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08. [WARNING for rape]

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[Lilo and Stitch]

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[Panic! at the Disco]

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I don't know about you and your schooling experience, but by the time I got to high school, the teachers took it for granted that you had received sufficient instruction in grammar before you got there! The purpose of writing assignments in your literature, history, etc. classes was to strengthen your writing skills and critical thinking, but it was assumed you could form sentences and make theses.

+1 Didn't you spend most of middle school being forced to use the "11 sentence paragraph" model?

In high school, you could take the AP English language test but there was no class that went with it.

Urgh, the 11 sentence paragraph. "Think of your paragraph like a hamburger!" It's totally a good exercise in structure though, I can't really knock it. Having seen some of the drivel undergrads write for the classes my sister TA's, there could be a lot more of that out there.

In my school, the AP English Language test was more to prove your proficiency with the language so you didn't have to take a required basic academic writing class when you get to college (at UCs and Cal States). If you got a 3 or better, you could skip it.

I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, but...when did you attend middle school/high school? I began middle school in 1996 and high school in 1999, and had never heard of the "11 sentence paragraph" until now. We were drilled on the "five paragraph essay," but that was it.

No, it's cool. I started middle school in 2000 and high school in 2003, so was graduating class of 2007. I was definitely introduced to the method back in 2000. It's a thing for structuring your body paragraphs in a five paragraph essay. Basically topic sentence, [sentence with evidence/quote, 2 sentences analyzing that evidence and how it relates to topic and thesis] x3, concluding sentence. It's not a bad tool and easy to remember, but when you have to write pretty much every essay that way for 5-6 years it'll grate on you.

I went to a really crappy junior high, so I missed out on a lot of that and had to ply catch-up in high school. :/

I was thinking in terms of really old school graphing sentences and things. I had basic grammar down (although remained fuzzy on the subject of when to use a semi-colon) but we kind of blew over things like the definition of "dependent clause" and the names of various tenses and I would have loved more review and reinforcement. It was embarassing sitting in French class and having the teacher say "Now this is the past petfect tense..." and I had no idea what that meant and needed an example to figure out when it would be used. Over my four years of high school, we must have read half a dozen Shakespeare plays and that's just overkill. We could have cut that in half and spent more time on the actual language. I do a lot of technical writing for my job and everyone says I'm good at it, but I feel like I had to scrounge around for most of what I know on my own.

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