Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.

Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.

It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.

I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.

  • waterdragon-95@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Because we don’t teach anything that’s around classic literature. It’s a bit much to expect students to fully grasp or care what’s happening in such an old text when they’ve never been taught the actual background she’s writing about.

    • FurBabyAuntie@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve read a few of the classics–Sherlock Holmes, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys…I read Call Of The Wild and The Jungle Book (by choice) in grade school because we had them at home and my attitude then was “Oh, here book…read book”, but I’ve never considered reading them again. Maybe I was looking for the words to I Wanna Be Like You and The Bare Necessities…