<p>I have the worst English teacher imaginable. I'm raging against the school for hiring her. She's not tough...that's the problem! She treats us like kindergarteners. We have bathroom tickets. I kid you not. Bathroom tickets. And at the end of the week, if we didn't use our bathroom ticket, we can turn it in for extra credit! And if we're extra good, and participate in class, she awards us more bathroom tickets for use in emergencies or for more extra credit.</p>
<p>She teaches by the book. I spent all last year trying to get away from the book. Four sentence introduction with obvious thesis at the end, must include the title, underlined, and state the author, if you don't that's an automatic deduction even if it's in the freaking prompt and everybody knows the subject. I am in big, big trouble because I used "the reader" in analyzing the authors purpose. Apparently, we're never supposed to use "the reader." I asked her, "Ms. X, what if you want to point out that Stowe meant for her female readers to imagine their own families being ripped apart?" Her response: "Never use 'the reader'."</p>
<p>Grr. I had to rewrite my intro for the first essay I wrote, because I got a 5. You know what a five means? To paraphrase the rubric, "simplistic, shallow understanding of the text, lacking insight and written immaturely." I bet she never even read the book (Portrait of a Lady) and thought I was summarizing by saying Osbourn represents the oppressive, selfish and materialistic puppateers of society. When we were analyzing a poem in class, she didn't even get that "apples" referred to children, that it was an extended metaphor--I watched the look of comprehension dawn on her face when I suggested it.</p>
<p>There now, it's out. Sorry to put such a long first post. We can have a rant thread now. Anybody else have a horrid teacher this year?</p>
<p>My sophomore english teacher was exactly like that. She's actually my advisory teacher for the past six years.
Supposedly, now our school has a bathroom ticket policy. >.< </p>
<p>This year, the teachers are pretty decent, apart from said teacher.</p>
<p>It's better that way, then to have the exact opposite. English anyways is usually a unnecessary subject after middle school for some people because you can't get better in it.</p>
<p>You can't get better in it, foxdie? Nothing could be further from the truth! English is one of the few subjects that you're ALWAYS getting better at. Maybe if your teacher sucks, you won't improve a ton or see any improvement over the course of a semester, but your writing constantly improves as long as you keep doing it. That's why (in my county, anyway) English is the only class that must be taken all four years.</p>
<p>I agree with sammgc68. I've improved immensely over the past year alone. I'm just bummed that I'll have to go backwards now and cater to the restrictive format again.</p>
<p>listen to the above poster. Sadly, it's true a lot of the time and you don't find out until it's too late. Because they don't know much of anything, they don't know what to look for.</p>
<p>hahaha exchange of bathroom tickets for extra credit!!</p>
<p>English teachers shouldn't teach you by the book. They are supposed to analyse everything and teach you extra information and such.
My english teacher is the wayyy opposite of yours. We were studying Of Mice and Men and she gave us these information about the Salinas River in California (drew us the map of usa) , and Soledad (meaning 'lonely' in spanish lol) and taught us about the Great depression in the 1930s (where the story was set.. but the book said nothing of the great depression and stuff).
She gave us all these extra info and my folder is stuffed with little bits of paper of stuffs that we don't need.</p>
<p>But I guess that's a bit better than your situation..?
What you have to do is to independently study your english things. Are your things marked externally or by that teacher? If by that teacher, you are stuffed. But goodluck anyway</p>
<p>Well i think that u sort of have to live with it. Because in college u will get worse professors who basically do not know how to teach. They will be hired based on their research. Then in college what r u going to do? U can complain but it's not going to help u in any way. I think that u r learning the different types of teachers which u need to know and adopt to in college. I say that u just face her and try to work it out because the chances of u liking someone statistically will dramatically increase as u get to know them in person. </p>
<p>BTW NoFX congrats on ur 1000th post. You r FINALLY a senior member. Sort of lame to congratulate u on ur 1000th post but u know us. ;)</p>
<p>We learned about the Great Depression when we read Of Mice and Men, too. You need to understand the context of a novel to understand most things.</p>
<p>My AS teacher was complete crap. He didn't teach and expected us to memorize arbitrary details from the book. I ended up having a numerical B average for the year, but I totally sucked up to him and got the A in the end.</p>
<p>I've been on this username since July. I made this new one just so that I could have a high number of posts per day - I've actually been keeping up with this site for over a year now. And my personal goal was to be a senior member, so I would stay up and post 75 times or so each night until I go to 1000.</p>
<p>Bathroom tickets? We have a place in our agenda for that, and one may only go at the teacher's disccretion (some don't allow it)...And extra credit!? My school did away with that...:(</p>