" i went there for my cousins wedding"
" i placed them all carefully and got out 7 glass cups"
"before i left to get to my bus stop"
These are excerpts of a few sentences written by my sixth graders this week. At least once a day, every day, I remind those very same students that the personal pronoun I is always...ALWAYS capitalized. They all nod in agreement, and yet every day I find myself reading one tiny I after another.
At this point in the year, after 6 months of daily reminders, it's hard to figure out why I am unable to fix this problem.
Don't worry, I am not about to give up, but sheesh, c'mon on people!
Fans of e.e. cummings, maybe?
ReplyDeletewho are you,little i
(five or six years old)
peering from some high
window;at the gold
of november sunset
(and feeling:that if day
has to become night
this is a beautiful way)
❤️!
DeleteNow that's a comment! Love it!
DeleteLive your title; share your frustration.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing what I can to help. Each day I quietly slip my third graders back their papers and ask them to fix the kindergarten "i" they accidentally used. I'm glad you are not a quitter!
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