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.

  • Don_Quixotel@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I often hear the “school ruined reading” or “school ruined this book” bit. I can’t commiserate. I never felt that way. I feel like I did have to read a few books I disliked, but I blamed the book, not the teacher. I loved finding new books in school. This was especially true when I got to AP English and had to read The Iliad, Jane Eyre, Grapes of Wrath, King Lear, A Thousand Acres, Invisible Man, etc.

    Now I’m a middle school ELA teacher. Sadly, we don’t teach novels anymore. We teach short stories, poems, informative articles, etc.

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      10 months ago

      You haven’t had strict time constraints on a book reading luckily. Dumbest thing my la teacher did.