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Lots of typos for a teacher

they could be ESL or they made a secret based on their friend's story, etc. You should shut up - unless you never make typos.

People shouldn't take themselves so seriously.

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There's a single typo, and it doesn't matter.

Re: Splitting hairs

(Anonymous) - 2025-03-04 23:25 (UTC) - Expand

Teaching is a rough job. I'm surprised OP had enough of a brain cell left at the end of the day/week to make a secret.

It's amasing to have reddit reject here.

Newsflash! Teachers are human beings!

I moved constantly as a kid and I always missed the good books. I ended up reading the same ones over and over. But this one? I made myself read it after high school and I’ve always felt like I dodged a bullet in tenth grade moving right before my class started reading this.

I like the idea of it better than the execution.

Wait, they make you choose between The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, and Raisin in the Sun?

Yeah, we get to choose from this list of pre-approved longer texts.

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I don't remember it being overly dense? It was a pretty fast read.

I remember this as a very “blah” experience in high school. Not interesting to me, but also not painful, like a few others.

Disclaimer that I haven't read that book since high school, but based on what I do remember...your students are right and they should say it.

It would be different if the rich characters' problems were interesting in any way! But they're just not.

Came here to say this. I feel you, OP.

My American Lit teacher had such a boner for this book. He was personally devastated when we all turned in the worst essays of the year on it.

He also played Jim Croce songs all year on a turntable if there was any chance the lyrics somehow shared a theme with whatever we were reading. Looking back, we were a really nice class to indulge this sort of cringe.

Bless you, I would have loved doing a Raisin in the Sun in high school. I did get to dodge that bullet with Fitzgerald-- we had a sub who hated Gatsby, but did love the cars in the '70s film version, so he just put that on and let us read or write whatever we wanted while it played.

We did do The Crucible but that was AP English the following year.

Eh, Gatsby at least had more meaningful problems than Holden Caulfield.

When I had to read it in school I spent a few years wondering if my teacher had just failed to properly teach it because I got absolutely nothing out of it, could only tell you the barest skeleton of plot because it was so hard to care about anything that was happening. And then my sister had to read it and SHE didn't even realize Gatsby died at the end, and felt a little better about it. I wish I'd gotten to read, like, Of Mice and Men instead. Or Animal Farm, or Grapes of Wrath, or ANYTHING else.

That's not one I had to read and I'm thankful for that. I did read The Crucible and liked it. Of the others I read in school, I liked The Outsiders, Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Grapes of Wrath (I mean it was depressing AF, but I liked the way it was written), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rebecca, The Lottery (freaked me out, but it was done well), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Secret Garden, Little Women, and Frankenstein weren't part of the curriculum, but I read them outside of school and liked them.

The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Julius Caeser, King Lear, The House of Seven Gables, Brave New World, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, The Metamorphosis, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Canterbury Tales, and The Iliad were all okay.

I couldn't stand The Red Badge of Courage, Beowulf, or Candide (actually read that in college). It wasn't the play itself, but the way Romeo and Juliet was taught made me roll my eyes.

Not that anybody asked, I just thought I'd share.

Okay, assuming this is actually true, which it isn't:
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness."

Is it that your students have no awareness of the state of the USA, or is it that you are so poor an English teacher that you can't link this to their present day? 'even if you can ape the behaviours of the rich, they'll see through you & despise you for it' doesn't have any relevance for the teens today?

Your kids find 'the American dream is a hollow lie' impenetrable but have no problem with an extended allegory for Mccarthyism? How on earth are you teaching
these texts? It's also really odd to swap out a novel for a play - they're very different analytical skills.

also, if you think his writing is "tedious and overly dense" then it's no wonder you can't teach it with any success.

i cannot imagine reading this book as anything but "rich people are psychopaths"

Edited 2025-03-05 16:23 (UTC)

okay, sure, 'rich people are psychopaths' - I'm interested, what book do you wish you'd read at school? What's an interesting text for teenagers to analyse, that can't be flattened into a single sentence?

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