My daughter wrote a sentence with an oxymoron - honest politician.
Since art is a favorite subject for my 9 year old, I have been working to deeply incorporate it into her curriculum. This year she is using the book Teaching English Through Art for writing two days per week. The other days we work together to write and edit stories, descriptive works and other forms of writing. The book has been a big hit!
This week her assignment was to write a sentence containing an oxymoron. (An oxymoron is two words put together that don't normally go together.) The book gave several examples to choose from. With the presidential election only days away honest politician seemed like a natural choice for her.
Her sentence reads "Honest politicians are very rare. Hillary Clinton is not honest."
The other night at dinner, she added, "I hope Hillary doesn't win because I think I want to be the first female president. Or maybe I want to be a clothes designer."
Whoever wins, I hope will preserve Constitutional Freedoms.
Happy Election Day!
I am an American homeschooling mother of three living in Germany and raising one child with Leukemia.
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