<p>I hate this book so much! I hate British Lit. so much and my teacher loves to play favorites and then give participation grades (hopefully she doesn't really count these as much as I'm sure mine'd be low). Who else hates English class with a passion because I just despise it LOTS this year.</p>
<p>i also hate english this year. but not for your reasons, logistics. I actually enjoy the class, etc. but the homework is becoming too much (especially since senioritis is really kicking my arse)...</p>
<p>See we get homework rarely and its already 2 or 3 weeks into the course. We only did one-one paragraph essay on something pointless. All we do in class is read and analyze orally. It takes us like over 80 minutes to read one chapter and the Grendel chapters are short because she literally comments and starts discussion for every sentence. I just wanna punch her. This is honors, I want to just write during class and get graded. Maybe do some silent reading. Perhaps even a test. I'm worried that if this keeps up our grades are gonna be like 95% participation and I don't participate because I don't really care that much because in the discussions everyone just repeats the same things with slightly different wording and I learn nothing from it.</p>
<p>i like the class because i love my teacher but otherwise i would hate it because some books are just so........ ugh and class discussions are hard to follow (because i am deaf and i need to lipread people)</p>
<p>Oh wow, you're really 100% deaf? OR do you have limited hearing?</p>
<p>grendel is pretty bad. ugh. some much bad literature out there, so many evil teachers wanting to force helpless students to read it...</p>
<p>Am I the only person who LOVED Grendel? Our class has a really heavy workload, but the teacher does a good job of keeping in-class discussions interesting.</p>
<p>I didn't like Grendel either... by the time we read it, we had already done Beowulf in about 4 other versions. Ooh man grade 10 english.</p>
<p>and the whole "Hero" concept is taught, I swear, every single year. We get it. We know what heroes are.</p>
<p>logisticswizard i wear hearing aids that enable me to hear some sound- i still rely heavily on lipreading though. when i am not wearing my hearing aids (like in the pool/shower/when running--they cant get wet) i cant hear anything at all</p>
<p>I only had to read Beowulf (Seamus Heaney) once, this year, and it was average. I hate English mainly because I hate reading, which means all of world literature. (Actually, I hate school in general, which is why I just want to go to a reasonable college and graduate school and get the hell out as fast as possible.)
I agree that the hero concept is overtaught, as well as the literary terms for analysis. How many times do we need to be reminded of what irony and metaphors are?</p>
<p>Ok, ilovemath, at first I thought you were just using that as a figure of speech so to say like an exggeration that your hearing was poor. Sorry to ask if you were somehow offended.
On a side not, guess what I learned in 11th honors english today? VERBS!!! We also learned adjectives and nouns and capitalization recently. You know, the math gets harder and they teacher stuff. I swear they just run out of topics in english and start recycling because it is such nonsense.</p>