3. Make a comparison of the portrayal of the topic/theme in the chosen works. Analyze." One and two are just fine and dandy - There is hope after all. But then 3 comes along, and kills the light in all the world's tunnels. What on earth does the woman mean? Not only bad, and excessive wording, but extremely poor phrasing.

"Working progress:
1. Find the chosen works, Friday week 39 – 29 September
2. Rough draft, Friday week 41 – 10 October
3. Hand in written work Tuesday week 44 – 31 November
4. Brief presentation of work 2 min, present works and conclusion (findings) Tuesday week 44 – 3 November
The work is to be done at school." Come again, darling? Didn't quite catch that, did you? Neither did I, I'm afraid. I'm sure it'd be terribly fun to find works someone's chosen, and "working progress" sounds very intriguing. But it took three or four readings (and quite a bit of goodwill) to even get the gist of the thing.

And here follows a list of suggestions (divided by topics and genre). She hasn't messed that bit up too badly - how could she, anyway? It's but a list of greater people's work.

Red-pen Addendum

Oh, the marvel that is my English teacher! I present to you, courtesy of the ever-charming Margrethe, project-info:

"This work is to be handed in and marked. You will also have to make a brief presentation about your work to the rest of the class (2 minutes – you present your chosen works and give a brief presentation of your findings." This isn't particularly bad, is it? Just your ordinarily mediocre high schooler not quite trying. I'll forgive her "your chosen works" if she keeps her hands off semicolons.

"1. Choose one of the three themes listed below:
• Decisions
• Outsiders
• Parent / childhood

2. Choose one work of each genre listed below:
• Novel / short story
• Film
• Poem / song / picture / painting

3. Make a comparison of the portrayal of the topic/theme in the chosen works. Analyze." One and two are just fine and dandy - There is hope after all. But then 3 comes along, and kills the light in all the world's tunnels. What on earth does the woman mean? Not only bad, and excessive wording, but extremely poor phrasing.

"Working progress:
1. Find the chosen works, Friday week 39 – 29 September
2. Rough draft, Friday week 41 – 10 October
3. Hand in written work Tuesday week 44 – 31 November
4. Brief presentation of work 2 min, present works and conclusion (findings) Tuesday week 44 – 3 November
The work is to be done at school." Come again, darling? Didn't quite catch that, did you? Neither did I, I'm afraid. I'm sure it'd be terribly fun to find works someone's chosen, and "working progress" sounds very intriguing. But it took three or four readings (and quite a bit of goodwill) to even get the gist of the thing.

And here follows a list of suggestions (divided by topics and genre). She hasn't messed that bit up too badly - how could she, anyway? It's but a list of greater people's work.