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English teacher shares a snap of a student’s strange essay but not everyone agrees with the D grade
News.com.au ^
| 02/11/2020
| Emilia Mazza
Posted on 02/11/2020 8:50:41 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
A photo of an English essay has gone viral and divided the internet after it was shared by the teacher who marked it.
Professor Alexis Pereira, who is based in New York, took to Twitter to post an image that revealed details of a paper written by a student, which had nothing to do with the assigned subject.
“Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student,” he tweeted.
The essay, which has been awarded a D, comes with a comment written by Prof Pereira in red declaring the student’s efforts were way off the mark.
“This was supposed to be about Tom from The Great Gatsby! The book we are reading!”
The essay submitted by the student was titled: “What Exactly Does Tom Want with Jerry?” – a paper about cartoon characters, rather than those from the assigned reading.
“In the Looney Tunes cinematic universe, many of the cartoon nemeses have a very clear goal,” the essay begins.
“Wild (sic) Coyote wants to eat the Roadrunner. Pepe le Pue (sic) wants to impregnate Penelope. Elmer Fudd wants to shoot Bugs (and who doesn’t?).
“But it is unclear what if anything Tom wants to do with Jerry.”
The essay continues: “Submitted for the approval of English 101, I propose that Tom actually has no interest in doing anything with Jerry, but instead fulfilling his class role as ‘house cat’.
“Heathcliff, Top Cat, Garfield, Sylvester – these are all famous cats, most of them cartoon.”
The tweet of the essay along with the teacher’s hilarious comments has gone viral since being shared and at the time of writing has over 49,400 retweets and more than 301,600 likes..”
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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: australia; english101; essay
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To: Responsibility2nd
If anyone thinks that’s real, he’s a damned fool.
To: ClearCase_guy
Even more so, because I see very little of the content was posted.
To: Trump.Deplorable
Yeah, exactly what does a student have to do to get an “F”?
I’ll tell you what... most people could study for weeks and not get a “D” on most STEM courses. But hand in this and you still sorta pass? (A “C” will balance you out into clearly passing territory.)
Come on... if you’re going to write about Tom and Jerry, at least get your facts straight! They were from MGM, not Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes (sic).
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:01:09 AM PST
by
dangus
To: Sacajaweau
She didn’t publish the student’s name, did she?
To: NohSpinZone
I did not know that the hapless cat in the Pepe LePew cartoons is named Penelope. I also did not know that.
The student knows the name of Pepe's love interest, but does not realize why a cartoon cat might chase a cartoon mouse? What do "house cats" do with mice? The writer is educated enough to identify the cartoon cat as fulfilling it's "class role" but does not realize that his essay is supposed to be about the dissolute rich of the 1920s?
No way this is real.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:03:17 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: Responsibility2nd
English teacher?
Is not “The book we are reading.” A dependent phrase, separated by a comma from previous sentence?
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:04:36 AM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
‘Edith Hamiltons Mythology’
What are cartoons but the mythology of the modern day?
To: Sacajaweau
Back when the United States was an education power house, there were no academic secrets and that is what made it function.
That is neither an exaggeration nor a misconception.
Students solved similar equations or diagrammed Similar sentences or expounded on the same written passages in turn, going up and down rows of desk.
If anyone was weak in an area, everybody knew. Students were sometimes assigned to help tutor another student who was lagging.
Students still failed to learn the material, but not in numbers anywhere close to what we see today. If they failed they repeated the grade and none of them failed in secret.
You seem to be asserting that secrecy benefits the student.
I see no evidence of any kind which supports that assertion.
If they feel humiliated that's something that they need to learn to overcome in life so as you try to come up with a reason why secrecy might help students scratch that one off before you even start.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:08:13 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: Sacajaweau
maybe she asked permission.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:11:39 AM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Responsibility2nd
She was definitely too generous with the grade.
This reminds me of the time I was correcting a biochemistry exam and the answer one student gave had nothing go do with the question. The question required students to describe a mechanism of virus replication. One student wrote something about the importance of treating pregnant HIV positive women so their babies don’t get AIDS.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:12:46 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
To: NohSpinZone
I had a dream about the Natalie Wood movie, “Penelope,” the other night. Weird.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:12:59 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:14:26 AM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
To: ClearCase_guy
If it is real, the student certainly did not crack
The Great Gatsby. Or read the
CliffNotes. Or just steal an essay from
GradeSaver. I guess those go in the plus side of the ledger.
To: Responsibility2nd
This reads almost like the student paid somebody to write the paper for them, got the wrong one back, and submitted it sight unseen.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:18:23 AM PST
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
To: Responsibility2nd
I would have given it a NG - no grade - and told the student to rewrite and understand that the new essay would be penalized by at least 1 letter grade.
Ridiculous!
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:18:29 AM PST
by
SoftballMominVA
(No konger in VA. Living the OBX life now!)
To: Trump.Deplorable
Im just surprised Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes are still being shown anywhere in the world.
My kids are in their late teens and twenties and they have never heard of Elmer Fudd or Wiley E. Coyote.
Sponge Bob or Powder Puff girls are what that generation knows.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:24:46 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Responsibility2nd
Wait ... this is a college class?!
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:26:20 AM PST
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: Trump.Deplorable
BINGO! Every day I’m shocked at what young people don’t know that I did at that age and scads more.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:28:23 AM PST
by
AbolishCSEU
(Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
To: Responsibility2nd
“The essay, which has been awarded a D,...”
Since when is a grade of “D” considered an award?
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:29:15 AM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(It's no coincidence that the DemocRAT/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
To: metmom
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:32:39 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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