darkhyuuga
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D.gray man... enough said.
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Post by darkhyuuga on Jan 19, 2008 19:29:00 GMT -5
Just finished my 3rd reading (lol it is my favorite wooding book) and realised something. The realationship between rail and moa is the best team up since George and Lennie (Of Mice and Men) and it gets even better with Vago which makes it one of those "the hunchback of notre dame" kind of feel.
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Post by GhostEggplant on Jan 20, 2008 12:30:37 GMT -5
It is sort of like THoND. I never noticed that before... That makes the story even more awesome.
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Feb 5, 2008 23:57:23 GMT -5
Poor puppies........poor Lennie.........poor George. :-t
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Post by Medeia Senka on Mar 15, 2008 13:32:27 GMT -5
Of Mice and Men was so sad....
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darkhyuuga
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D.gray man... enough said.
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Post by darkhyuuga on Mar 22, 2008 11:23:31 GMT -5
lol agian it has been a while since i've last posted and within that period of time, I finished of Mice and Men =( i guess there is no tending the rabbits
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Post by zemira on Mar 25, 2008 13:16:15 GMT -5
Heh, I remember that book. It's been a few years, but it wasn't as bad as some of his other books. I liked it enough, lol. Totally random but in that class, we had to kinda act it out. I was Curly's wife...I hurt my head, lol. Falling to the ground onto solid tile can hurt.
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Apr 1, 2008 22:46:14 GMT -5
lol! I remember that.
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Post by shyviolet on Apr 2, 2008 2:20:12 GMT -5
We never had to act it out, but then we were in mixed sets for English Lit. so we had enough trouble just reading the books. I finished reading the whole thing in the time it took a succession of the slowest readers in our class to finish reading a single chapter aloud.
I never understood the reasoning there, the slow readers don't want to read, the fast readers don't want to hear the slow readers read; why do the teachers always pick the slow readers to read out loud?
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Post by lisajane on Apr 2, 2008 3:26:41 GMT -5
Helps slow readers learn to read better I suppose. That's why in the beginning of high school, our English classes got divided into actual English classes, and English classes for kids who were really lousy at English.
By ninth grade our teacher usually just read the first chapter and the rest of us read it by ourselves, no more reading in class. It does help when you get an English teacher who starts the novel with saying 'I really hate this novel, it's boring and I don't expect any of you to actually read it, so I'll give you the page numbers for essay answers'.
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Post by Maliris on Apr 2, 2008 4:26:55 GMT -5
I always loved reading aloud to the class. Probably as I love acting... But when I asked whether I could roll the Rs the teacher said no. Bummer.
We never read that book. In the last two years, we read Moon Palace, A Streetcar Named Desire and some English Short Stories. And of these three, Moon Palace was the one I somewhat enjoyed reading. Of course, working with a book in class kills your interest and love for the book eventually.
Still, I would have liked to read a Storm Thief or Poison in class. I think, these two books would work well for that. Or... Catchman. (<- joke) XD
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Post by shyviolet on Apr 2, 2008 5:36:52 GMT -5
I imagine that was the idea, but in mixed sets it didn't really work because all the slow readers knew there were fast readers listening, and the fast readers got tired of having to wait for the slow ones. It would have worked better if we'd been set by ability I think.
I think limited improvement in reading aloud was the price the school paid for better general improvement in essays and such.
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Post by lisajane on Apr 2, 2008 21:27:21 GMT -5
Across two years of English Lit we read Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, Great Expectations, William Blake poetry... there were probably more.
The only one I liked was Hamlet. I couldn't stand Pride and Prejudice or Great Expectations because they'd spend a whole page to explain what could be summed up in a simple sentence, and I just didn't get Blake.
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Post by shyviolet on Apr 3, 2008 1:46:10 GMT -5
I always wanted to study Hamlet, but we've done Macbeth (yr 8), Romeo and Juliet (yr 9), As You Like It (yr 12) and Measure for Measure (yr 13).
I like Jane Austen, but I've always been the sort of person who finds long pages of description easy to deal with. They can be quite funny if they sort of sum themselves up at the end.
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Post by zemira on Apr 3, 2008 11:28:26 GMT -5
The book I most enjoyed studying in school was Ender's Game, but that wasn't until I was in college. In high school, I remember reading Catcher in the Rye, and I absolutely luved it. Everyone else pretty much hated it, but I thought it was great. In class, we had an assignment to re-write the ending, just for fun. Well, I've been told I have a talent at writing in the original author's style, so I started writing a new ending, but made it as messed up as possible. The book has way too much symbolism, so I used a bunch of that to screw with the main character's head. My teacher couldn't stop laughing when he read my paper. ^_^
And, as for Shakespeare works, I've read a ton. Most of his history plays (I took a class on them in high school), R&J (of course), Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest...and probably more. I like some of his work, but R&J is overrated, I feel. I prefer reading them on my own time, though, because I just can't help getting annoyed at classmates who don't understand what he's saying. I know that many people have trouble with deciphering what he means, but to me, it's plain as day. I don't know why I understand it, but I do.
And I don't really care for a lot of description, either. I luve Jane Austen though. ^_^ But the worst book I remember reading in class was The Scarlet Letter. I enjoy the story and the plot, but the writing was just too much for me. I just couldn't read it. >_<
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Post by shyviolet on Apr 3, 2008 12:40:48 GMT -5
I understand Shakespeare easily too, bu I can see why other people don't. Some people's brains just aren't wired that way.
Romeo and Juliet has a huge plot hole; Juliet's going to be disowned if she doesn't marry Paris, right? Why not just refuse to marry Paris, get disowned, and then go and marry Romeo in Mantua?
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