Conventional English Classes
September 6th 2008 11:22
As I'm waiting for a response from my editor, I'm going to be here today and possibly tomorrow as well. And in the spirit of the start of school, my first post is going to be about the evils of grade nine English.
As some of you may remember, I disappeared for quite a while last year from Orble, as I was stressed out to an extreme level; well, I disappeared from school, too, and as a result I'm retaking all of my grade nine classes (with minor changes) this year. Which means I'm taking English.
I may be crazy-in fact, I'm pretty sure I am-but English class bores me almost to tears. I have had incredible experiences in English classes. I have had great teachers, and in fact if not for English class I would never have gotten into poetry. Would you believe that I started reading 'late'? But that's another matter altogether. Now I'm at university level English.
Which makes my life incredibly dull. I am in the hardest level of English possible, and I'm still bored out of my mind. We're doing some poetry stuff, and it's good, it isn't where they make you write haikus or anything horrible like that. But we're also doing essays. And essays bore the hell out of me.
Especially when the teacher expects us to dissect one, and then write our own, and plan it, rough draft it, and then hand in a polished final draft. I have a hard time working in drafts. Every single post on this blog is my first draft. In grade eight, I was 'good at editing and revising', and I never had time for a rough draft, because I was a last-minute type of girl.
I guess it's just that my brain works in severely different ways from the norm they're supposed to teach for. I just wish there was some alternative English program that I could take; this class is so far exceedingly dull, and it promises to be so for the rest of the semester. Especially because I think I might have to read Romeo and Juliet. I hate Romeo and Juliet. I really do.
That said, I have to take it, and in the upcoming years English will hopefully become less dull and I'll actually enjoy myself. Not necessarily find it challenging, but enjoyable. I guess that's a part of being a writer-English class can get boring.
How does any of this actually pertain to writing? It does, in a way. Because I love to write, and so I have a passion for some of the work we do in class; but I don't love essays, and thus class can be dull. Personally, I'd much rather take a specific writing-focused class. In fact, I would love to take a ten day writing class.
Like Alpha, which is in the states. But that isn't an option for me at this point in time; so I will soldier through the boredom and hope for better days.
As some of you may remember, I disappeared for quite a while last year from Orble, as I was stressed out to an extreme level; well, I disappeared from school, too, and as a result I'm retaking all of my grade nine classes (with minor changes) this year. Which means I'm taking English.
I may be crazy-in fact, I'm pretty sure I am-but English class bores me almost to tears. I have had incredible experiences in English classes. I have had great teachers, and in fact if not for English class I would never have gotten into poetry. Would you believe that I started reading 'late'? But that's another matter altogether. Now I'm at university level English.
Which makes my life incredibly dull. I am in the hardest level of English possible, and I'm still bored out of my mind. We're doing some poetry stuff, and it's good, it isn't where they make you write haikus or anything horrible like that. But we're also doing essays. And essays bore the hell out of me.
Especially when the teacher expects us to dissect one, and then write our own, and plan it, rough draft it, and then hand in a polished final draft. I have a hard time working in drafts. Every single post on this blog is my first draft. In grade eight, I was 'good at editing and revising', and I never had time for a rough draft, because I was a last-minute type of girl.
I guess it's just that my brain works in severely different ways from the norm they're supposed to teach for. I just wish there was some alternative English program that I could take; this class is so far exceedingly dull, and it promises to be so for the rest of the semester. Especially because I think I might have to read Romeo and Juliet. I hate Romeo and Juliet. I really do.
That said, I have to take it, and in the upcoming years English will hopefully become less dull and I'll actually enjoy myself. Not necessarily find it challenging, but enjoyable. I guess that's a part of being a writer-English class can get boring.
How does any of this actually pertain to writing? It does, in a way. Because I love to write, and so I have a passion for some of the work we do in class; but I don't love essays, and thus class can be dull. Personally, I'd much rather take a specific writing-focused class. In fact, I would love to take a ten day writing class.
Like Alpha, which is in the states. But that isn't an option for me at this point in time; so I will soldier through the boredom and hope for better days.
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