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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

First observation

Dorothea Lange. On the Road to Los Angeles, California, 1937
I gave my students this instruction: Describe what you see in this picture.

One student answered in five hundred words beginning with this sentence. "I see the beginning or end of a story that has two characters who have decided they will not or cannot board a train for a distant destination."

Did he pass this part of the exit exam for English as a foreign language? Why, or why not?