Monday, October 1, 2012

Resignation Letter

No, I'm not resigning!  The freshmen are doing a writing exercise which requires them to correct a resignation letter.  In the exercise, a young man has suffered through a nightmare babysitting experience, and he has written a resignation letter to the parents of the nightmarish child.  The young man is apparently trying to use his vocabulary as a weapon, and as a result, his letter is very wordy.  The students are to re-write the letter, eliminating much of the wordiness.  I challenged them to make the corrected version entertaining yet classroom appropriate.  Tomorrow, we'll see what they created.