"I say a word just begins to live that day..."

Some classics from some recent vocabulary quizzes (students have to come up with their own sentences using the vocabulary words for the week):

"You do recount when we last played softball, don't you?"
"The assignment was belittle to his grade."
"The defenders resistance was punitive."
"Jake made the remote comment." (was he talking about changing the channel?)
"I got a few points taken off my test, but it was a punitive amount."
"She was inflexible in her decision to quit the team and won't not go back."
"The mistake on the test was punitive and didn't lower the grade."
"Are you punitive?"
"The initial question was rather Jim took his dog out for a walk or not."
"I had an amass of crayons in my drawyer."
"Some famous people are very imminent."
"Ride on, Frodo, for the orcs are amass!"
"Everyone had an amass of close when the sale was over.
"People fathomed the food because it was so good."
"I have an imminent amount of cloths and that I don't know where to put them all."
"Trying to fathom what heaven is actually like is impossibe, our minds. can't comprehend such things." (I can't fathom your punctuation system.)
"He was fathom that something bad was going to happen."
"The paltry was spread over hills and valleys."
"God's love is amass, it's more than we deserve."
"The books started to amass my whole closet."
"The vivacious of Lansing was very upset about who won the election." (I think this is my favorite. Maybe the one about Frodo beats it.)
"He was only a one year student at his college so he was only remote."
"My aunt is a good person I want to act like her and be a reprisal of her." (If you don't know what reprisal means, go look it up.)
"Sherlock Holmes finds the most punitive clues."
"Parents punitive bad children."
"The name calling was so warrant I just ignored it."
"There was a warrant on the shoes that if I damaged them I could receive a new pair."
"I decision to be a White Sox fan in inflexible." (What do you expect from a White Sox fan, Huisjen?)
"I got a punitive for talking in class."

Okay, so maybe I should have reviewed punitive a little more. And it would help if they understood the difference between a noun and a verb...but that's next week's project...

Some quotable quotes:
Student 1: "What's it called when all of the words start with the same letter?"
Me: "You mean alliteration?"
Student 2: "I told you it wasn't algebra!"

Today I was talking to the class, standing near a student group, and a student raised his hand literally right in my face, and started waving it. I wanted to finish my point before calling on him, and halfway through my point, he says, "Don't you see my hand?" (maybe this was one of those "you had to be there" things...)

Wow. Long post. Coming soon: Top reasons why it's great to be an aunt - the illustrated version.