...personality styles...

I teach a unit on learning & personality styles.

I give my students an abbreviated version of the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory.  (I pretty well-known personality test, for those that have never heard of it.)  The results are identified by four different letters, leading to 16 possible outcomes.

On the assessment for this unit, I include an essay question.  This basically involves the students explaining their personality style.

Here is the beginning portion of my favorite answer:

My personality style is INFJ.  My personality style is basically exactly like my real personality.  I am quiet and loyal, just like a Hufflepuff.

Isn't it good to know the results were so accurate?  I mean, it's basically her real personality!  Phew!

If you don't know what a Hufflepuff is...well, it's one of the houses (or dormitories) from the Harry Potter series.  If you have read/watched the series, you will understand how she quickly identified herself...she didn't even need a sorting hat!

...sentences...

It's time for vocabulary sentences again.

Here is a sampling you might like...it reminds me of a You Tube video you may have seen...

Bonquesah made Stankesha cry because her words were very trenchant.

Needtoshutupesha saw her name on the roster for most outspoken.

Uglesha impeded our conversation.

"You need to forbear from talking too much," said Hotbreathesha.

Getintroubletoomuchesha tried to evade getting caught.

Beedeebeedesha was ripped asunder from her comb.

...pitfalls...

We are discussing personality styles.  Today students were reading over full-page descriptions of their personality styles based on the Myers Briggs test.  The page was broken up into various sections.  One of these sections was titled Potential Pitfalls.

So, I asked:  What does potential mean?

Student 1:  When you have the ability to do something, but you don't actually do it.

I had to clean up some slightly misinterpreted parent/teacher conference lingo for them...

Then I asked:  What does pitfall mean?  Well, besides an old Atari game?

Student 2:  It's a fall you pit into!

Close.  So close.

...punctuation...

I was teaching a group of Juniors about some punctuation rules in preparation for the ACT English test.  It went a little something like this:

Me:  Who can tell me what a colon is?  And don't tell me about your body...

Students give a little chuckle.

Student 1:  I hate when people spell cologne like colon.

Me:  Yeah, that is unfortunate.

Student 2:  I know how to spell cologne!  (He did not say the letters, but changed the pronunciation.)  CO-LOG-NE!

Me:  Good...

Student 1:  Yeah, like I hate it when people say things like, Your colon smells really nice today!