<p>agh I hate TOK...lol...random comment..sorry there</p>
<p>I had something similar happen to me freshman year. I actually read the book, but in order to prepare for the test I did the sparknotes quiz and the teacher gave exactly that. This, however, was only the first part of the test - the next day was the essay.</p>
<p>My english teacher doesn't do that, but my friend's english teacher actually writes for Spark Notes so he supports the use. How sweet is that</p>
<p>My sophomore year English teacher told us that "Sparknotes is not cheating". In his class, it's more like a crutch. But, of course, in AP English, it is sort of cheating. My teacher's already given our class numerous speeches on plagiarism. For Beowulf, he gave out a copy of what Sparknotes said about the heroic code and asked us to fill in the blanks. We had to do the same thing for a reading quiz in sophomore year, when my English teacher then gave out chapter summaries from SparkNotes for Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>Apparently, though, some kid in an honors English class at our school was uncreative enough to try to plagiarize and copied whole paragraphs from SparkNotes into his essay.</p>
<p>Anyway, I often take SparkNotes quizzes just to refresh my mind. I also sometimes read the chapter summaries, but I don't scroll down to the analysis section because I like coming up with my own interpretations. That's what I love about AP English - the critical thinking.</p>
<p>As another update of what a joke my honors brit lit teacher is...</p>
<p>we had a test on schoolhouse rock:grammar rock! it was pointless and easy, simply iding parts of speech. i thought that was for 2nd graders?</p>
<p>we had to write an analysis of...you'll love this...christina aguilera "what a girl wants" lyrics because she says its related because knights wanted to know what women wanted. she said we were gonna do analysis and i was sort of happy until she passed out the lyrics to analyze.</p>
<p>next week we are watching the holy grail to learn about middle ages...this class is a joke.</p>
<p>not to mention our vocab words are like "theory" "nemesis" "cappucino" "caribou" etc...what kind of person doesn't know those words?</p>
<p>Wowsers! The one thing that would be different with your school and my school is that everybody would know that the test was from SparkNotes... lol. Cheat sheets are popular at where I am... :p</p>
<p>And wow to those vocab words you get, LogisticsWizard.... that's really interesting for a Honors class, lol. She seems like the kind of teacher that only does what she likes, not what the class needs.... funny yet a very disappointing situtation.</p>
<p>yes that is what she like. we RARELY get homework and we just take notes on LITERALLY random stuff that she thinks is interesting. half the stuff we do in her class is the same she does with her freshmen cp class because we didn't do it freshmen honors. but the other honors brit lit teacher that i could have had this semester is the opposite extreme and i really dont want my gpa to suffer like kids in her class are saying.</p>
<p>Ugh. Lucky. I wish my English class is that easy year-round. </p>
<p>But this whole week, we're watching the BBC production of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth. (:</p>
<p>I'm luckier. I don't have English this year.</p>