Favorite answers

We've been talking about the Civil Rights movement lately because it is the historical context in which the novel we're reading takes place. (Boy I felt like I went out of the way to avoid ending that sentence with a preposition, and now the sentence just sounds stuffy)

My students had to write in-class essays about a Civil Rights topic of their choice. Here are some of the fantastic lines from these essays (just assume [sic]):

• "Martin Luther King was a famouse black African American."


• "...and the schools where integrated, which is when they bring all the raceists together."


• "The Jim Crow laws were named after a black charactor in a menstrual play."


• "The status quo is the right to beat on people because of they're race."