Ocaan

I was grading quizzes when I came upon a mysterious answer to the question, "What type of imagery does the author use in this passage?" Earl Chalmers, one of my seventh period kids, wrote only one word: "Ocaan."

I marked an X after puzzling over the response for a moment. Ocaan? Weird.

I finished the stack of seventh period papers and moved on to fifth period. The first paper belonged to Jimmy Jackson. What type of imagery did the author use, Jimmy? "Ocean."

To recap: Earl stole Jimmy's paper from the fifth period stack and copied his answers. He did not, however, account for Jimmy's interesting handwriting, blindly trusting Jimmy and his take on the Ocaanic imagery of the passage.

The icing on the cake? "Ocean" is pretty far off. The passage was about a river, and then only tangentially.