Mega Thread Things that Shit me the fourteenth part

[gaskin]

This is the stuff I like- either as a student myself in English or Lit, or as an Aide in class:

- Frankenstein, Much Ado About Nothing (the only Shakes i can really stand), an anthology i actually liked called "Book of the beach". Brilliant Lies, Gattaca. The Boy in the Striped PJs, 10 Things I hate about you (related to Shrew). And Australian poetry. Disclosure was ok. Greek plays

Stuff I disliked:

- 1984 (just didnt get it), I like the themes and the storylines of Shakes, but analysing and having to struggle through, every, single, word, is just frustrating. Did Romeo and Juliet, Shrew and MacBeth. Jane Eyre. Sons and Lovers. DH Lawrence was a ******* weirdo. Maus. I do not like graphic novels.

Never read: Jane Austen. Would know i'd hate those type of books anyway.

The Boy in the Stripped PJ's is great. I also forgot about Brave New World. I haven't read it in years but I remember liking it. I do happen to enjoy Dystopian Sci-fi. I never read Maus. It was one of the texts I could have chosen in one of my units at Uni but I opted for V for Vendetta IIRC.

 

[Shell]

The Boy in the Stripped PJ's is great. I also forgot about Brave New World. I haven't read it in years but I remember liking it. I do happen to enjoy Dystopian Sci-fi. I never read Maus. It was one of the texts I could have chosen in one of my units at Uni but I opted for V for Vendetta IIRC.

Maus is an unbelievable and tragic story, its a good read. But I just.. I didnt like the graphic element, just not for me.

 

[MatthewB]

You branded your tyre ???

Also, ouch, expensive !

yea not impressed, and less than a year old

 

[Kram]

One thing I never understood in an English class I had was consistently scoring about 7/10 in essays with fairly minimal corrections or comments from the teacher. Yet my mate that sat next to me would always get just a little less at say 6-6.5/10 and his would be covered in red ink!

(Waits for a smart arse to correct any errors I made in this post)

 

[Shell]

I never understood why i went from straight As in Year 11 English to straight Bs in Year 12.

 

[gaskin]

One thing I never understood in an English class I had was consistently scoring about 7/10 in essays with fairly minimal corrections or comments from the teacher. Yet my mate that sat next to me would always get just a little less at say 6-6.5/10 and his would be covered in red ink!

(Waits for a smart arse to correct any errors I made in this post)

Don't forget, teachers have a limited amount of time and essays are time-consuming to mark. They are really only going to give detailed comments and corrections to those who need them. Your essays were probably fine for the most part so needed minimal comments.

 

[Shell]

Yeah you're nuts to be an English teacher

Maths all the way- can even get other ppl to correct tests and exams. Cept maybe long answer ones.

 

[PT Bar None]

I reckon no matter the book, studying it at high school makes it shit. Some of them are, for sure (Henrik Ibsen, I'm looking at you!).

Late in High School I remember reading Huck Finn, Death of A Salesman, Black Boy, My Place, To Kill a Mockingbird. We didn't do 1984, but other classes did. And I hated them all. But most of them are pretty critically acclaimed tomes. It's just High School ****s them as books.

I was always a recreational reader, but High School killed that by about year 9 by making reading books not fun. Thankfully I started up again after I finished. Living in barracks where you weren't allowed personal entertainment possessions probably helped that. Stephen King was where I started again, of all authors.

Anyway some years after school - I must've been back at my parents on leave - I picked up and reread Black Boy and My Place. And they were pretty great stories. When you actually read the story, rather than **** it - High School style.

I admire teachers. The good ones that is. The military taught me lesson planning, structure, instructional style, etc. (You did the old INSTTECH and TRNGDSGN courses, which I have, and that was 6/8ths of an old school Dip Ed) and every now and then I break out those skills in the corporate world - usually get a pretty good reaction because it's unexpected.

 

[Kram]

Don't forget, teachers have a limited amount of time and essays are time-consuming to mark. They are really only going to give detailed comments and corrections to those who need them. Your essays were probably fine for the most part so needed minimal comments.

My point was if there were such limited corrections and comments on mine and his were covered in shit pointing out stuff wrong with it consistently, why was mine always only worth only a slightly higher score?

I have a very concise writing style which maybe made it hard to score higher or something? Because of that one thing she did do was let me sometimes put stuff in below the minimum word requiremet if she had a quick look at it beforehand. I did like her as a teacher overall.

 

[Kram]

Yeah you're nuts to be an English teacher

Maths all the way- can even get other ppl to correct tests and exams. Cept maybe long answer ones.

I never minded maths class that much but doing it all day long ever day over and over again??? **** that.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

One thing I never understood in an English class I had was consistently scoring about 7/10 in essays with fairly minimal corrections or comments from the teacher. Yet my mate that sat next to me would always get just a little less at say 6-6.5/10 and his would be covered in red ink!

(Waits for a smart arse to correct any errors I made in this post)

English is possibly the only subject in high school that no one (that I knew anyway) liked at all yet we all had to do it all the way through to year 12

 

[Shell]

I never minded maths class that much but doing it all day long ever day over and over again??? **** that.

I like maths.love it even depending on the topic

 

[Off The Couch]

I’m a maths dunce

Much better than I was at school but I hate it.

English was my favourite subject

 

[gaskin]

I reckon no matter the book, studying it at high school makes it sh*t. Some of them are, for sure (Henrik Ibsen, I'm looking at you!).

Late in High School I remember reading Huck Finn, Death of A Salesman, Black Boy, My Place, To Kill a Mockingbird. We didn't do 1984, but other classes did. And I hated them all. But most of them are pretty critically acclaimed tomes. It's just High School fu**s them as books.

I would agree with this. That is why I think it is important that people read for enjoyment outside of school.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

I’m a maths dunce

Much better than I was at school but I hate it.

English was my favourite subject

I have become more logically brained in the last two years where as when i was in school i was more in to writing etc and shit at maths. Reckon if i did HS maths now i would ace it, where as I used to struggle.

 

[gaskin]

Maths sucks. On my year 12 Maths TEE exam (our Uni entrance course in years 11 and 12 (now called ATAR)), I did so bad that my mark actually got scaled up whereas everyone else got scaled down 10-15 marks. Mind you, I only answered about a 3rd of the questions and must have got just about full marks for them so there is that.

Basic maths such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division is fine. Basic algebra is fine. Anything more than that and you lose me.

 

[Kram]

The thought the lower TEE maths class (Discrete?) was pretty easy even for a simple bloke like me, a couple electrical trades units actually almost had harder calculations.

 

[sosos]

One of the guys I've gone away with for New Year is a moron. He's doing my head in.

No escape kind of situation?

 

[HahnPremium]

The books they made us read at High School were all ****in sh*t. Cloudstreet probably the worst.

Winton is hot garbage.
Ponytail wearing supposed artiste.
Dirt music. He got that right. He is dirt. And his lit is uninspired pedestrian popcorn.

 

[Perth gal]

I reckon no matter the book, studying it at high school makes it sh*t. Some of them are, for sure (Henrik Ibsen, I'm looking at you!).

Late in High School I remember reading Huck Finn, Death of A Salesman, Black Boy, My Place, To Kill a Mockingbird. We didn't do 1984, but other classes did. And I hated them all. But most of them are pretty critically acclaimed tomes. It's just High School fu**s them as books.

I was always a recreational reader, but High School killed that by about year 9 by making reading books not fun. Thankfully I started up again after I finished. Living in barracks where you weren't allowed personal entertainment possessions probably helped that. Stephen King was where I started again, of all authors.

Anyway some years after school - I must've been back at my parents on leave - I picked up and reread Black Boy and My Place. And they were pretty great stories. When you actually read the story, rather than fu** it - High School style.

I admire teachers. The good ones that is. The military taught me lesson planning, structure, instructional style, etc. (You did the old INSTTECH and TRNGDSGN courses, which I have, and that was 6/8ths of an old school Dip Ed) and every now and then I break out those skills in the corporate world - usually get a pretty good reaction because it's unexpected.

Loved My Place.

 

[raskolnikov]

No escape kind of situation?

Yep.

 

[Perth gal]

What’s the annoying person doing?

 

[Kram]

What’s the annoying person doing?

I think all us blokes can imagine the type.

 

[Over The Post]

Still pissed off that school changed the books for Y12 and the previous year was the last one to do A Clockwork Orange. Instead we did some utterly dire contemporary shite penned by an unwashed hairy pseudo-intellectual. So forgettable I can't even remember the author and what it was about. The late 70s has a lot to answer for.

A bright spot was having done The Tempest in class, we were invited to a university production to see the backstage process and have front row seats for the performance. The twenty minute ride to town in a classmate's Triumph 2000, hooning around, swigging bottles of Muscato, was closer to two hours of total hilarity. I still remember bits of it through a pissed haze, loudly saying the lines with the cast, roaring with laughter when one of the players fell over, and so on. Also remember the teacher being somewhat unamused, but he was a pillock and could GAGF.

 

[raskolnikov]

What’s the annoying person doing?

Doesn't shut up and everything anyone has ever done he's done it bigger and better.