My 4th grade teacher read it to us. I loved it but, then again, he was a wonderful storyteller. I still have my dog-eared copy which is over 50 years old. I didn't care for the movie, though.
On forced reading.
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My 4th grade teacher read it to us. I loved it but, then again, he was a wonderful storyteller. I still have my dog-eared copy which is over 50 years old. I didn't care for the movie, though.
Aye - that was one we took turns reading aloud in class - I didn't really understand any of it. Drunken debauchery.Hey, sister!! Been known to do that, too!!!
I was lucky in that 1) I enjoyed most of what we were assigned to read, 2) I also got to choose some things along the way, and 3) we didn't have to "annotate" and "highlight examples of ...." like my daughter is being made to do. She still enjoys reading, but the picking apart really does take you out of the story and makes you lose the enjoyment.
Editing to add: The Canterbury Tales by Chaucher were my LEAST favorite "forced reading".
We had to memorize the prologue. 35 years later, I can still recite it.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote......
Yeah, I'm not sure we have enough wine to help that!We had to memorize the prologue. 35 years later, I can still recite it.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote......
......or a big enough sippy cupYeah, I'm not sure we have enough wine to help that!
I know this is hard to believe, but I was somewhat rebellious during my high school years. If we had assigned reading that I didn't think I'd like, I just didn't read it.
I listened to discussions in class, and aced every essay.
Books I skipped included The Scarlet letter, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Gone With The Wind, The Catcher in the Rye, and 1984.
I loved reading Hamlet, Beowulf, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Tale of the Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and How to Kill a Mockingbird.
I listened to discussions in class, and aced every essay.
Books I skipped included The Scarlet letter, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Gone With The Wind, The Catcher in the Rye, and 1984.
I loved reading Hamlet, Beowulf, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Tale of the Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and How to Kill a Mockingbird.
Had to read that in my freshman lit class in college. Awful.
The main theme is, "What do we covet?"
I had to read The Scarlet Letter in freshman lit in HS. Yawn
Read 1984 on my own. More relevant now than ever before. Same with Fahrenheit 451.
Totally agree about relevance today.
I still haven't read either one.
I agree, when YouTube was blocked on the school computers last year I sure felt like I was being oppressed by a government-funded-program
We had to memorize the prologue. 35 years later, I can still recite it.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote......
Egad!Yeah, I'm not sure we have enough wine to help that!
I had to memorize Shakespeare's Good Advice - but I still love it.
The Ogre called me at work this morning to get my wine list for the weekend. My boss was standing behind me (I didn't know!). Shameful. "Chardonnay for tonight because it's do nothing Friday!!, but Cabernet for tomorrow because your mom's coming over and I don't need a fast buzz, but definitely Pinot Noir for Sunday after Mass. BTW - I highly recommend all that.
Well, government oppression and good educational policy are two entirely different animals. Although, pubic schools are government funded so I guess you could argue the point.
If it were up to me, I'd institute a no electronic devices, social media, or visiting entertainment sites on school computers on campus policy kindergarten - HS. No need for it. Generations got by without being glued to a smartphone all day.
College is a different story. At that point, people are supposed to have somewhat of an idea of responsibility.
Of course, that is my cynical GenX bias kicking in
You should read them. I like Fahrenheit 451 best of the two.