<p>Is it just me, or are most English classes wastes of time??? Most of the time I'm just sitting there bored out of my mind. I don't mind reading and writing essays; it's sitting for 90 minutes listening to boring lectures that turns me off to English.</p>
<p>Who needs words when I have binary code?
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<p>I thought English class was all about discussion.</p>
<p>Totally agree. Why do you need to do citations, write essays about themes, and know stupid random literary terms unless you’re going to be an English teacher?</p>
<p>That is precisely the reason why I have not taken and will not take any AP English classes.</p>
<p>Isn’t English supposed to be fun? I enjoy writing essays</p>
<p>you people suck. ENGLISH FTW</p>
<p>but lol if you have to listen to lectures. that sucks. we have oval tables for english class instead of desks. it’s better for discussion :)</p>
<p>Ignorance is bliss.</p>
<p>I love English. I’m sorry that you feel that way. If books bore you, you are simply not reading the correct books.</p>
<p>English develops your philosophical and analytical skills. It helps build intellectial maturity.</p>
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<p>This certainly does not describe my high-school-English experience.</p>
<p>Math develops your logistic skills.
Spanish develops your linguistic skills.</p>
<p>I’m sure almost every good English reader is good at History. As opposed to every good Mathematician is good at Physics. But to a degree, Math is a very complex and wide thing. So each part of math might require different skills to succeed in. Such as proofs, logic, ect…</p>
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<p>That’s unfortunate :(. Reading and discussing classic and contemporary literature broadened my mind and helped sharpen my rhetoric. The subjectivity of analyzing literature allowed me to develop my own perspectives and ideas, making me more intellectually independent.</p>
<p>I concur with Mr. Jones, and I must also add that by reading works of literature, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; The Sound and the Fury; Paradise Lost; the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and William Blake; and the 1/3 of In Search of Lost Time that I’ve read in particular, I have not only gained a better understanding of the way in which the world around me functions, but, perhaps of greater value, I’ve gained a more authentic understanding of myself and what I want out of life. Milton and Joyce showed me the beauty of learning and the reason I strove to do well in school in the first place; Faulkner, Milton, Williams, and Blake showed me that I should be independent and should not be imprisoned by perceived social norms or expectations; Pound taught me that I did not have to focus my life on one thing because that is what is, perhaps, expected; and Proust taught me to listen to the inner workings of my soul and to listen to the world around me and the voices of the past. This is a mere fraction of the many ways in which literature has made my life not successful perhaps, but meaningful.</p>
<p>English is a pretty easy A class because all we do are vocabulary quizzes…</p>
<p>But I stink at novel reading…just not my forte. </p>
<p>But this year English is pretty interesting because the teacher rocks.</p>
<p>The English have invaded and oppressed across the world!</p>
<p>Oh wait, I misunderstood the thread title…</p>
<p>^ ahahahahhaa</p>
<p>I hated the call of the wild…</p>
<p>I love that book. Such fun reading in 5th grade.</p>
<p>White Fang… best book I read when I was like 12.</p>
<p>OP, can you make a “Literature Hate Club”? I would join!</p>
<p>Everyday I dread going to my last period (AP Lit); what a terrible way to end my day. I begin by going to the boring but useful AP Stats, followed by humorous and silly French, then by awesome Calculus, Physics, and Microeconomics, but only to get ruined by the useless evil that is AP Lit.</p>
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<p>I sorta had a hard time in AP World History. Granted, that was probably because I’m not interested in history taught that extensively very much.</p>
<p>I think you can have better readers or better writers. People who enjoy English either enjoy it because they love to read and learn how to evaluate literature or they love to write and evaluate language. Or both c=</p>