#high school english

[my-cursed-brain]

My english class had to read Lord of the Flies earlier in the semester and I was so excited to finally read it. Unfortunately, I was incredibly disappointed by it and I have no idea why. From what I knew beforehand, it seemed like I'd love it. My current theory on why I felt so let down by LotF is just because it was a school assignment.

1) My teacher gave us the paperback to follow along in, but also played the audiobook. Okay I listen to podcasts and audiobooks all the time, but having both at the same time destroyed my ability to follow along. I was reading much faster that the audio so I kept having to stop myself and go back to where I was supposed to be.

2) I wasn't able to properly form my own thoughts and opinions because of how my teacher constantly stopped to talk about the text. I know it's a high school English class, but I can't stand when teachers stop the book to discuss something. Just let me have time to actually think about what I'm reading.

I have more to say on this, but it's very late and I need to sleep. I'm hoping to reread LotF later in the year so I can have a proper chance to read the book and to give it a more fair chance.

#dahlia's rambling #lord of the flies #lotf #classic literature #high school english

[in-da-bathtub-rn-frfr]

Hello friend! Welcome to post TWO of

How not to fail English.

Today I’m going to teach you all how to tell the difference between a static and dynamic character!

A static character is one who DOES NOT go through character development, and has the same personality, morals, values, likes, dislikes etc. throughout the whole story. From beginning to end these guys are the same little guys.

A dynamic character is one who changes! It might not be a big change, but they still change nonetheless! They’re the ones going through character arches, changing their morals or their values because of something that happens to them in the story!

While it’s not too hard to learn the difference, it can be quite tricky spotting a static or dynamic character, so here’s an example!

The example I’m using is Edgar Allen Poe’s short story ‘The Cask of Amontillado’. I’m using this particular piece because it’s VERY hard to tell whether Montresor is a static or dynamic protagonist!

Step 1: Read the whole story. You might need to reread some bits, but it’s good to know everything before you start analyzing.

Step 2: read the first paragraph and the last paragraph. These are often where you can see definite changes in a character, but you’ll still have to keep an eye out! Here’s the first and last paragraph of The Cask of Amontillado:

“THE THOUSAND INJURIES of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged, this was a point definitely settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the Avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”

“No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in reply only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick on account of the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to make an end of my labor. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.

In pace requiescat!*”

*may he rest in peace

At first, Montresor seems completely static, as he did kill a man and leave him there in the catacombs seemingly without guilt. BUT my friends, if you read the first paragraph carefully you can see that Montresor is in fact, telling this story to someone other than the reader! Someone he knows quite well. “You, who so well know the nature of my soul..” he is confessing. And, in the last paragraph, “My heart grew sick on account of the dampness of the catacombs.” That sickness is not a sickness, but guilt! This means Montresor is a dynamic character, as now fifty years later he feels guilty about the death of Fourtunato.

This is how I was taught about static/dynamic characters and it remains my favorite way to learn! Hope this helped friends, and remember to drink water!

#litterature #study #english homework #english #high school english #high school #middle school #static #dynamic #static/dynamic #the cask of amontillado #edgar allen poe #english tutor #learning #learning help

[lifein238]

When I was told I was teaching Hamilton, I was nervous. Historically, my kids have not enjoyed learning about millennial faves. But dang, I've been impressed by how much they're engaging with this:

A frequent class cutter stays late to finish a paragraph about how much Hamilton's life reminds him of his own.

Students being appalled that he was shot by a political rival but also super into it as a historical reflection of Biggie and Tupac

A frequent sleeper stays awake and begins bopping to Helpless and tells me it's actually not half bad.

A student who's constantly talking over me to her friends instead sings along to Satisfied by the end of the song.

A table of girls Google Anthony Ramos to fawn over him. Across the room, boys fawn over Jasmine Cephas Jones

I think this unit might work out.

#high school teacher #teaching life #english class #high school teachers #teachblr #teacher #teacher life #teachers #teaching high school #tumblr teacher #tumblr teachers #english teacher #high school english #english teachers #teaching english #i love teaching #teaching chaos #teaching hamilton #hamilton musical #hamilton the musical

[darcyfangirlsfrequently]

My High School English teachers would hate me if they saw how long some of the sentences I write now are.

Just wrote a 63 word sentence that takes up 3 lines of my paragraph MISS I'M SORRY PLEASE FORGIVE ME

#high school english #english teacher #garvez #garvez fanfiction #luke alvez #penelope garcia #criminal minds #criminal minds fanfiction

[grorianday]

My experience reading Wuthering Heights for English class, part 2: My chaotic notes

#wuthering heights #linton #a sticky deer #why did I even write this #le bonk #spoiler alert wuthering heights #high school english

[lils-in-space]

That moment when your students come up to you the morning after your late/missing work deadline to explain why they couldn’t do their ten missing assignments the night before when you’ve been warning them about the deadline since two weeks prior.

The dilemma?

You don’t want to be a pushover who doesn’t keep deadlines. Disicipline, to a certain extent.

But, you also don’t want them to fail. Ultimately, the desire for them not to fail takes over and you’re left, again, being the “yes-man” English teacher who takes missing assignments till the day before school ends.

#teacher life #English teacher #high school English #high school teacher

[raycatz]

My brother needed help workshopping and making a title page for his Romeo and Juliet fanfiction school assignment. My siblings and I would like you to meet ViLe John, who skulked out of the pondscum.

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#romeo and juliet #high school english #for school #fanfic #minecraft #minecraft frog #ViLe John #wholesome #rays random ramblings

[rowan-is-reading]

Still thinking about how one of my hs english teachers would have the class debate which part of a poem’s double meaning was the correct one

Like bestie maybe the double meaning was the point? (No, no one ever reached this conclusion in the discussion.)

#writing #high school english #idk when I write a sentence with a double meaning i leave it in if i want the tension of two meanings #it’s like a musical chord but in writing

[lesbianbookworm73]

To His Coy Mistress 

BY ANDREW MARVELL

Had we but world enough and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side

Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse

Till the conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow;

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;

Two hundred to adore each breast,

But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least to every part,

And the last age should show your heart.

For, lady, you deserve this state,

Nor would I love at lower rate.

       But at my back I always hear

Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity.

Thy beauty shall no more be found;

Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound

My echoing song; then worms shall try

That long-preserved virginity,

And your quaint honour turn to dust,

And into ashes all my lust;

The grave’s a fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace.

       Now therefore, while the youthful hue

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing soul transpires

At every pore with instant fires,

Now let us sport us while we may,

And now, like amorous birds of prey,

Rather at once our time devour

Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Let us roll all our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one ball,

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Through the iron gates of life:

Thus, though we cannot make our sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

#english poetry #andrew marvell #17th century #to his coy mistress #read this in english literature class #high school english

[fahmeenaodetta]

High School English

There were problems associated with my English training in high school. I had a few good teachers. There were issues with the book selected for first year and the projects/assignments we received during English classes. We received no instruction for a period of time. In the first year, my English teacher was Ms. Luncheon. She was a good teacher. I recall that I found the book selected for the first year very boring. I fell asleep when reading the book (I think that was because I was adjusting to life at the school and also because I was very young). During second and third years, we did not have an English teacher. In fifth form, we were assigned Franklin Langhorne. He was good too. I recall that in the early years, the classrooms for teaching languages were next to each other - the classroom for Spanish, followed by the classroom for French, then the classroom for English. I enjoyed learning how to converse in Spanish and French, enjoyed learning songs in Spanish and French classes, and so on. English classes were not as interesting.

During the early years, English was not one of my favorite classes. I liked and looked forward to other classes, such as music. I did not enroll in English Literature (higher-level English) classes because I (my parents) did not select that option.

I recall that some classmates attended private lessons to prepare for the GCE & CXC examinations. I did not attend/have extra, external training (in any area/subject). I studied harder and longer than usual.

#fahmeenaodetta #high school English #presidentscollegeguyana

[snowglobesend]

my ap English teacher needs to make his questions/topics more precise or I'll go crazy... am I supposed to asses the chances of becoming politically active or talk about our social system in addition to the fact that climate change is slowly killing us all?!

#ap english #high school #high school english #english teacher #students #i did this instead of homework #assesment #pls help #this is a cry for help

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

#writeblr #i was doing a lot with high school students. over and over again #other teachers kept asking me what i was doing differently - why the kids listened to me. i am not particularly foreboding #and i have a pretty firm personal policy of never reacting in anger #godhelpme. #i was always kind of taken aback #because in general the kids were pretty easy. i explained i needed to keep everything “PG-13” because this was my workplace #and it was kind of their workplace #too. besides #i love swearing #and since i couldn't swear #neither could they - so if they were going to say “fuck” or become violent #they needed to choose a really specific time #because we only get “the one”.. sure enough - nobody wanted to waste the one very specific “fuck” utterance. kids listened. #i think just because - that rule makes sense. the kids understand that i don't want to be unfair to them #that censorship is stupid #but that i'm under these rules too so like let's ride it out together #also i look young and tbh between me and u nobody wants to make the nice english teacher cry #the way these kids defended me to their friends was really genuinely so heartwarming bc the Grouchy Frat Boy #would be like MISS RAQUEL DOESN'T DESERVE THAT KIND OF AN ATTITUDE BRO DON'T TALK BACK TO HER

[in-da-bathtub-rn-frfr]

Hey there friends! Time for post number THREE of

How to not fail English.

Today we’re going to learn about introducing a quote into your writing! I struggle with this a lot, so here’s what always helps me create smooth quotes in my paragraphs!

There are three easy ways to introduce a quote, and they are as follows:

- The Hard Stop: This is where you can use a comma to introduce a quote, but ONLY IF THERE IS A VERB BEFOREHAND. Examples of verbs you can use are things such as “states” “writes” or “explains”. (Ex. Bob states, “I think vanilla ice cream is the best flavor.”)

- The Natural flow: This is the easiest one, folks, and English teachers hate it because you just plop that quote down in there. No punctuation or anything. (Ex. An older and more cultured Bob says that “Perhaps vanilla ice cream is a bit boring”.)

- The Complete Sentence: this is where you use a colon to introduce your quote. (Ex. Bob’s opened mind made him realize he shouldn’t judge Ice cream flavors: “They’re all equally enjoyable, save pistachio.”

I Hope this will help you include that mandatory quote in your writing, and remember, drink water!

#litterature #study #english homework #english #school #high school english #high school #middle school #introducing a quote #quotes #writing #writing tips #how to not fail English #tutor #essay #essay writing #quote

[lifein238]

Today two of my students (who normally text and fall asleep) begged me to let them take their books home because they wanted to read more. One said with a huge smile, "This book is actually dope though. I like it."

#teaching high school #teaching life #teacher life #teachblr #high school teachers #Tumblr teachers #teachers #high school teacher #Tumblr teacher #teacher #teaching English #English teachers #English teacher #English class #high school English #first year teacher #teaching reading #teaching dystopians #student as reader #proud teacher #i love teaching

[loverboyinthekitchen]

do you guys remember that part in cyrano where he pretended he was from the moon

#high school english #english ap #miss my english teacher SO MUCH

[grorianday]

My experience reading wuthering heights part 3: more quotes

"...an epithet as harmless as a duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash."

"my landlord halloed me to stop."

"my human fixture and her satellites rushed to welcome me"

"what vain weather-cocks we are."

"Drag him down, and crush him to atoms!"

"Thou art the man!"

"Hahsomdiver..."

"oH, sHe iS nAuGhty!"

"Nelly, do you ever dream queer dreams?"

"....beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot...."

"he's at t' bottom of a bug-hoile..."

#out-of-context quotes #wuthering heights #high school english #queer dreams #hahsomdiver