Busted! I Got Caught Plagiarizing My Homework
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- Birt 5 feb 2019
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Naomi was always a good student, and took her classwork seriously, and her grades. At the end of middle school, in eight grade English class, the teacher gave them a creative writing assignment. Their homework was to be a real writer and go home and write a poem to present to the rest of the class.
The teacher gave the class three weeks to really think about it and work on it and write the poem, but for Naomi it was just three long weeks of procrastinating. She just couldn't pull any of her ideas together.
She really couldn't think of anything, and either she was bad at writing poems, or like a lot of famous writers, she just had writer's block. No matter what, she was unmotivated and uninspired and this had grown into way more than just a homework assignment - it overwhelmed her.
Finally, with just a day left, she went on Google and looked up poems and famous writers, because, well, she wanted to cheat. She knew plagiarism was wrong, and she had never copied any famous writers before or plagiarized anything, but she was frustrated and desperate, and, at the time, she didn't think she'd get caught.
The one key fact that she conveniently forgot was that at her school (and probably most schools) the teachers were very big on doing your own original work and never copying, or cheating on tests or homework, or stealing other people's ideas. Plagiarizing, especially copying a famous writer for your homework, was a major offense. But, she wasn't thinking about getting caught, she was just thinking about getting her homework assignment done.
She searched around on Google and found the perfect poem by a perfectly famous writer. She changed a coupe of words here and there - not that that did much good - and she just went ahead and printed up and turned it in.
The next day in class the teacher went around handing the poems back to the class BUT she skipped Naomi. It was pretty clear, she got caught and there was nothing she could do. Then the teacher asked her to join her in the hall and that was that. She burst into tears and was so embarrassed and ashamed of herself for plagiarizing and copying a famous writer. She got busted.
She got a referral, which is like part of your permanent school record, and lunchtime detention for a week, but her teacher was really sweet and understanding. Naomi just crumbled under the pressure and made a super bad choice. Her teacher said she could take another try and write a new original poem and that she would just deduct ten points from the grade for her little brush with plagiarism and getting caught.
Her dad was really upset about it and he gave her a long talking to, and the detention gave her a lot of time to think about it. She learned her lesson - never copy other people's work or plagiarize - and to just breathe and put in the work and effort.
She worked really hard to make sure her next poem was good, but also didn't get all crazy about it, and she really liked what she wrote and got a good grade on it too!
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i could write a poem in a hour,y did ur teacher give you 3 weeks?
she forget to write “this poem is copyrighted”
**feels bad
But this sounds like my L.a teacher 😂😂
I did that too for LA
Omg girl we g to the same shool
My son once got an award for the best poems for moms and he wrote a nice poem about my wife and he won an amazing award. Thinking back I think that both of my kids can be so loving to their mother.
Fun fact, when you're a grown-up everyone cheats. Tell your bosses will be the ones that do heavy drugs. So kids, cheat early, and do lots of drugs.
Naomi is my name 2!!!
I always cheat on test ._.
but don't tell anyone ;-;
Half of our class did that for a book report and my teacher didn't care
what when we write poems we only have like one day and im a 4th grade
Is that a dime?
Wait that rhymes!
AND I DO IT EVERY TIME!!!!
Did you pot your school name
My sisters poem: roses are red violets are blue when I see you I'd rather say "ew".
Our school is also big on plagiarism...like one time we were like to our teacher (jokingly) “we’re just gonna plagiarise😂” and the teacher also laughed and said...”we actually know how to know that you plagiarised...we have ways” we’re like ok?
My filipino teacher explained that to us
*if you're gonna plagiarise, atleast take the least popular poem dummy*
0:18 When I was...
A YOUNG BOY!!
Can you only submit one thing about your life or u can do it as many as u want or something????
I also got caught plagiarizing in English class. We had to write a blog that was worth 70 points but I had no idea what to write so I plagiarized. My teacher knew I plagiarized because he said the blog was “too good,” so he searched it up and he found it. Although I changed up some words but it was still obvious. And since I an a good student and everyone thinks I’m smart and since this is also my first time plagiarizing, he deducted 10 points. But I didn’t get any detention though. Phew 😅
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THEY WORRIED ABOUT COPYING WHEN AT MY SCHOOL THEY GET MAD AT US FOR WANTING TO DRINK SOME DAMN WATER AFTER LUNCH
I use to do it and never get caught
Wellll if ur a good student thennnnnnnnnn
If u think yr bad at poems then use that as your motivation, write a poem about that. like come on, smh
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i did that before😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢
You have 3 week? God, I have only 1 day to do a long poem, so you’re actually really, really lucky
they should really edit or do some shots, i know it’s only a short story but a lot of the time the grammar is bad and they say a lot of, and pretty much, like, so yeah, then it was like, etc. it’s kinda annoying. also, right at the beginning it doesn’t start of with an intro. it’s just “hey so in this grade we had to do this so pretty much i was like this and then this happened it was so bad but i learned it was ok so now i’m fine”
Why the heck does she looks like Sakura from Naruto????
Captions stop at 0:56
Screw poetry just playgurise another pome and change alot if things
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Same im bad at poems
At 0:19 she wasnt clicking the backspace, She was clicking the Esc button.
i love haiku haha
i plagerised before because we got papers i got jackie joyner kersee i had to write all about her
lol ik this isnt plagerising if they alow us to do it
*tori is that you*
You know what I will do I will just watch some baby show and try to find poems in the show and then the teacher will never know cause she doesn’t watch baby shows does she
This drawing is different from yours drawing
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I suck at poems
What about you?
Hi
Hello
This is a poem I wrote myself it's called "Alaska's Cosmic Night Sky". I wrote it out of my love for space and Alaska (my paradise)
Alaska itself is beautiful also the cloudless night sky itself is beautiful. The sun's solar wind comes through the north pole producing the iconic Northern Lights. All the galaxy's stars, star clusters, and constellations in the northern hemisphere are visible. The Milky Way itself is also visible along with Andromeda Galaxy above the Andromeda constellation. You can see Sirius A the brightest star in the sky also unique stars : Spica blue in the sky, Betelgeuse and Arcturus red in the sky, Capella flashing green and yellow in the sky, and Polaris always pointing north. To touch it off, there's the full moon of Luna but let's not forget the planets of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. If you decide to stargaze in the Last Frontier with your boyfriend/girlfriend as a date and start at the crack of nighttime, beware you'll be so hooked to the beauty that you'll be stargazing till the crack of dawn. stargazing in Alaska is something that'll be fun for you especially to space fans.
NOTE: don't plagiarize this poem or you'll suffer the pharaoh's curse.
If your gonna cheat don’t use a famous poem, and change the whole poem but keep it matching. So keep the poem as an outline lol
Fair use
:0 I did the same for a peom and my name is Naomi
Wait nobody cares
That sound like my school lunch detention and referrals hmmm
0:04 tords hood
White people shit like for real
Some teachers type your poem into Google, so beware! 😂
Wtf, thats literally what i do every day with my homeworks LOL
When I plagiarized my mom laughed because I made sure she would read it and it was in my own words I SWEAR and she said it’s fine your alive 😂😂😂
Plagiarism is common in my school.. Everyone does that..
Im bad at poems too
Im bad at poems too
Me its fine our teacher is nicw we were allowed to copy on google
Ha i don't gave me some time in the middle of nowhere and you can get a hold of him and I will try to make it up to today then we can get a hold of him and I have 86hvh how are u doing today and it was a little bit of the African American Idol Finale Countdown to be with you in the middle of nowhere and you can get a 76hh yoga pants and a little bit of a good night and sweet drug test for the next time I see you in my room and I have to 45hgu Hugh Grant Morrison and I don't know if you want me to do hers to get a room together 4😕😈😈😉😆😂😕😑😇😂😉😨😧😲😳😱😳😱😱😱😱😵😶😰😨😘😗😙😗😒😍😘😘😘😪😏😚😚😘😗😖guy d to be in the middle of the African countries and the kids are so sweet and 85 u know what you are talking makes me feel 8gruhk how are you doing today babe I 😍 you so much fun to 5hcFYI the hug hi go yogi sorry
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And this is crazy
So here's mah comment
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Technically it’s not plagiarism, because she didn’t copy the *EXACT* words, she changed them up. Still there should be a punishment for coping.
Rose's are red violets are blue
Sugar Is sweet and so are you
But the roses are wilted and the violets are dead the sugar bowl is empty just like you're head
Boi your odd ones out
You could use poem books for an idea 💡 📝
Only 10pts off?!?
Your lucky, you got a nice teacher. Instead of talking it out, I’m not trying to sound bad to my teacher and I’m not gonna spill who she is but she told me I disappointed her and that is why I’m super depressed (I got a referral too)
how do you get an A with minus ten points?
Guys btw if you plagiarized someone's work you can get kicked out of college, high school, or your job. Also it goes on your record making it harder to get into a new school and to get into a new job
FUCK YOUUU
OMG THIS IS LIKE THE LOUD HOUSE THAT LICOLN HAD A PROJECT ABOUT WOOD AND HE JUST TOOK HIS BIRD HOUSE!!! did anyone else notice (if u watch loud house)
I word read
I am bad at school and I get too many referrals but now I don't get that much referrals like 1 a month
I did this before 😬😂😂😂 I actually just looked on google for poems and I found this one poem that was decent well at least to me 😂😂😂 I turned it in and the next day my teacher said that it didn’t fit the theme of the type of poem we had to write but she said that it was so beautiful and unique and she asked if she could use it with her other classes 😂😂 so I’m over here shooketh!!! That she didn’t notice that I Googled the poem 😂😂😂 so that’s how that turned out
My teacher gave me 6 assignments and I only had 5 days to do it.
I plagiarized my Process Report in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade for the history fair. I got 1st on my first and last year, but I got second in 7th grade. 💀
How to avoid plagiarism:
1. Find the source
2. Find at least 4-5 key words such as “Cheating, Credit, Significance, Risky”
3. Make a sentence or paragraph out of those words.
Plagiarism is a form of *cheating.* Plagiarism is when you take an author’s perfectly written work and not giving *credit* to them, making “your” work claimed by you. Plagiarism is very *risky* when it comes to school and college, and there is a *significance* on why plagiarism is intentional and unintentional.
smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
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You changed the words so that doesn't count
What kinda of school is this
I love her name
2-3 weeks?! We had a poem presentation and the deadline is only 3 days
Her: we got 3 weeks to write a poem...
My teacher: you have 1 day to write this literary essay. We will probably have a snow day, so I expect you to work on it at home.
Me: wut
(This is true btw 😭)
roses are red
violets arent blue
they are purple
so stfu
Leave a like if you cheat or not
You ain’t a good student..... if you was a good student you wouldn’t do that... sooooooo..... you is a bad ass student.
I always do that and never get caught
Good thing that i dont have poetry.
If i had i would be dead and be in grade 3
Is her hair THAT GOOD?????????!!!!!!!!
that's not what my school considers plagiarism only when you copy word for word....
Wait I want to ask this question does she go to Alexandria middle school?
Well sometimes our school have lunch detention to :/
Oh :/
No she goes Walt Whitman middle school
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If you are bad at poems just write a poem about how bad you are at writing poems and then it won't seem so bad when you read your poem!
*Problem solved!*
*my teacher does this*
to me that's honestly the stupidest thing that you could do if your in English class because English teachers read poems in a lot of books in the know the Arthur's and they know the words of almost every poem so of course you're going to get caught
Noob. You gotta change the language like 5 times.
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