65 Reasons We Love Mrs. DeLong’s Class

Julia Themm and Sarah Schultz ’15

Staff Writers

Mrs. DeLong is a true treasure to have here at Nouvel and today she is turning 65 years young! To celebrate this special day in her life, we have come up with 65 reasons why we love her and her class:

1. She has the best smelling candles in her room.
2. Her coffee always smells delicious too.
3. She always has the cutest bracelets.
4. Her digressions within the class.
5. All of the profound connections.
6. Hugemongous
7. Her vast literary knowledge.
8. Her delightful Disney decorations around the room.
9. Her wall of senior pictures.
10. Sneaky snacks, tricky treats, discrete delicacies.
11. Her quirky hand gestures.
12. The infinite love for Grendel and Beowulf.
13. Stan and Helen.
14. We love being “sad sorry people.”
15. Her bubble screen saver.
16. Her A-lussions.
17. “Oh well!”
18. Experiencing The DeLong Difference.
19. “What a Thought”
20. Jalalalalalalalabad
21. S.O.A.P.S. Tone.
22. We love annotating about how to annotate.
23. Her Satirical connections.
24. Cooookies
25. Her literary criticisms.
26. Her overall love for Disney.
27. Room 101.
28. Nobody really thinks she’s a B.
29. Skinny and fatty.
30. “I had a moment…”
31. Being pinched with a binder clip.
32. The bat.
33. Her BFF relationship with Mrs. Wheatley.
34. Big Brother is always watching you.
35. True and false sections on the tests – we love them.
36. All of the quizzes we are threatened with.
37. turnitin.com
38. Endless vocab.
39. Her unique handwriting.
40. Verbal graffiti. (Mrs. DeLong we hope you’re writing these down)
41. Language. Structure. Tone.
42. She is always at school by 6 a.m.
43. She is always there to listen.
44. turnitin.com title contest.
45. Didactic
46. Her use of diction.
47. Ummmmmm….
48. Start over.
49. Q.V.T
50. Discussion topics.
51. What you think your paper should get Vs. What you actually get.
52. Circle time.
53. Her laugh.
54. Always watching movies in her class 😉
55. She treats like we are her kids.
56. “The Little People.”
57. The 30-minute presentations.
58. Yahoos and Houynmnms.
59. Her cute mugs for her delicious smelling coffee.
60. Spending mornings with her.
61. How she devotes so much of her time on her students.
62. Writing guidelines section in our notebooks.
63. Do not dare come to class out of dress code.
64. Standing in the back of the room if you’re sleeping.
65. We all wish she was our grandma.

Mrs. DeLong we all hope you have a birthday that is as fabulous as you are! Thank you for being the literary goddess of our lives. We all love you <3