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Wow.
That sucks.
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Reminds me of when they made us read "dumbed down" versions of Frankenstein, Hamlet and McBeth when I was in Grade 11 (third year of high school, junior year).
We read McBeth in 9th grade and Frankenstein in 11th grade .__. (And they had a whole Shakespeare elective)
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In 9th grade the only things I remember reading were The Goddess, Romeo & Juliet and To Kill A Mockingbird.
10 grade we read mostly American Literature stuff. I mostly remember The Scarlett Letter.
11th grade was McBeth, Frankenstein, The Canterbury Tales, the King Arthur stories, some stuff from Edgar Allen Poe and Lord Of The Flies.
12th Grade was Hamlet, The Things They Carried, The Epic Of Gilgamesh and a bunch of religious stuff.
Now that I'm an English major in college... I'm probably going to end up reading all of this stuff again.
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Oh well, it was The Iliad (or technically, "An Iliad") so it was worth it <3
@neko: Well in 9th and 10th grade you took English 9/10, then in 11th and 12th grade you took an English elective each semester, and almost all of those books were read in English 9/10 or one of the electives
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nekonohime wrote:
Yeah, our reading selections in high school were odd.
I had some pretty...different selections as well.
Let's see, for my English classes in high school, freshman year I had to read Hiroshima, Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm, The Odyssey, and The Giver. All were really good except for The Odyssey. I mean, the story itself was good and interesting, but I really didn't like the dialogue. Speech after speech after speech, although that's what Greek epics were about. Big heroic speeches and shit.
Sophomore year, I read a bunch of crap I didn't like except for You Don't Know Me. I don't remember any of the other books and stories because they were just that forgettable.
During my junior year, I had to read Of Mice and Men, Ender's Game, The Color Purple, and The Crucible. All were really good except for Ender's Game. I could not get into that story.
And then for my senior year, this is where it gets interesting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (yes, we had to read that. Why?? I have no clue.), Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, and Anthem by Ayn Rand. All were good, but I didn't really read A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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@filipinoamerican I don't know how she managed to mess that up. I actually got, like, a 97. But it was like, "LOLWUTDYAMEAN" when I got this back.
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I'm glad I realized when I was checking my work that "I get up at 6:30AM" make more sense than "I go to school at 6:30AM" xD (It was a dictation thing, and the word for "to wake up" is okimasu and the word for "to go" is ikimasu so...)
I also realized I might have forgotten to put in the particle -ni in one question!!!!!! D: ....I hope I didn't :x (cuz otherwise I'll have nanji in there all by its lonesome self...)
Also, right after seeing An Iliad yesterday for free, I got an e-mail about free tickets to a concert, so I'm seeing that next Sunday! Yay!
EDIT: Oh, and I just found out my Japanese final is going to be from 7:30 to 10:30.... PM T_T よくありません！！！
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Oh, and I forgot, but tomorrow I get to go home for a week for break yaaaaay~
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filipinoamerican wrote:
Wow. That's funny. I'm reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I was gonna read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne next. Both books are on my bookshelf for some reason. We also have Othello and about 2 other Shakespeare's stories. Odd...
I'm reading that right now. And I'm totally hating it, 'cuz it's RIGHT AFTER reading The Crucible... *censor BEEP*
We also read Romeo and Juliet in 10th grade, and in 9th grade, we read To Kill a Mockingbird.
10 grade also included Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and Night by Elie Wiesel. *FU--!* I hated my 10th grade English class.. But the only good thing about that year is that we read some book that ended with our class watching Steel Magnolias. XD (Ouiser had us cracking up near every time she was on.)
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It's going to be so fun to rip to pieces :D
(But really, that piece of crap SUCKED SO HARD)
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I actually didn't directly refer to that series! YAY! Now I have to remember the Caesar's English word that we learned last year that meant "not directly refering to".
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Cravat of Doom wrote:
"Implying"?
Nooo. It wasn't that word. And it was my favorite word, too! Grrrrrr.
MUST. FIGURE. OUT. WORD. GRAAAAAH.
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Edit: I. FOUND. THE. WORD!
Yeah... The word is allude. YEEAH, SUCKAS!! I figured it out!(not really... I looked it up on the internet xD But who really gives?)
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I was gonna read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne next.
I'm reading that right now. And I'm totally hating it, 'cuz it's RIGHT AFTER reading The Crucible... *censor BEEP*
We also read Romeo and Juliet in 10th grade, and in 9th grade, we read To Kill a Mockingbird.
10 grade also included Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and Night by Elie Wiesel. *FU--!* I hated my 10th grade English class.. But the only good thing about that year is that we read some book that ended with our class watching Steel Magnolias. XD (Ouiser had us cracking up near every time she was on.)
9th grade, my boring
10th grade, I'm pretty sure my English teacher was partially insane, which was totally awesome. Let's see, she had us read MacBeth (during which time she was always telling us she was Lady Gaga, and dressed up for Halloween as a cross between Gaga and Lady MacBeth), Night, and.. and.. Oh! And some existentialist book written by Albert Camus. I can't remember what it's called though, which is frustrating because I HATED that book.
This year, we're doing the Crucible, and later in the year we'll do the Scarlet Letter, Hamlet (because apparently you have to do 1 Shakespearean work a year), and something else. I think it's Dollhouse? Something along those lines. It always takes at least a month to read a book in school, because we always take a week to do a segment, then we do some discussions, blah blah blah, MOVIE TIME, CLASS!
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The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
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Wow. That... That's really weird. I...just...can't believe a teacher like that wold actually go up to the girl, take her phone, and start talking to the person. Is that an evasion of privacy? It kinda sounds like it is. Wow. I don't think that they do that to the middle schoolers at our school. All the eight graders tell me that they text in class and the teacher doesn't notice.
Everyone texts in class at my school. And I'm pretty sure it would be illegal, since it's Invasion of Privacy. Yea, that's like the lady down the street from me going through everyone's trash, even when the cops are called on her numerous times.
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And lol some lady is digging around people's trash, Steel Turnabout? Reminds me of all the hobos that congregate near my university... Mainly because it's right in the middle of the capital city in my state.
I also think it's kind of funny and sad at the same time that there is a hookah shop right across the street from the building that class in in.
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Athena von Karma wrote:
This year, we're doing the Crucible, and later in the year we'll do the Scarlet Letter, Hamlet (because apparently you have to do 1 Shakespearean work a year), and something else. I think it's Dollhouse? Something along those lines. It always takes at least a month to read a book in school, because we always take a week to do a segment, then we do some discussions, blah blah blah, MOVIE TIME, CLASS!
That sounds similar to my Eng. class this year, only we're doing American Lit. the first semester, and British Lit. the second semester.
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I've got an absolutely HILARIOUS story from my horrible Women's Studies class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
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I've got an absolutely HILARIOUS story from my horrible Women's Studies class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
WTF is right. That is seriously out of order. Was anything else done about it? :/
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I've got an absolutely HILARIOUS story from my horrible Women's Studies class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
Mmmmm, if a teacher was really explicit about not liking cell phones, and a cell phone near the front of the room rang, I could see the teacher taking the cell phone, saying "XXX has a class right now" and hanging up and giving the phone back. Tbh... whatever >_> If the teacher started having a long conversation, or then dwelt on it, or didn't return the phone or something, but if she just said that the person had a class and then hung up... get over it it's really not that embarassing.
Although saying "This class is not a democracy! I can do what I want!" is a bit weird. (Although so far two of my teachers have gone on "I do what I want!" spiels... in terms of giving out more A's than the university wants them to xDDD)
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He then kept pronouncing it like like that.
After that, we watched a bunch of videos about walking tractors. Man, I love chemistry.
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I've got an absolutely HILARIOUS story from my horrible Women's Studies class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
The teacher was doing her lecture, and suddenly in the middle of the class someone's phone rang. Normally teachers at university would ignore it or just tell us to turn the sound off on the phone, but no, THIS teacher actually goes up to this girl, takes her phone and starts talking to the person that called her! She said something along the lines of "[Insert name here] is in class right now]".
The ENTIRE class looked at the teacher like WTF and one girl even said, "Don't do that! You're seriously humiliating her!" And the teacher replies, "This class is not a democracy! This is MY class and I can do whatever I want!" or something like that. Seriously, this teacher is such an arrogant little bitch. And not to mention totally ignorant.
I seriously did NOT expect that to happen. AT ALL. Sure, they do that kind of shit in middle school and high school, but NOT university. Sometimes I feel like I lose brain cells going to this class.
Mmmmm, if a teacher was really explicit about not liking cell phones, and a cell phone near the front of the room rang, I could see the teacher taking the cell phone, saying "XXX has a class right now" and hanging up and giving the phone back. Tbh... whatever >_> If the teacher started having a long conversation, or then dwelt on it, or didn't return the phone or something, but if she just said that the person had a class and then hung up... get over it it's really not that embarassing.
Although saying "This class is not a democracy! I can do what I want!" is a bit weird. (Although so far two of my teachers have gone on "I do what I want!" spiels... in terms of giving out more A's than the university wants them to xDDD)
What makes this especially ironic is the context...a Women's Studies class.
Shows you what those militant feminists are really after...
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Hmm... I'm also very jittery. I'm not sure if it's the helping of candy I just had or the fact that I'm going on my OVERNIGHT FIELD TRIP! I haven't even packed yet, but who cares? It's gonna be from Wed.-Fri., and it's gonna be epiiiiic. The only bads things are that I am on bus 2, and all my friends are on bus 1. I wanna be on bus 1! *pouts* I think that everybody who is in Mr. Math's Homeroom is on bus 1, and Mr. Math's class is full of the most funnest people EVAH! I'm stuck diagonal from this mean girl in Mrs. L.A.'s class. At least my room mates are AWESOME!
Wah. I just realized since I won't be home for 3 days, I won't be on CR for 3 days.
WAAAAAH! I'll say goodbye the night before I leave, I PROMISE(which is tomorrow)! If I break that promise I'll hate myself for the whole trip.Crap. I have to go. My mom's pestering me to go take a shower now. BYE!!
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For my school adventures, I got my group for my Women's Studies group presentation at the end of the semester. Basically we were allowed to pick any topic we want, but we have to do the presentation in 20 minutes. No more, no less. The teacher will force us to stop if we go over the limit. Also, we have to grade each group, which I HATE doing. I had a group presentation like this at my community college and it sucked, because everybody graded me HORRIBLY.
Funny thing about this is, the teacher put on the criteria sheet "No one is allowed to give anybody an A." WHAT. THE.FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
That means even if they did really well, us peers will only be allowed to give a B as a highest grade to other groups. What a rip!
Oh, and the topic my group picked? The oppressive nature of pornography and sex-trafficking within the east coast of the United States (where I'm from).
FINALLY, something that I can actually agree with.
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Oh, and the topic my group picked? The oppressive nature of pornography and sex-trafficking within the east coast of the United States (where I'm from).
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Hope you have fun on my trip!
Also, we have to grade each group, which I HATE doing. I had a group presentation like this at my community college and it sucked, because everybody graded me HORRIBLY.
Also, we have to grade each group, which I HATE doing. I had a group presentation like this at my community college and it sucked, because everybody graded me HORRIBLY.
Yep. Even though it's supposed to be educational, our Social Studies teacher told us that we can have fun. We can't buy or bring candy, but last year both of my room mates bought candy. I was the only one who didn't buy candy, 'cause I'm a good little innocent sweet child.
Okaaayyy. So maybe I'm not THAT innocent. I can be very... mean at sometimes. But I'm the youngest in my house hold family! Aaand I'm a child. See? I didn't lie about 2 things!I remember we had to grade each other once. In fact, we just did that in our L.A. class. At the start of the year we had 3 projects on 3 books that we read over the summer from the summer reading list, and we had to share those with the whole class. I failed horribly, though probably only the teacher noticed. I sneaked a peek at what others graded me, and I got all O's(outstanding) and one U(unsatisfactory). So most people gave me the best grade and the lowest grade. I probably got all those O's because of the quality of my project, but I probably got that U because I spoke in a soft voice, and I had to repeat the poem that I did for one of the books because my voice was too soft. We did this same thing last year, I got a B+ last year.
Last year, we were doing a play(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) . Each grade has to put on a play, and you have to audition for the part. First I tried out for Becky, and I didn't even study my lines. So, I failed. The next part I tried out for was Muff, the innocent man accused of murder. I was surprisingly good, and got the part of the understudy. Apparently I had a lot of emotion. I memorized my lines. People said they thought that I was even better than the person who was actually playing Muff in the play. When the person who was actually playing Muff was out, I got to be Muff in the practice. I got to push around my friend and beg Injun Joe not to tell anybody. Mrs. L.A. said she liked how I went all "buddy buddy" on Injun Joe. All the understudies got to watch the real people practice. I watched the actual person for Muff(she was one of my really good friends at the time) and she barely had any emotion. I really did not want to tell her that because then she would go all "HUMPH" on me and give me the silent treatment. Well the understudies all got to be in the one part where we yell at Muff. My most favorite line was when all the understudies got to yell, "SHUT UP!!" at Muff. It was awesome. I got an A... I think. Anyway, our play sucked, but we put our BEST FOOT FORWARD! I really hope we get to write our own play like the 5th graders did last year. Their's involved singing, and catchy tunes. Their play was waaaaaay better than ours.
Re: Let's Talk About The New School Year
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