Language Arts Advance., ugh. Options

[creole]

I am in 8th Grade Advance Language Arts.


So my Language Advance arts teacher is pretty good at doing critical thinking with quotes and reasons, but when we have to do essays, he gives us restricted words we can't use.

Examples -

FROM NOW ON TO THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR;
We can't use the word it, because it is a weak pronoun that takes place over a noun. IF WE DO WE LOSE 10 POINTS OF OUR FINAL GRADE FOR EACH TIME WE USE "IT" IN THE STORY.

DOG / CAT STORIES ;
We must use five of the senses in a sensory description way for every paragraph we make, and we can't use the words "dog, cat, feline, puppy, kitty."

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I see he's trying to make us better, and if we get our work published with somewhere related to the press (newspaper, t.v,) then we get an automatic "A". :) Plus now we have to keep a portfolio of our work before we go to High School.
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How was or now, your eighth grade LA teacher?

[SharperMyspace]

Your teacher sounds awful. I could not live with those rules. What, are you supposed to call a dog by its scientific name? There are only so many ways to say "dog"!

Seriously, it is not like that in high school. I hated all that crap that 8th grade teachers told you about teachers being stricter in HS. None of it was true. The teachers in highschool are way more laidback then the lame junior high teachers.

[creole]

Your teacher sounds awful. I could not live with those rules. What, are you supposed to call a dog by its scientific name? There are only so many ways to say "dog"!

Seriously, it is not like that in high school. I hated all that crap that 8th grade teachers told you about teachers being stricter in HS. None of it was true. The teachers in highschool are way more laidback then the lame junior high teachers.

They probably wanted us to keep continue our work, since if we slack off, the teachers won't care since they're doing their job. ( Maybe they even act it out, to catch people off guard. ) But who knows?

Not really, and the whole classes grades shifted one letter down.
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That must have sucked. What' did you learn in eighth mackenziee?