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ebookporn · 1 day
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For pastry and Hemingway fans...
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What majoring in English was like.
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fabtastic123 · 20 days
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Confession time: the only reason English teachers teach The Great Gatsby is so we can continue to fuel the Nick/Gatsby ao3 tag. It is our lifeblood.
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dagwolf · 3 months
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It's that time of the year where I'm grading many essays. My English 4 students are wrapping up their novels and good ole theme essays and my Eng 101 students' semester is at an end, so I'm evaluating arguments and preparing them for Eng 102.
Over the decades, I've gotten better at this. I'm a quick grader, but it takes a toll. This year I've been harping on them learning to better incorporate quotes into their work. Easier said than done. The student writer doesn't really learn until they do. They remember the rhetoric, structures, and other teachings, if they're paying attention, but until they try to practice what they've learned, they don't pick up good writing habits. I get half my students dumping quotes into essays as if quotes speak for themselves.
I get a lot of teachers worrying over student stamina and attentiveness these days. But I feel it's about the same it's always been with writing students. A few in each class shine and illustrate genuine learning and care. A good bunch reach for success but are mired in bad habits, sometimes (maybe often) taught to them by other teachers. And some just aren't writers and don't give an effort enough to flex those writing muscles. I'm not seeing that generational difference that some see.
What I do see is that we are asked as teachers and students to care more about grades than we are about discourse about the work we do and the important narratives about that work that would likely develop otherwise. I had a student today more interested in the type of A she was going to receive than interested in why she was assessed lower than she expected. (She isn't incorporating quotes well, insisting the reader make connections, and so not really mastering control of her prose.) She felt let down by her grade. I was like, hey, let's talk about your work which is over all wonderful but let's focus on where you have room to grow. The grading at this point was interfering with the opportunity to learn. Her sense of achievement not in the possibilities present in the discourse but mired in the accumulation of dead points.
And so it is with most students in high school. Even the poor student who struggles to pass has learned to focus on enough points to pass rather than to puzzle their way to better study habits in conversation with their teacher. I find it horrifying that we blame students for their perspective which I feel is daily taught to them, reinforced until they are habituated accountants.
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nymphpens · 4 months
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Gays to their English teachers:
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faeryfrogs · 6 months
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all high school english teachers fall on a scale of will schuester to hozier
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fluencylevelfrench · 2 years
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All of the English teachers around the world right now:
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Let's do some lesson planning for tomorrow. We'll be so up to date. The kids will love it.
(inspired by @antonomase's post)
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bunnybeingbetter · 6 months
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HE LIKED IT!!!!
*excited squeaking*
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applepinsss · 2 days
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don't think I've ever met anyone who felt neutral about their English teacher, it's either they're the sweetest person ever and you love them or you pray every morning that they get into a head-on collision with a fucking 18-wheeler on their way to school
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brediest-littleguy · 6 months
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I fuckinf love my English teacher, shout out to her
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3 questions to ask the english teachers you've had throughout the years:
Was there a student that lit up at positive feedback from you more than anyone else in the class and took any opportunity to talk with you during class time rather than talk with their peers?
Was that student queer?
Was that student autistic?
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ebookporn · 6 months
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Hello! Recently, a lot of people have asked me what I want to be when I get older (as most high school kids and adults do.) Unfortunately, whenever I respond by telling them that I want to teach, the usual response is something along the lines of "You don't actually want to do that. It's a terrible job with terrible pay!" It gets a lot worse when I tell them that I'd like to teach either English or Psychology at a high-school level. So, is it really such a bad job? Also, so that I can prove them wrong, what is the best (or a good) education/career path into teaching at a high school level? Thank you so much!
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theyuniversity · 11 months
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animentality · 1 year
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b4nd1t-gh0ul · 4 months
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Why the fuck can I relate to this…
@orel-missing
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