Grammar Wednesday

Observe. This sign is hanging up in at LEAST four places at my health club. Sigh…

AFGO, Part III

Here’s the first letter I wrote to the Powers that Be:
Respected Colleagues:
This letter serves to document my experience of having Jon as a student in my Monday/Wednesday, 11:10-1:20 Public Speaking and Communication class at TCC during the spring semester of 2008.
Jon’s attendance in the course was spotty at the beginning of the semester and, as [...]

Critique

Dearest Readers:
I’m at the beginning of a unit on debate and persuasion with both my public speaking and composition classes. As part of my comp. class’s assignment, I tasked them to choose a topic from among those listed in their text book, to establish a position, to write a list of pros and cons [...]

WORK!

I was sitting at my computer this afternoon, working on my next AFGO post, when the phone rang. I answered it, and it turned out to be one of my favorite former English professors with a job offer!
Mrs. Chili is going to be teaching two sections of Freshman English at LU in the fall! [...]

Grammar Wednesday

California Teacher Guy comes through for me AGAIN!
My dear Mrs. Chili,
The following sentence appears to be irredeemably mangled, but I suspect you’ll find a way to improve it:
But if it wasn’t him and the Democrats, Obama said to reporters in South Dakota, whom was Bush referring to — “Some straw man…?”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1807377,00.html
I’ll be watching for your [...]

AFGO, Part II

The class ended and several students came to me on their way out the door to ask if I thought they should go and find Sam to tell him about what happened in class that afternoon.  I told them that I didn’t think that’d be necessary, but that I’d let them know if Sam asked [...]

AFGO, Part I (Reader Discretion is Advised)

My friend O’Mama has an acronym for those difficult and unpleasant situations in our lives that we KNOW are chances to learn and change, but which we hate having to endure. She calls them “AFGOs” – Another Fucking Growth Opportunity – and I’m in the midst of a doozy.
I’ve decided to start writing about [...]

Commencement

I went to Tiny Community College’s final graduation ceremonies this morning.

I hadn’t planned on going. For months now, I’ve been asking my graduating students if they were planning on marching, and nearly everyone I asked made a little “pfft!” sound and said “no” in a way that made me feel silly for even asking. [...]

A Good Day

I’m still not quite ready to publish what I’ve written about the drama from earlier this week – though I promise you that, at some point in the not-too-distant future, I will (and you should all be prepared to be offended when I do) – I did want to tell you that it seems that [...]

Grammar Wednesday

Okay – here it is; the question that’s been on the blogosphere since Sunday.  Ready?
Is it:
Mothers Day
Mother’s Day
or
Mothers’ Day?
I can make a case for all of them, really.  What do YOU think?