Through the Notebook

One of the privileges of my job is correcting the notebooks our boys write in every class. For one assignment Cho asked me to come up with sentences for the boys to finish. I wrote the sentences on the board — ten of them– and instructed the boys to complete them. The smelliest and most distracted of them I told twice or three times. But upon going through their answers after school, my pen patrolling for spelling, grammar, and syntax errors, I came across some gems. I reproduce them here for you, their contributions to the sentence italicized.

In the future, I want to be a police station.

Loud boys who play will be hit by the teacher

(Here are a few that are oddly poetic.)

Dear Sir Pump,
Hello Pump. I want to buy you some metal.
I want metal that can match with my door and deskwood. A handle of the door. A metal to make a leg of a desk. Hi Pump. If you want some wood, or some office tables, you can ask me.
Good bye and good luck. Oh. I want 100 pieces of metal.
(Punch Saim Wood)
Owner

The tree fell in autumn

The school was closed today because of conflagration. [meaning an intense and destructive fire.]

The tree fell easily by my powerful power.

(And here are a series of boys who liked kicking things.)

The dog chased me so I turned around and kicked it.

The dog chased me because I kicked it.

Loud boys who play will has another boy kick them.

The tree fell because I kicked it.