podpolia

This one probably wins the award for best typo of this project:

“Thanksgiving was a celebration of giving thanks for a good supply of craps.”

I’ve only had one good quote said in class recently (“I was born in Alaska. In an Eskimo.”), but I have been grading my students’ research papers on colonial America, and have found quite a few interesting quotes (this completely apart from the Powerpoint presentation that said that the number of something or other had “quadtripled”). Without further ado, the quotes, original spelling and wording maintained:

“Howitzers fried eight to nine inch cannon balls.”

“…even the stairs were made of plywood, also thread, Riser, and baluster.”

“When the Battle of Yorktown began Washington an American general and Rocha bean a French general met at Wethersfield, Washington and Rocha bean were trying really hard to think of a plan that could take out the British troops, but people had begun saying that the French and Spanish had managed to get the British to surrender one of their forts which became theirs.”

“The thirteen colonies learned some of their fishing tactics from the Indians and from the Maori (who lived in New Zealand).”

“The first fishing boat was built in the U.S.”

“Many settlers in the 18th century discovered all the animals that we use in farming today.”

On the battle of Yorktown:

“George Washington had many supplies and more numbers they used gatling guns and fired rounds and rounds at the city.”

“Soldiers wore protective gear normally but rarely.”

We were in the library the other day doing research for the Colonial American research project that I have assigned, and one of my students noticed something interesting on the far wall. He kept bobbing his head up and down and side to side. I asked him what he was looking at.

“That’s so cool! See that thing over there on the wall? It’s like a magical window!”
“Um… K, that’s a mirror.”
“…oh.”