11-300 Gems

Regarding Jim in Huck Finn
"The runaway slave had no electronic or modern day resources to free himself and be happy."

Regarding Gatsby-
"Sometimes the lonely man does live the American dream but in this case this is not true."

About the drive to live the American Dream:
"We all have these traits but those who fail lack them."

And finally, two new words for Mr. Webster (which I have put into sentences for you):

expassily (adv.) I like all kinds of chocolate, but I expassily like dark chocolate Hershey kisses.

medeorocrity-(n.) Why settle for medeorocrity when you can strive for greatness?

"As a woman I feel as if sometimes im being steralized into one category"

New Words

Other exam gems include these new words I've learned from students today:
scarcasitic (Is that when you're scarred by sarcasm? Could you develop a scarcoma from such scarcasm?)
choosen
good lititure
a working progress

--Garcia

Need to laugh? Please read this honorly exam excerpt - It is specific, supported and demonstrates higher level thinking

“The story, Two Kinds, has a very deep message. The second quote, from the last page, illistrates this point to the utmost. The message that the story has is that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who follow the rules and those who make their own rules. Both are separate and different in most ways. However they both need the other to get by. The main characters mother is type A in this story…”

--Rizza

There's symbolism in there somewhere.

"[Huck Finn] thought of his American Dream, but he couldn't get it. His father blocked the way. On top of that he had to cook for his father, cooked for both of them, and he would get the leftovers."

Midterm greatest hits

"In the short story The Melting Pot [sic] there is a family with a boy who lives in a very multicular neighborhood."