It does and I always tried to make it so that my students enjoyed every read.Don’t worry Spidey, I was joking. I just find that picking apart every sentence of a novel takes the point out of reading it.
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It does and I always tried to make it so that my students enjoyed every read.Don’t worry Spidey, I was joking. I just find that picking apart every sentence of a novel takes the point out of reading it.
What novels did you have students read?It does and I always tried to make it so that my students enjoyed every read.
Hey, sister!! Been known to do that, too!!!I'll read a cereal box to entertain myself.
I was told to read Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener.
I said I'd prefer not to.
I was told to read Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener.
I said I'd prefer not to.
retired teacher here-- not good advice. It got me in trouble back in HS and it will do the same with you. Much of these exercises in analyzing writing style and author's meaning is to teach about structure, to use your imagination as to why things were laid out in that manner. Some author are very generous in explaining their methods and reasons why they did this or that. Have you ever compared your teacher's interpretation to an actual interview by an author? Then and only then can you make a statement of disagreement and have proof. Just read to enjoy.
How old was your daughter when you read this? A book we had to read in 7th grade used that word very freely.And the book also uses the N word.
My English teacher said he was reconsidering doing Animal Farm, and I had just preprepared my essay on Snowball’s namesake
How old was your daughter when you read this? A book we had to read in 7th grade used that word very freely.
Easy.I also hate how they teach how every book has some sort of message. Lol what? What’s the message in The Silence of The Lambs? Not to skin people? They just won’t let you enjoy a story and interpret the implications in your own way
If you didn’t want to read it you should’ve made your teacher an offer he couldn’t refuse.Sixth grade, the teacher read Where the Red Fern Grows to us and I sort of blotted it out. I mean, what I paid attention to was good, I just don't like to read/hear sad animal stories.
Besides, I had The Godfather waiting in my desk.
If you didn’t want to read it you should’ve made your teacher an offer he couldn’t refuse.