Adventures in the Passé Simple

My French teacher was very astonished that we cannot write in the passé simple. She would like for us to write our final paper in that tense (or the historical present, which is the tense I'm using). So yesterday, she decided to "teach" us the passé simple. By "teach" I mean gave us a worksheet which, at the top, had the endings for regular verbs, and then below had "conjugate the verb" exercises. ALL the verbs in the exercises were irregular. Yeah....that helps. So anyways, we went through each one as a class. So she would ask what the answer was for a verb, and people would just begin shouting out anything that it could possibly be, anything that had maybe a similar root and endings that sound like the ones of the regular verbs. It was quite an adventure. but it was HILARIOUS. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time because non of us were really sure what the response was and were shouting out all manner of answers, and our teacher was a mix of amused and surprised. She is sometimes surprised at our American-ness. Which is always interesting (she's my first French teacher here at Midd who's French, so it's a different dynamic and very interesting).