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11-11-2012, 08:16 PM
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#3586 | | Member
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The weekend goes by so fast...
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11-11-2012, 11:44 PM
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#3587 | | Junior Member
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I just realized that I read 5 more cantos of The Divine Comedy than I should have for my English homework. 5 hours of my life gone...
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11-12-2012, 12:00 AM
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#3588 | | Junior Member
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^that sucks, but hey now you don't have to do it later
So what's everyone reading in English class right now? We're reading animal farm, and its decent. Not terrible but nothing spectacular
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11-12-2012, 12:02 AM
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#3589 | | Junior Member
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The thing is, though, I probably won't have to do it later... I think we're skipping some sections...
To answer your question, we've read Epic of Gilgamesh and Antigone, and we're now reading Dante. I think later this year, we'll read Macbeth, Frankenstein, and/or All Quiet on the Western Front.
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11-12-2012, 12:05 AM
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#3590 | | Member
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Picture me saying the following while banging my head against the wall:
Julius Caesar
OK, done banging my head. Actually, we "finished" it a couple weeks ago, as in, my teacher said we were done, we weren`t, but we moved onto something else, so now we`ll have to go back and read the rest before our final. Fun.
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11-12-2012, 12:06 AM
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#3591 | | Member
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And we`re going to read Night soon.
@elf4eva....All Quiet on the Western Front is very goo, IMO.
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11-12-2012, 12:08 AM
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#3592 | | Junior Member
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^I've heard a lot of good things about it. It's actually one of the few books I can't wait to read.
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11-12-2012, 01:12 AM
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#3593 | | Junior Member
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We read to kill a mockingbird before animal farm.
Cem you don't like Shakespeare? I loved romeo and Juliet last year.
We're either reading Macbeth or Julius Caesar later. The Maus 1 and 2.
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11-12-2012, 01:27 AM
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#3594 | | Member
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Jeez, no. Didn`t like Romeo and Juliet either. I really don`t like poetry THAT much, but I really don`t like Shakespeare. Not my thing. Just like how some people don`t liks To Kill A Mockingbird.
Read TKAM in 8th grade, great book.
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11-12-2012, 02:34 AM
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#3595 | | New Member
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We are reading Great Expectations and we have to classify most of the recurring characters as certain archetypal characters and find supporting evidence (for example, Mrs. Joe as the evil mother, Pip as the hero).
To tell the truth, I do not enjoy reading the book. Oh, I forgot, we are reading Lord of the Flies as well. I think we are going to read Night later; I heard it is a good book. Then Hamlet for poetry.
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11-12-2012, 03:03 AM
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#3596 | | Member
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So jealous of all you; I love most of the books you're reading, particularly All Quiet on the Western Front.
Between this year and last year, we have to read for our exams: An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations and Macbeth. The last is the only one I am enjoyng studying, although oMaM was a really good read.
In Classical Civilisations, we did Sophocles' Antigone and we're in the middle of Ovid's Metamorphoses, both of which are really good.
To make matters in English worse, my teacher keep going on about Macbeth and Pip as tragic heroes, which to some extent they are, but she keeps getting the Greek definitions wrong, and I can't correct her again...
Comign back to AQotWF, it is my favourite war novel, and between it and the sequel (the Road Back) I have cried for hours. Most of the translations aren't very good, but still a brilliant read. I wish we could have studied something interesting like it instead of Great Expectations, which is the second worst book in the world (to Jane Eyre) in my opinion.
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11-12-2012, 03:09 AM
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#3597 | | New Member
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I hate Great Expectations too. Though its theme is quite significant.
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11-12-2012, 11:03 AM
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@UKgirl: you cycle? That's really cool! I wish my school had a cycling team, I love the sport.
@shmulza: my school offers college chem, honors chem (which I'm taking), and dual enrollment chem
@CE527M: we read Night last year in English class, and it was a great book!
Right now we're almost finished with reading To Kill A Mockingbird, and I like the book a lot.
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11-12-2012, 12:49 PM
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#3599 | | Junior Member
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Oh, I read most of those books before! Except for Great Expectations and Romeo and Juliet. Hoping to read those on my own...
I've read:
Jane Eyre (twice; in middle school and freshman year)
To Kill A Mockingbird (liked it)
Animal Farm (HATED it)
Of Mice and Men (Creeped me out a little)
Julius Caesar (I liked it a lot)
Antigone (Hard to follow, but I didn't mind it that much)
The Odyssey (Sooo long, but I loved it once I got into it)
The Tempest (just a weird play overall)
We're going to read Macbeth, Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gulliver's Travels. Right now we're doing the Canterbury Tales. I'm reading the Middle English version for extra credit...:/
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11-12-2012, 01:07 PM
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#3600 | | Junior Member
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We're reading Macbeth. I have no idea what they're saying most of the time lol
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