As I was marking a test today, I read that "coronary heart disease is diagnosed using an anagram." This sentence was followed by an accurate description of how an angiogram works. I circled "anagram" and wrote, "An anagram is when you take the letters of a word and rearrange them to make another word. For example, STOP is an anagram of POTS. :)"
Yes, I use smileys when I correct students... I pride myself on always being encouraging. I also like stickers.
However, I really wanted to explain what an anagram was by saying that "Jeremy's Iron" is an anagram for "Jeremy Irons."
p.s. It's that time of year where I'm staying at school until 7:30 pm trying to get caught up on my marking while swearing "next year, I'm NOT going to let this happen!" Tomorrow will be another late night.
7 comments:
Awhh you sound like the best teacher ever!! So nice.
It must be so entertaining sometimes.
I love this. And your preferred anagram. x
Judging by this post and the last post, I'm guessing you've reached that point in the school year where you end each day by burying your face in your hands and mumble "Why me?"
Oh boy. I love that you use stickers! A dnsmiley faces, I don't think I ever had a teacher put a smiley face on anything. Hopefully next week you will have time for a well deserved break from marking!
I hear you. And I also love stickers. Oooh, and my little stamp that says 'Miss Thornley :)' on it!
Let's see if anagrams would work in detecting coronary heart disease. It could reduce healthcare costs and give writers work.
I always love to read those funny online emails about hilarious student responses to test questions. You know like the ones with a triangle and numbers "find x", one student circled the x and put "here it is" LOL!!
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