Recent Literary Correspondance

The following are selections from the very adorable emails I have been exchanging with some of my sixth graders [ok I guess they are 7th graders now...]:

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i am happy to hear that u will be visiting in september and i can't wait to see you. I also can't wait to see [the principal] and all of my other teachers. the beach i went to is in up state PA and is really long drive. but it is really fun and is on a really big mountain that in the winter you can go snowboarding and skiing. i might go. i hope that the surprises are really fun because school can be boring sometimes. well have to go and finish packing my pack. bye tell your brother that i said hi.

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Hi ms ______ i really have missed you b/c the teacher i have right now is so anoying she teaching us like we stupid or something i reall y wish that we had you again everybody is saying that im my class this year we really miss you .well talk to you later

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school started and alredy some kids are suspended and there are alredy fights and such. [the principal] is almost ready to make us stay in the classroom instead of walking and switching classes because some kids can't walk in the halls properly. I wish u were my english teacher still because my english teacher now has gone crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is now grading us on everything we do. And when we r in groups, if 1 person is talking the whole table loses 2 points. She grades us on what we wear, what we say, what we do and other things that u r actually suppose to grade us on. Even shameeka, micha, cici, and mia think she is crazy. and kind of scary. She smiles for everything
well have to go to a jamaican concert
adios amigos
bye bye

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i am going to start my afterschool program on october 4th. i think kenny didn't start.[the principal] was mad and he had a meeting with all the teachers of the school and they have made a rule that people can only go to the bathroom on certain times and also there was a very serious fight outside of the school 3 or 4 days ago and the police had to come to investigate. the police also had taken one of the 2 boys who were fighting. so maybe thats why [the principal] was mad. i was sleepy because my mom comes late from her job and so i have to sleep a little late. ok bye please reply


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nice to hear from again i was so happy to see u at the
school. Wanda's in my class and to me our teacher is'nt strick she gets
on everyones nerves and she like to get her attitude for no reason at all and
she make me sick by doing that. In ELA class the teacher is reading a book
about Walter Dean's life.I'm reading Venis and Serena because they said
i look like Serena so i wanted to see how her life was when she was
smaller.Other than that school is good and i try to keep the kids quiet so
we dont loose our oppotunity in the hall way but the boys mostly dont listen
that make me mad but i would try my best to pay attention and be careful
with what i'm saying.

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the work in 7th grade is about the same like 6th grade because we do the same work. micha said hi and she said that she wants u to be her teacher again because she don't want ms.____. micha aso wants to know how ms._____ lives in harlem and can't do a simple dance named chicken noodle soup and she said that he teacher never heard of it. do u know how to do it. well bye bye.

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In sum, I better get busy learning how to do the Chicken Noodle Soup Dance... Anyone who can help me out with that? I miss those kiddies...