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.
As a literature teacher, this. Lots of kids hates maths, but no one is going out of their way to tell the maths teacher to make it more fun… Meanwhile, everyone has an opinion on something I spent years of my degree studying - what’s the best way to teach kids to analyze and understand literature?
Parents, other teachers and principals… Every single one has an opinion.
The way things are going though, we’ll be reading picture books with ninth graders in a decade.
Sorry but the maths example is wrong. The subject is irelevant, it is allways about the teacher. I have more fond memories about subjects I did’t like that much that had a good teacher vs a subject that in itself would interest me, but taught by a bad teacher (boring, unfair or psychopatic). Some kids don’t like any subject, but if the whole class hates maths then the problem isn’t with the kids…