/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.767630]

Why did I have to take English classes when I already spoke English?

10 years later and the only thing I remember after being saddled with countless bullshit essays and projects is "I WANNA PET THE RABBITS, GEORGE"

[Anonymous No.767633]

That book was about the need for the upper class to enslave the working man like the retard he is

[Anonymous No.767639]

Every english class I had from elementary to highschool all we did was read. Why didn't they just call it literature class?

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.767659]

>>767630
Let me guess, public school?

[Anonymous No.767676]

>>767639

Really? All of my English classes, from first to eleventh grade, were 95% grammar, with a book hastily thrown in for a week or two.

Twelfth grade was sweet though. Nothing but literature and easy essays. I fucking loved it.

[Anonymous No.767679]

The reason for english classes is marxist brainwashing of the boys. We are taught feminine bullshit and things utterly uninteresting on purpose, to destroy our minds and masculinity.

[Anonymous No.767695]

I skipped all my English classes... which is why I have large amounts of chest hair and huge balls.

[Anonymous No.767698]

facepalm@thistopic

[Anonymous No.767752]

Because it's the closest thing to a fucking philosophy class, with out calling it philosophy. You need to learn how the language works because you think in it. You need to be able to comprehend your main language.

[Anonymous No.767780]

Do you read much Shakespear in American high schools? We read McBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's dream and Hamlet throughout secondary school. The only other book we read was also Of Mice and Men, can't seem to get away from that, although another English class did Death of a Salesman....

[Anonymous No.767793]

>>767780

Yeah, at my high school we read one Shakespear play a year. Ninth grade was Romeo and Juliet, tenth was Julius Caeser (I think), eleventh was MacBeth (also not sure), and twelfth was Hamlet. We would also read a butt load of those average high school novels.

[Anonymous No.767814]

Loves the shakespear plays.... for one class.

At which point I was done the whole thing, and had to listen to a month of bullshit.

Worst part is how feminist the classes are. 12th grade we read a book about 5 women. There were 7 male characters, 4 beat the women, one was a rapist, and 2 were corrupt cops. Biased much?

[Anonymous No.767924]

My English classes were always buttloads of awesome, but then again I took AP English through highschool.

We generally read two Shakespeare's per year; ninth grade was Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream, tenth grade was Much Ado About Nothing, eleventh grade was MacBeth and Othello, twelfth grade was Hamlet and King Lear.

My twelfth grade year was mostly existentialism and absurdism: Hamlet, The Stranger/Myth of Sisyphus, The Great Gatsby, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. They definitely weren't all purely existential works (Hamlet, Gatsby), but the themes were touched on.

tl;dr English class is much win if done correctly.

[Anonymous No.767931]

My senior AP English class was awesome. We read great shit that year: Heart of Darkness, Hamlet, 1984, and a lot of poetry.

I still love Heart of Darkness.

[Anonymous No.767938]

>>767626
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[HOWL !!aSmliUCu12g No.768292]

english was pretty good in my class, years 10 and 11 were decidedly average. year 12 is going hella good so far though, we've read wilfred owen poetry, the great gatsby, 1984, the road, the handmaids tale, the wasp factory and dracula

[Anonymous No.768304]

>>767931

>I still love Heart of Darkness.

inb4 shitstorm

[Anonymous No.768330]

my 12 grade AP class read A Tale of Two Cities, The Canterbury Tales, Gulliver's Travels, and Hamlet. 11th was alot of grammar busy-work. 10 was a lot of poetry like Robert Frost, Coleridge, Wordsworth and novels from the aesthetics movement. 9th I remember we read Anthem, Lord of the Flies, in-class performance of Oedipus Rex, and 1984. Yea, english class was typically cake and fun.

[Anonymous No.768350]

My English classes were awesome, but mostly because all the teachers were good - the curriculum was fucking lame

[Anonymous No.768352]

>>768330
Your 12th grade reading list is substantially the same as my 9th grade reading list, except we didn't do Gulliver's Travels and did a bunch of other books instead

[Anonymous No.768358]

The only book I ever finished reading in high school without perusing the sparknotes was Franny and Zooey. I almost got through The Scarlet Letter, too, but gave up around mid way through. Basically, I fucked myself over and am now desperately trying to make up for lost time by reading as many books as possible.

[Anonymous No.768359]

Senior year was the best: Oedipus Rex, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Awakening, The Wasteland, Song of Myself, The Sun Also Rises, Catcher in the Rye, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, and a metric ton of poetrym including Gray, Eliot, Rossetti, Browning, Hardy, Poe, Pound, Williams, and every Romantic poet.

[Anonymous No.768955]

we read harry potter in our english classes, it was pretty fun

[Anonymous No.768961]

FUCK Maya Angelou, is all I have to say.

[Anonymous No.768962]

>>768304
Does /lit/ hate Heart of Darkness?

[Anonymous No.768966]

And FUCK Laura Esquivel too.

[Anonymous No.768977]

>>768962
I only hate the book because I've been forced to read it in four separate classes, each with a defined purpose and lens (History, Philosophy, English, and Psychology). It's the go-to book for college professors.

[Anonymous No.768983]

>>767931

[Anonymous No.769136]

>>767780

Shot in the fucking dark....


Epping boys high school.