Matt. wrote:Random Name wrote:Shanae wrote:In English, we had to make a list of fifty things to do before we turned fifty.
This makes me sad!!! Whats wrong with reading books?!?!
Honestly, at the high school level, I'm beginning to think they should be cutting down the number of books and pounding grammar into their adolescent minds until "comma splice" has the power to haunt.
This year in English, we basically do three novel studies (
The Outsiders,
Julius Caesar, and
The Giver), and the rest of our units are done on short stories and poems. It's basically read, write notes, answer questions, and occasionally do vocabulary works.
Many of my classmates refuse to use quotation marks and paragraphs.
Since I haven't been around in a while, here's a quick Shanae update: I performed the play I wrote at a competitive level. We didn't achieve first or second place, understandably, so I don't know where we ranked since those are the only two places named, but I won an acting merit. Our play opens with a ten minute monologue delivered by yours truly. I swear, every second line I delivered, I had to pause to wait for the audience to stop laughing. I was getting applause during the monolgue. It was incredible.
How's CM-land?
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