Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for May 18, 2014

You prepared for it?Focused?Awesome!!!!Gina clearly is all of those things but the latter.

….and down goes nate with the very first question!! btw i know this seems stupid but can someone tell me what P.S stands for? like at the end of messages ‘P.S i hate you’ and that! don’t laugh.

Oh, that’s just the first question.

THIS IS WHAT,5TH GRADE????

too much for his grade ?

C’mon Nate

That is NOT a 6th grade question. Try college level.

Says dollno5 is completely right.

The functional translation of P.S. would be “afterthought”. In the pre-digital age of handwritten or mechanically typed correspondence, there was no way of adding new text to the body of a letter once you had signed it. If you had another thought to add, your only options were to start over or to add a “post script” to the the completed letter.

In the digital age, it is largely just a stylistic choice.

I’m sorry Nate.

That’s not college level, that’s middle school. Maybe not sixth grade, but that would be a reasonable question on an eighth grade test. Good for Mrs. Godfrey for pushing her students to achieve.

Owch….?

ZOUNDS!! At the conclusion of the past week’s story thread, I thought that Nate is cocked, aimed and ready to be launched into summer school this year…………..today, I’m SURE he is!!! Snark! SNARK!!

Can’t be too hard. Republicans vs Democrats

BTW, can one of you kind folks inform me of the “Kelly” summer. you know, the LAST time Nate had to do summer school? There’s something there that the G-Lady said….something funny that really blew Nate’s mind…but I don’t remember what it was. I remember her face expression (hilarious!!! She was really digging into Nate, knew it, and was thoroughly enjoying it!) and the remark started with “Here’s a thought:…..” Please folks….Glee! GLEE!!

All right, no one’s posted an essay yet. I’m waiting….

Nate’s positive thinking went down the drain,

Hmmm… this sounds like college level not middle school and yes, he’s hosed.

You were definitely NOT prepared, Nate!

Slavery/Civil war and politics.

That’s 6th grade stuff? I’m in 7th, and I can’t do that. Mabye it’s because I have a c in social studies and bs in my other classes.

Hosed by your own pile of schoolwork……..wait,should I bring his homework into this?……

I would’ve personally picked the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

THIS AINT SIXTH GRADE STUFF!

We do not have questions like this in sixth grade social studies!

you should get rid of awesomes

Easy, Democrats vs Republicans and North vs South during the Civil War

How are you suppose to prepare for something like that on a test? That seems like something that would be a week’s assignment.

Well, it doesn’t specify what issue or even the time period, and we know controversy is something Nate is usually aware of, so he might do ok.

I could answer that

he’s not prepared, focused, awesome, or hosed. he’s dead