Possess This!

Most of you probably cannot commiserate with me on this, but possessive nouns are a bitch. It's not the nouns themselves that drive me to the brink of insanity, rather it is the students' absolute neglect of using possessive nouns that makes me want to jump into a blender. There is no reason that it should take a teacher hour after grueling hour to grade a simple writing assignment, however, here at Hamster Wheel Prep, the lack of simple things like periods, apostrophes, and the correct spelling of first grade sight words, makes grading each assignment a painful, arduous journey through Nonsense City.

In an attempt to correct this, I had my seventh graders create 25 original sentences containing correctly punctuated possessive nouns. Here is a sample of what I received.

1. Annasi's eyes be very slanted like Chinese people's eyes.
2. Abyssidy's walk is very stank. I really hate it.
3. LaQueesha's lips are very big some white girls pay for their lips to look like hers (all one sentence, yes).
4. Briasia's stomach be as jolly as Santa Claus's.
5. Danayshia's favorite color is PURBLE because she think it's pretty.
6. Ashaunti's shoes are very big they be clown shoes (duh, yes that's supposed to be all one sentence).
7. My toe's are very pretty and I don't care what anyone else says about them (your toes possess something?).
8. Ms. Homeskillet's wardrobe is very nice for the kinda person she is (can you say backhanded compliment?).
9. Her baby daddy's hair be nappy and so do her babies (the babies are nappy?).
10. NaKeera's feet be dusty and crusty cause she ain't go no pedicure.

I am done grading for now, so I suppose I will continue my run on this never ending hamster wheel and contemplate how I'm ever going to make progress.