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Their penultimate assignment was to write a either a rant (loosely modeled on Knox McCoy’s Things That Piss Me Off: Abusers of the Migraine Label) or a Top 10-ish list (loosely based on Clay Morgan’s 16 Reasons To Love or Leave Canada). My Grade 8 students are near the end of a humour unit. Suffice it to say that my brain has been one gig short of a gigabyte. I’ve been sick this week, not from eating dog, though that would be a nice example of cause-and-effect.

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