Calling all English Teachers and Duck Knowers -**Talked to her**

[Goat_Walker]

I go to a "christian" School . Heavy on the qoutes. Most disrespectful imature bunch of highschoolers ive ever met.

 

[fitzy]

there's a reason i left the church.....

 

[rainplace]

I love words and the history of words.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED):

Broody

2. Of fowls: inclined to "sit" or incubate

the year 1523 Fitzherb wrote, "When they (hennes) waxe brodye."

by the late 1600's the word is spelled the same as today, and in 1859 Darwin wrote, "Fowls which very rarely or never become 'broody,' that is, never wishes to sit on their eggs.

Sorry, I just had to really look it up. She cannot argue with the OED

 

[Goat_Walker]

Im going to print these posts out when I get home. then take them into school tomorrow and show her.

I got an 83 on the paper, but im horrible in english and barely passed this last semester so if I can get it up to a high B or even an A it gives me a netter chance of having a higher grade.

 

[mjdtexan]

Thats out of line about the staples. If I were your parent (you are talking high school right?) I would be mad about that. Thats not right.

 

[wombat]

I would simply show her the definition of the word, and ask whether you had used it incorrectly.

In one of my advanced economics courses, the professor was replaced with a grad student for the semester. When I got the mid-term exam, I was baffled. Usually mid-terms at that school were two hours long, and you were hard pressed to finish in two hours in an advanced course. I finished the mid-term exam in 15 minutes. Maybe less. I had to ask if my exam was missing some pages.

I got my paper back with "D" on it, for "not showing my work." I'd earlier had one of those beastly professors that would mark an entire question wrong if you left off so much as one unit of measure (good training, by the way, hated it at the time though) ... so there was no way I'd left off a thing in my answer.

As it turned out, the grad student teaching this advanced course was completely unfamiliar with basic calculus. He'd come up with a tough set of problems to solve without calculus, but a simple matter with it. I suppose if you've never seen it before, you'd look at a problem someone solved with differential methods and say "How did they get from there to here? They didn't show their work!" and that's how I got a "D."

The academic policy was that unless a particular method was stated, any method could be used to solve an exam problem, so I was in the clear on using calculus. I had to appeal to the department head. I was given an "A", and the grad student had to explain how he'd gotten that far without the math skill essential to his chosen field of study.

If you're going to go on in school, expect to need to politely question a grade from time to time. Things like this happen, and nobody knows everything, not even your teachers, not at any level. Take it as an opportunity to show your teacher how much learning you're doing outside of school. Be polite, and give your teacher an opportunity to correct their error without being made to feel foolish.

 

[rainplace]

Excellent advice, Wombat!

 

[Goat_Walker]

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Thanks! She is just so difficult to talk to . She talks to me in a manner that makes me feel disrespected and foul. She wont even look at me when I ask her questions after class. She just points up that slim nose of hers and sniffs as if I smell bad! I will talk to her tommorrow though Because ducks are always on my mind lol

 

[wombat]

She might be shy. Some English teachers are sorta geeky.

 

[sfw2]

I don't think it's necessarily the word "broody" that she has an issue with. The phrase "went broody", while commonly used in poultry circles, may sound like slang to somebody whose life doesn't revolve around around chickens and ducks. Perhaps your teacher would have prefered the term "became broody"?

I'm not an English teacher, but I've often been accused of acting like one . . .