That sucks about the essay! My English class this year is called Language and Composition and I feel like it ruins what I love about English - characters, plot, passion. It disregards all those things and focuses right on the structure. I feel like I'm missing the whole point of whatever passage we're analyzing.
I loved Language & Comp, but I think that was because I adored my teacher (and he liked me too, which is always good), and he liked to focus on the "language" part. We rarely talked about structure, but he did like to have us focus in on the specific words the writer used and analyze the connotations of that word, why the writer used it, and what they were trying to convey. We even got to do that with movies: we watched "Big Fish" in class and wrote reviews (and that has since become one of my favorite movies EVER, and when I mentioned that to the teacher, he just smiled and said, "I thought you'd like it," which, AWESOME).
It also helped that this was one of those teachers who every girl in the class is in love with. :P (He's married, damn it. And now has a baby. Which he apparently holds in one hand and waves around when he teaches (he's like 6'3" with monstrous hands, so he can do that). My sister says it's both hilarious and terrifying.)
My teacher is very sweet. But I hate the class! LOL. We're seniors now, and she had quite a few of us as ninth graders, so she's pretty relaxed with us.
I love finding people with the same birthday as me. I used to babysit for a kid who shared my birthday, as we discovered when I sat for him 3-4 days afterwards. :P
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That sucks about the essay! My English class this year is called Language and Composition and I feel like it ruins what I love about English - characters, plot, passion. It disregards all those things and focuses right on the structure. I feel like I'm missing the whole point of whatever passage we're analyzing.
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I loved Language & Comp, but I think that was because I adored my teacher (and he liked me too, which is always good), and he liked to focus on the "language" part. We rarely talked about structure, but he did like to have us focus in on the specific words the writer used and analyze the connotations of that word, why the writer used it, and what they were trying to convey. We even got to do that with movies: we watched "Big Fish" in class and wrote reviews (and that has since become one of my favorite movies EVER, and when I mentioned that to the teacher, he just smiled and said, "I thought you'd like it," which, AWESOME).
It also helped that this was one of those teachers who every girl in the class is in love with. :P (He's married, damn it. And now has a baby. Which he apparently holds in one hand and waves around when he teaches (he's like 6'3" with monstrous hands, so he can do that). My sister says it's both hilarious and terrifying.)
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I love finding people with the same birthday as me. I used to babysit for a kid who shared my birthday, as we discovered when I sat for him 3-4 days afterwards. :P
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