We still actually have English teachers in high schools?
This comment is from a grandmother who still diagrams sentences when reading. And is able to spell, write and speak in complete sentences in spite of surviving grades 4-8 in a two-room schoolhouse. Two teachers with two grades each, plus 2 bathrooms. And horror of horrors, our 7-8th grade teacher was Jewish and we actually sang Christmas carols from a tiny booklet.
Surprisingly, even in elementary and middle schools. My daughter just started HS this month, and she has been correcting my writing for years! It's actually amusing, because I've been doing it to her father for years! of course it is not so amusing when she does it to me on FaceBook! Both her friends and mine get a big kick out of it - especially my friends from HS who had the same OCD nun as an English teacher who drilled diagramming into us!
>>This comment is from a grandmother who still diagrams sentences when reading. And is able to spell, write and speak in complete sentences in spite of surviving grades 4-8 in a two-room schoolhouse. Two teachers with two grades each, plus 2 bathrooms. And horror of horrors, our 7-8th grade teacher was Jewish and we actually sang Christmas carols from a tiny booklet.
You’re talking to a teacher that previously taught narrative essay writing with a pre-writing exercise, today taught proofreading and editing, and then forced the thirty kids in each class to proofread and edit for 45 silent minutes. Tomorrow, the kids rewrite their essays.
They may not like it, but they know to come in, shut up, and write correctly - or it’s public humiliation time.