I graded memory quizzes recently and was amused at the misspellings of the sixth graders. I’m still struggling to know how much I can expect from them. They clearly aren’t seventh graders, but I want to hold them to some kind of standard. I’ve been teaching seventh and eighth grade for thirteen years now. Maybe in another thirteen years I’ll have sixth grade figured out.
Anyway, our latest memory quiz included a blank space that was to be filled with the word “Jesus”. Here’s what two of them wrote:
Hehe… I think in both cases, their brains were going faster than their hands. It was a nice grin in the middle of a grim time – a time of grading.
I’d say they need to practice this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TzEs_aZnI) but you’re right – hands faster than brains.
Does that one kid know he’s got Lloyd’s green pen?
That’s not my green pen. My green pen is right… Hey!
I bet if we all started pronouncing His name in Spanish, they’d remember. I already have Intro to Languages students asking about that Spanish name that looks just like Jesus…
…”Hey, Zeus!”
[Nah, then they'd spell it that way, too, wouldn't they?]