My tenth graders are continually trying to make me laugh—I try my best to stay very stern and serious—and they are also inappropriate teenagers, which generally coincides with making me laugh.
We were working on some grammar, you know, combining two sentences into one with the help of our good friend: the conjunction. Well, if the conjunction starts the sentence, the period that separated the sentences needs to be changed into a comma (for example, changing “I followed the recipe. I burnt my cake” to “Before I followed the recipe, I burnt my cake”). We are making these corrections together, as a class, and I ask aloud, “And what do we do with the period?” To which one of my oh-so-witty students responds “Give it a tampon!”
Inside I was laughing, hard. Outside I was disappointed, seriously. It took all of my will not to laugh!
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