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#51 User is offline   zurdo 

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Posted 22 April 2007 - 11:12 PM

Around here, Middle School is generally 6-8, except for my old school, where it's 7-8.

In Freshman Honors English, we're reading -- nay, acting -- Romeo and Juliet with a teacher who loves three-hundred-year-old British poets and hates Kurt Vonnegut. Oh well. My dad teaches next year's class.
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Posted 23 April 2007 - 01:00 AM

I loved Shakespeare in high school. Especially when we acted it out. Except kids seemed to think senior year, that it was STILL funny to dress up like "thugs" and "hoes" and turn Shakespeare into "modern day". Ugh.. made me want to leave every time.

Yo Romeo.. what's up dog? Hath you smacked yo bitch up yet man?

Nay, dog...

I'll stop..
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Posted 23 April 2007 - 05:52 AM

View PostVeritus Dartarion, on Apr 21 2007, 12:47 PM, said:

I just finished my 1st Hemingway- For Whom the Bell Tolls. I think I'm going to have to read everything else the man wrote now.

i'm a huge Hemingway fan, and i love all his work, but i will always feel that one rises above all others. you've got to read The Sun Also Rises, i've read it 6 times, and i still take it on all my travels to get another read out of it.