I do not think I have ever had a book ruined for me in that way. I know that I actually prefer to study some books like that. For example I like to read Shakespeare in a class room setting because the group discussions make it easier to understand. But, then again, all of my English teachers have all been very fun people who have assigned fun activities rather then essays. English class was sometimes more like Drama class, or Creative Writing class, but we all learned a great deal. :)

oh yeah I remember one book killed by my teacher in my junior year. "lord of the flys" it's the one were these kids get stuck on an island. it was just brutally killed by the movie being shown and us having to compare it to the book and an essay on the kids and why they did what they did. and I think there was another part of it were we had to right something every chapter.

there was also animal farm, which I still love. I still love the movie too. my teacher tried to kill that one as well and almost succeeded.

yup.to kill a mockingbird.
we read it sophomore year.
and then she made us watch the movie.
which i thought was horrible.
so yea she killed it for me.

junior year. we had to watch a movie
cant remember what it was calle.d
it was agood movie. except the fact that
she started from the same point everday.
so we didnt get anywhere.

It was in grade five. We had to read Hatchet. Had we not gotten so much homework for it, I might have enjoyed it even a little bit. But our teacher made us, for each chapter, draw a picture, write a summary, and make a prediction for the next chapter. Now when you're nine years old, that's a lot to ask for. Especially since nothing really interesting happened.

I've actually had the opposite happen. I needed a book to read to write a book analysis on and my teacher (who was one of the best English teachers I've ever had) suggested that I read Lord of the Rings. I've been obsessed with the books since, even after I wrote the analysis.

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I honestly don't remember reading a book and having the fun kind of sucked out of the book because a teacher made me do lots of writing about it. I really loved to read in elementary and so on, and I also loved to write essays and whatnot about it.

The only thing I remember is sometimes the teacher picked a book that I didn't like and it took me a while to read because I didn't like it and never go into the book.

Off-topic, but I just read "To Kill a Mockingbird" last year... kind of late on it (but I owned it for a while, just never had time to read it and throughly enjoy it). I love/loved the book. :D

My teacher assigns about 150 questions for each book we read in class, and the test is an in-class essay. Way to suck the fun out of it. :/ At east she doesn't get mad at me for reading so fast. I finished The Great Gatsby before anyone else over winter break and shocked everyone.

I hate it when teachers ask you to predict what happens next. Sorry hunny, I've already finished the book, can't I just tell you what happened instead? It used to make teachers so mad. X3 I'm so glad the questions have gotten away from that. But then they ask you "what did the author mean by this?" or "why did the author make this happen?" and I feel like saying, "I don't know; why don't you just ask the author yourself?" :3

I never just read that book for my enjoyment. I HAD to read it for school. We spent a month studying it. Ohhh... so many worksheets, so many projects, so many essays! If someone mentions the book, it just stirs up all those feelings. D=

Sometimes. But I think if you really like the book and understand it well, then you should do well in the essays and perhaps even enjoy them. Just use it as an opportunity to express your love and knowledge of the book. Oh, and I saw "To Kill a Mockingbird" the play. It was put on by the students of the academy in my school district. Those were the longest and most boring two hours of my life.

ugh its just one of the main reasons i hate books the school gives us. i can't just injoy the book. no go find stof about the carackters. tell uss about it. why did you like that part.
prensent it to your class how could not care less about it.
i the part i hate more look up stuf from the autor. i hate it. i don't care if a donkey made the book, i like it or i don't.
they kild that good book for me.. i forgot the titel. its abouth 4 a 5 years ago.
queens crown...someting like that.

ow wel guss its live

Oh, me too. By the time we were close to half ways through, I was finished. >_<

Last year we read Chatcher In The Rye and the we had to write an essay of what we believe. Then we had to record it and send it in to the radio station or whatever. Then we had to write a symbolism paper about the book. Ugh!

Last year, and this year we had to study To Kill a Mockingbird. I really enjoyed reading the book (it took me about 3 hours in class), but then I had to read it again and again til the rest of the class had finished reading it.

Then we had to summerize each chapter and find relevant quotes, which was ok. But we all had to show everyone else what we had got, in a presentation-like thing. That was really boring.

And then we had to write SEVERAL essays on the different locations, characters, emotions, themes, etc.

I think we had just read it too much, and worked on it too much that I now dislike the book, even though it's really a good book and written very well. It's a shame really.

I loved The Tell-Tale Heart, but we have to do all this work on similes... Not that I don't like obeying the laws of literacy, but it's going a bit far. ;A;