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?

[mackenziee]

ummm,
just standard stuff.
I don't know what your curriculum is, but we learned a lot about optics in science, A LOT of algebra in Math, poetry / short stories in English, and a lot also on WWII in Social Studies / History.

Helps?