An Obituary

There are several words in our English language that are boring, overused, and just plain useless.  I love descriptive writing and encourage my students to write by "painting a picture in the reader's mind."  I guess if I were to teach my students one thing, it would be to use more details and descriptions.  Thus leads us to our Classroom Cemetery.  It is simply a bulletin board decked out in dark, spooky borders and headstones.  Floating above my clipart headstones are the words we have "laid to rest."  Some of these words include look, really, went, well, said, big, nice, great, good, and beautiful.  4th hour has decided to lay a new word to rest:  stuff.  THANK GOODNESS!

Here is an obituary for the word stuff as written by 4th hour's very own Alyse:

Stuff, of Boring Words United, died September 30, 2010 in Mrs. Heinz's classroom after a long life of making students' writing boring.  Born in 2000 BC into the boring word family of things and items, stuff was an extremly boring word that loved to jump into sentences around the world. 

Stuff went on to bore many other essays and papers as it grew to become overwhelmingly popular.  This word died a boring death, just as it liked it.  Boring, uneventful, and unexciting were all of its purposes in life and now they have all been fulfilled. 

The funeral will be held in Mrs. Heinz's graveyard.  Stuff's burial place will be along other boring words such as: very, so, and wait for it....awesome. 

Perhaps the next word we bury should be boring?!