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9/12/2005 10:20:54 PM
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i hate english II
i goofed off sorta, now i have to read half of the novel "great expectation" by the end of this week. thats like 250 pages. i know its not a lot, but my head is hurting and i hate reading. not that im not good at it.
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Reading in general is good. I loved Les Miserables, To Kill A Mockingbird, 1984. I just think that there are just some so-called "classics" that are no longer relevant, at least not to high-school students. What is the point of having a teenager read Great Expectations? Yes, it mocks Victorian society, but in case you haven't noticed, Victorian society kinda died out a century or so ago. Without that, all you have is a stuffy and boring book about some crazy hermit and a criminal. The difficulty in having a kid read something like Dickens is not worth whatever application the books may have to real life.
