Short Story Assignment

[emreadeks]

Short Story Assignment
When I was a high school student,
I had a difficult mathematics test one day.
Before the test, our teacher told us,
“Use the same pencil you used when you studied last night.
When you can’t solve a problem, hold the pencil tightly.
If you do that, you will be able to solve the problem.”
I did that, and I got every answer right. I thought,
“This is my lucky pencil.
”But later I discovered that my pencil was lucky only sometimes. When I studied hard, my pencil helped me, but when I did not study hard, it didn’t help me.

[omersireci]

That's all right. Good job Mr. Eskicumali.

[Steven Hunley]

Same thing as the previous 'story'. You have the bare bones of a story, but no story as yet. The punctuation again is the problem. What someone says should be in quotes, not the sentence at the end, and then again, you're straining our believability to the limit. No teacher in his or her right mind would suggest holding a pencil a certain way to ensure a correct answer. There's more chance of finding a leprechaun in a hedge than squeezing a pencil to wring a correct answer out of if. Tell me, truly, what grade is this anyway?