I have had students who had so much parental help and expensive private tutoring that, despite having terrific grades in private day schools and competitive public schools, they had trouble as first-term freshmen doing their own work.
You may give them a weekly allowance, or give them a certain amount of money for doing all their chores, or reward them for excellent behavior or terrific grades.
As I began to know the family, it was clear that Suzanne was a terrific teen who got excellent grades, was active in clubs and sports and had good friends.
As an anonymous movie critic at Time (articles in the magazine were then unsigned), Agee did a terrific job summarizing plots and themes, grade-sheeting performances, highlighting directorial touches.
Grade: 6. Miller was terrific in the first half with three catches for 61 yards and a touchdown.
If you're tired of reading, you may watch two terrific Kohn lectures on the DVD, No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning.
Good grades, great record of community service -- all terrific stuff.
It is in turn a terrific way to wind up enraged because you didn't receive the grade you felt you deserved, not to mention unemployed.
Left fatherless as a boy, motherless as an adolescent, he has looked to his boss, Bill (the terrific character actor Stephen Root), for paternal guidance and to his seventh-grade teacher, Macy (Sigourney Weaver, perfect), for something more than maternal comfort.
The Orange County Register's film critic Michael Sragow gave the film grade "A" and commented on three lead characters, "A trio of terrific performers imbues a riveting AIDS drama with heart and mind as well as pertinence".
Jeff Dodge of BuddyTV wrote that the episode was "very strong", while The A.V. Club Todd VanDerWerff, although he gave the episode a "B" grade, called it "forgettable" aside from Bomer's performance, which he described as "absolutely terrific".
