Comments | petrina: macavity

petrina

macavity

Apr 21, 2006 01:40

How many people read Kurt Vonnegut or T.S. Eliot at the age of 11? Well, more than you'd think, since I recently discovered that two of our Concept module pieces were written by them: Harrison Bergeron and Macavity: The Mystery Cat (respectively). Did you non-RGPS GEPpers do that too? Also, I still can't find the author of Clarissa Montgomery; it ( Read more... )

stuff, what they said

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anonymous November 18 2006, 14:32:28 UTC

wow. i ask and i receive in abundance

your primary school syllabus seems a lot more fun than mine.....ah the joys of being a GEP kid

bel

anonymous November 18 2006, 14:33:01 UTC

yes, getting our noses rubbed in the dirt during recess by the "normal" people was fun too! though that didn't really happen but you can sure -imagine- it happening!

heh but anyway, i don't seem to remember poetry back in primary school (ACS)... we did have an awful lot of math enrichment though

weiming.

anonymous November 18 2006, 14:33:33 UTC

I only remember short stories in lower sec lit... sound of thunder and flowers of algernon are the 2 i remember best

in primary school wasn't it just a lot of PETS textbook (where you could hunt the hidden rabbit) and primary english?

Jac

petrina November 18 2006, 14:34:52 UTC

jac> we had this "concept" part of our english lessons which was essentially baby-lit classes. lit-lite! and every term the concept classes would have a different theme. and i think we'd spend time studying a book, too. just like lit, yah.

weiming>heh speak for yourself. i was always the bullying jock. terror of the school bus!
were you from ac pri? you traitor!
and how could you not remember poetry?
we had a term of poetry, fairy tales from different cultures, dinosaurs, greek myths, and short stories. i can't remember what else.

bel> primary school WAS really fun (that's why i remember so much of it).. but we paid it all back because our sec sch syllabus was awful :P

anonymous November 18 2006, 14:35:16 UTC

we really didn't have them concept classes in primary school! looks like RG had a different syllabus then. i only remember having all those extra science and math stuff.

and, sad innit, that the lasting memories of primary school are those of math classes and a crotchscratch-happy boy.

weiming.