I’ve been double acrostic!

Even though I got burned last time trying to use acrostics on my freshmen before, I thought that with almost a year under their naive belts that they could give it a go again. That’s why I offered bonus points to their next test, if they wrote one concerning a character from one of the readings this past year. To be honest, I don’t even think that they even read Spark Notes anymore. Check these out:

Banshee?
Oh, no!
Oh, no!

I’m not sure which is scarier, a ghost acrostic, or the class vice-president thinking Boo Radley was a ghost.

Big
Oversized
X-ray
Equine
Rube

Dang! The kid was so close. What’s with throwing that “X-ray” in? Did Boxer die from radiation poisoning? How’s about a little poetic license or a different character.

Pretty
Airy
Romantic
Iffle Tower
Snails are escargot.

Shakespeare! Shakespeare, you fool! Not the city. “Iffle?”

Canadian Bacon
Is
Really
Choice
Even though it’s just ham.

Oh—Canadian bacon—ham—pigs. Yeah that sucks.

Big
Ugly
Retarded
Tickle

WTF? Burt? Did I miss something? Who is this kid writing about? Did the Muppets do a version of Great Expectations that I didn’t hear about? And isn’t it Tickle Me Elmo, not Burt?

It looks like we’re going to have to do some serious reviewing to do for the final.