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Reading books for class always make me parinoid while I am reading them. I freak out that I am going to forget that one non-important detail that is going to be on the quiz and then the test. It ruins being able to relax by reading. It stinks when they draw it out forever too.
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"The Giver" by Lois Lowry was killed in english class TT3TT
At first I found it interesting, but once we had to do assignments, I begin hating it. |
The assignments weren't what killed books for me. It was when the teacher would make people read aloud in the class. Half of them couldn't pronounce simple words, or they read very slowly. I mean, I'm not the best at reading aloud either, so I don't want to offend anyone, but it still makes a book horrible. I know it's not really a book, but this is one of the reasons I hated the play 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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I'm not really sure.
But there's one thing I really know. I hate my English teacher. i really do. It's like he's not a teacher at all. Everybody hates him. But he just doesn't get it. He gives us a lot of unnecessary work to do. he consumes all of our break time. he gives us a lot of assignments. It seems like his world revolves around English and english only. he's so narrow-minded. He doesn't inspire us. He unconsciously makes us hate him. he's a natural-born hate-prone person. I hate him. |
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I never had a terrible experience with reading books in class. It really depended on the teachers style.most of the time I had the easygoing teachers who liked reading and only assigned work when they thought the class couldn't understand the topic. But I really lothe a book when I hate the book or find the book boring and i am required to read the book and write something on it. An example of this momentis when i had read the crucible last year and i had to find symbolism in a puritan witch trial.
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Nothing that I formerly liked has ever been killed in an English class, though there are one or two things that possibly could be, at least for a time. However, I think there might have been a chance that I could have liked Dickens' Hard Times had I not had to brutally analyze it. That was three years ago, though, and I think there may be hope now that I could read some of his books without instinctively cringing.
Also, thanks to AP English, I think Ophelia of Hamlet shall be forever beyond my understanding. Certainly there is a point at which beating understanding out of any story (or aspect of a story) leaves it with nothing that is worth understanding. |
I've never really read any books before we had to do them as a class assignment. Except To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby we don't read until second semester.
It has been so long since I read either of them, that I probably won't be affected by having to take tests and quizes and such. |
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For some reason, school makes me hate every book they make us read. o.o
I only realized this after we read a story by Edgar Allen Poe. School make the story seem so corny... |
I remember I read The Stand in high school. I had to write a 5 page report on it, plus take several "custom" tests based on the book. After that, I had to bring the movie in so that the whole class could watch it. As you might imagine, that went over well with the squeamish girly-girls. After that, I had to present a report based on the differences between the book and the movie.
I still love the movie, but the thought of sitting down with that monstrosity of a book just puts me completely off. I'm glad I am out of school now and can read a book for simple pleasure! *The Stand is by Stephen King by the way. |
Augh, that happens to me... but in a slightly different way.
Whenever we read any plays in class (mostly Shakespeare), people would be assigned to read as the characters... whether they wanted to or not. This, I'm sure, is a relatively common occurance... Except... Most of the people reading had no desire to enjoy what they were doing. They read the lines slowly, dully, and often tripped over the words to the point where the meaning was completely lost. Of course, Shakespeare IS hard to read for many people, but still. I can still remember the dull monotone of most of their voices, and it's ruined a lot of Shakespeare for me. I didn't enjoy any of the plays we read. If only we could have read them on our own... |
well - actually i'm kind of the opposite - I was forced to read books for all my AP english classes in highschool and some i would love and others I would hate. but there was this one book called Watt that I hated when I read it because it was just so horrible - but after spending days analyzing it in class the first few days I really started to LIKE the book.
I also had to read Moby Dick - never thought I would read it in a million years until I had to for senior AP english and I ended up LOVING the book - it's one of my favourite books now :D |
I hate it when they shove otherwise wonderful books down our throats repeatedly.
But there are some books, like Huck Finn, that can be made even MORE amazing in an extended discussion. My english teacher this year is so fun. We have one assigned essay so far, and the final is 40 questions on Our Town, which we're reading this week, and the final is in five days. Also, he's letting us take the book into the final. xD |
Yes, too many good books have been killed in my English class @[email protected]
Like Hatchet. Everybody says it's a good book, but I just hate it now. We had to go watch the video and take NOTES on it and every few chapters we had to summarize it and come up with themes and draw pictures. Then we had to write an essay comparing the book to the movie...I hate that book to do this day now x___x And everybody read so slow too! We had to get into groups and this one girl in my group said she couldn't read a CHAPTER a day. So the rest of the group had to move at her slow pace. And half the time she didn't do the work we asked her to do for the group. Even if it was super-easy. So I had to do it :< Whenever I think of that book, I have bad memories D: But when I read Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in class, I really liked it- not because of my teacher, but because right after I started reading it, I went to a play of it which was extremely well-done. I guess that just brought it alive for me ^^ |
Too many good books have been killed in mine. We read 'Midnight Summer's Dream' and I utterly loved it, then she made us write 4 essays and do 5 presentations on it. By the end of that, I hated it; until I read Romeo and Juliet :D
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So far I have only liked two books that I was required to read in class. They were "The Giver" in eigth grade and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" last month (12th grade). Luckily for me, neither of those teachers were buttholes that made us do a bunch of crap on the book and totally overanalyze and ruin it for me. <3 THANKYOUTOTHEM<3
I relatively remember not hating "Hatchet" but my teacher read it aloud to us and her reading voice was so monotonous; I just couldn't keep my eyeslids up. I keep telling myself that some day I'm going to reread it, but I know, in all honesty, that I never will. But I know what you mean. I hated "To Kill a Mockingbird" to start with and just when I started thinking it was kind of cool, we got hit up with essays, projects, spelling words w/definitions, summarize this chapter, summarize the next one, take notes, blah blah blah. I wanted to be sick. I understand that we're supposed to understand the text and all, but there is a limit that should not be crossed. |
X.X My internet died when I was almost done writing my rant. And I lost my ideas. -- I'll try anyway.
In my case, it wasn't entirely the teachers fault. In my eighth grade year, our English teacher told us to read as many books as we could and present a brief description to the class. (The book had to be approved by him before hand if you weren't sure if it would be counted as a 'book' or a 'half-book'. So, you couldn't just read kiddie picture books. xP) There was one presentation I though utterly killed the book from my class. The student went up infront of the class and basically read of the back cover or something. There were no interesting events or anything. NOTHING. I read the book myself and it was actually okay. It had adventure and mystery and those are a couple of my favorite genres. But the student went up and made the book sound boring and dull by giving only the beginning details. He left out all the adventure and mystery that came out of the book. D; Instead of me wanting to murder the book, I wanted to murder the student standing up there! Murder him and give a different speech. But I couldn't say anything sadly and well, murder is out of the question when you're in a class packed full of students. ;P As for required reading from our classes, I can say I pretty much didn't read the books because they're too puny. I'm past the stage of reading 100 - 200 page books from the teen section if the teachers haven't realized. -sigh- |
Well I never mind making a book report or something after reading a book in class, in fact I enjoy it lol. Typing's my thing, what can I say? ;3
It's when I want to continue reading on in a class book, and I have to "follow along" with everyone else I want to bang my head repeatedly against a desk. I'm a fast reader and so it's annoying having to be on the same track as everyone else. Why can't I just read the damn thing alone? D8 |
you'll hate it even more if you study english at a higher level and all the critical thinking you have to do to get good marks. i have found that i only love book after the face. when i was in high school reading because i had to and on a dead line i hated reading. after high school i started re reading a lot of the books that i had been forced to read but this time i read them for my own enjoyment not struggling to pull out random symbolism and whatnot and i really enjoyed the books, some of them became my favorite books. but now i am doing a minor in english as an add on to my degree that i already have and i can safely say i hate reading with a critical eye. it makes the work so boring. you have to go slower and you can't get into a good sweep of things. and sometimes the books just become daunting. like right now i have to read david copperfield by charles dickens... that like 1000 pages of critical reading to see why dickens was a pioner and a best seller in victorian britain... really i don't care about dickens and why he was writing. i just want to get into the characters and the story and how all the events unfold.
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i read a book called the outsiders.
i didn't like it too, too much, but i enjoyed it. then my english teacher made us watch the movie; the movie totally killed it for me. it was THE worst book-based movie ever. it made me never want to read the book again. |
To Kill a Mocking Bird is still one of my favorite books, even though my 10th grade english teacher murdered it in an incredibly torturous manner. I swear it would have been less painfull if she took all of the copies of it in the world and lit them on fire after hacking them to pieces.
I am a speed reader also and I finished it within the first 24 hours of getting the book. It took us an entire semester, with winter break, to read it. She gave us tests on it and after a while I finally asked her to just give them all to me so I could slack off for the rest of the year. It worked. A Rasin In the Sun. Another book, well, technically a play, that as ruined by my 9th grade English teacher. It wasn't all that painful, but it was still bad. She dragged it out for ages and had some students act out parts. There were several thespians, including myself, in the class but she chose the individuals who could barely read a children's book much less a play. My forehead became very well aquainted with my desk. ( :headdesk: ) At the moment, we are reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Nothing has happened... yet... and I hope nothing does. |
i so know what you mean they just make you nit pick at everything in the book and by the end of you just never want to read that book again its the same as what they do with movies i use to love the matrix until they made us study it
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yea i know what you mean. i had the exact same thing but with the book, the giver.
i hated it! but it was so good : ( and we were so SLOW reading it! it took us months to read a book i could read in about 5 hours. so like when it started to get good i just read the whole thing. . . .then had to hear it all over again for weeks! *rolls eyes* whatever! i got the second one no less! but i still have yet to read the whole book and I've had it for over 2 years. |
I have had English teachers kill books in class, but I never actually liked the book in the first place, ^.^"
But since I didn't even like the book to begin with I get really pissed off when they make me do so many essays and projects on it, >.< But in 7th grade I read The Outsiders and The Giver and I loved those books! ^.^ Thank god my teacher was a understanding teacher and didn't kill the book, she just asked us to answer like 3 questions for each chapter *shrug* But my English teacher this year analyzes every freakin' DETAIL!!!! She comes up with theories about the characters personality that no one would ever think of!! D< So I'm glad this year so far we have only read a bunch of short stories! :D And they were stupid to start out with, -.- But it is sad when a teacher kills a book that you love. |
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