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Post by Tassatul on Nov 22, 2003 20:46:05 GMT -5
Wait. . .someone explain this to me. . . you guys got to write stories?!
My english teacher just happens to be evil, or possibly possesed. All we do is read crappy books and write essays. Of course, in NY we have mucho gay statewide standarized tests. Es muy estupido, no me gusta, a la mierda con ellos!
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Post by copyKatt on Nov 22, 2003 20:48:39 GMT -5
yeah, some of our english teacher are cool like that and our assignment are to write epics and fantasies and stuff. but some arent. and thats rare too. were usually just sitting writinf stupid compare and contrast essays  and ugh, standardize testing... pain that they are, blek |
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 22, 2003 21:03:41 GMT -5
Grrr.. Standize test are the worst. Many long hours of sitting and writing, or filling in circles (or squares) in which you could easy know the answer to the question but machine reads it wrong because you went out of the lines
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Post by Deimos on Nov 22, 2003 21:14:30 GMT -5
Essays...the bane of my existence...
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 22, 2003 21:19:50 GMT -5
English teachers don't like my essays, too many mistakes, and with a certain essays were you have to state your side on a subject, like to present the evidence before my opinion.
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Post by palla on Nov 23, 2003 13:30:28 GMT -5
yeah, some of our english teacher are cool like that and our assignment are to write epics and fantasies and stuff. but some arent. and thats rare too. were usually just sitting writinf stupid compare and contrast essays Don't I know it.  The senior teachers are handing out a bunch of college essay assignments.  While I do see the benefit of them, it's still a royal pain in the butt. |
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 23, 2003 14:53:05 GMT -5
Grrr. comparing essay. Oh and then you get the essay where they want it really long, and you have very little info, so you put a lot of nonsense.
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Post by copyKatt on Nov 23, 2003 17:43:42 GMT -5
yup, i do that with 9/10ths of my info essays . chock full o' crap. i usually do really good on them though. although mrs wight has this thing of giving me 87 on everything i hand in. always an 87. cant seem to do better or worse if i tried. |
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Post by Tassatul on Nov 23, 2003 17:50:45 GMT -5
The essays we write are all dumb. "Hey, see this poem and this paragraph? In some unique way, they're realated! No really, write an essay on it!"
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Post by copyKatt on Nov 23, 2003 18:47:45 GMT -5
 , yeah, sounds like summer reading . relate a book about climbing mount everest to coloumbus's voyage! ....errr.... okay... serious, we had to read 'left for dead' over the summer and write a two page essay comparing it to columbus's voyage... i had great fun with that one...
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 23, 2003 18:54:05 GMT -5
Oh, grrr... summer reading. Then the year before we had to do journal entries, but each entry had to a different. One Compar, then theme, symbolize, every type of thing you could image.
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Post by copyKatt on Nov 23, 2003 18:55:57 GMT -5
yup. that really stunk. i did mine on sharpes fortress and angela's ashes i think. good books, but the assignment made me twinge at reading them |
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 23, 2003 19:02:54 GMT -5
Most of the books on the list are really great, but the assighments always destorys the books. I usually like to reread books i like, but i can't stand the thought of rereading any of my summer reads.
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Post by copyKatt on Nov 23, 2003 19:05:26 GMT -5
agreed. i espically loved "one child" did i ever tell you guys that? great book right there. i rented it from the library and ended up buying so i could read it again . most of the summer reading books are good, but then again some are horrible, ugh, like the kidnapped prince |
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Post by hyper4pyropixie on Nov 23, 2003 19:11:46 GMT -5
I have not read either one of those. What didn't you like about kiddnapped prince?
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The senior teachers are handing out a bunch of college essay assignments. 
While I do see the benefit of them, it's still a royal pain in the butt.
, yeah, sounds like summer reading