#literature class

[miuamor]

chaotic academia is convincing ur literature prof to let you read the song of achilles in class because it’s a retelling of the iliad focussing on the two heroes patroclos and achilles

#nan.txt #nan's school archives #nan shitposts #chaotic academia #<3 #the song of achilles #tsoa madeline miller #tsoa #patrochilles #literature class

[cathy-plus-e]

"come to daddy"

im dying 😂😂

anywy..

what does it mean when someone calls you 'plinko' on tumblr? what does 'plinko mori' mean? 👀

#nopressure asks 🍵

Plinko has two meanings: Describing a character or talking about horse plinko. For example, saying [x character] is my plinko means → Humiliating and derogatory term like eeby deeby, a character plinko is a character that you hate, want to see it suffer, that you like a little but find it extremely disgusting... I don't know if it would be the same for describing a person, but to indicate or compare emotions is a different situation

Plinko Mori is actually my pseudonym in my Literature classes and in almost everything I write, I actually had the idea here and posted it time ago

#adopted parents council #plinko mori #adopted parents council asks #horse plinko #plinko horse #plinko meme #tumblr culture #literature class

[adastra-sf]

Edgar Rice Burroughs to a young Forrest J Ackerman

In 1931, 14-year-old soon-to-be author, editor, and super-fan Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan, John Carter / Princess of Mars, and Pellucidar (Hollow Earth) series, informing him of how his teacher had lectured the class about how bad those books were.

Burroughs replied:

(transcription in alt text. from ERBzine)

Any book that gets people - especially young people - to develop a love for reading is a good book.

Part of our mission at Ad Astra is to spread the love of reading and writing. We believe good reads that offer hope for humanity can make the future a better place.

#reading #edgar rice burroughs #literature class #education #forrest j ackerman

[martinebirgitte]

Uni is almost back in session again: there’s sooo many books I have to read for literature class! Time to give up life and get into it (for the first time I’ll be able to reach my Goodreads goal lol)

#bookblr #reading #blog post #personal #literature #lit class #literature class #lit student #literature student

[atlantis-just-drowned]

List of stupid things my best friend and I did during our literature classes, that our dearly beloved teacher will probably judge us for until forever :

I'll be calling out @arsuns-ramblings here >:]

• Cutting a paper sheet in the shape of a stick man, then making a slipknot out of a cord, before passing it around the "neck" of our paper man, and hanging it down on one of the classroom's window's edge.

• Arriving to class with a couple of pinecones, then when she came to our table and saw them, she reacted like "uh okay?? Pinecones????", causing us to turn to one-another with big, delighted smiles, and both excitingly saying "PINECONES!!!" at the same time. (we had forgotten how they were called)

• Bursting out laughing after she said the most random things that had remembered us of some obscure references. (this happened a great couple of times)

• Noticing us giggling silently for something absolutely not related to the class topic, but unable to stop laughing. (once again, it happened several times)

• Including her in completely unrelated-to-class debates between just the two of us, at least once a week.

• We definitely tried to teach her some of our shady references so she could understand what was making us laugh (she didn't).

• Debating on the ethic of her exercises whenever possible.

• Including a little "(nice)" after writing 69 in one of our homeworks, and forgetting to erase it before handing over the said homework.

• Saying "we already saw/knew that" EVERYTIME she was starting to talk about a topic we had already studied the year before.

#she was so tired of us lmao #i'm so sorry #we're the worst students ever omg #though to be fair #we had so much fun #like it was incredibly funny #literature #literature class #english class #teachers #education #school

[plinko-mori]

I want people to analyze one draw I did about Mori, small draft I did in 5 minutes while I was bored in Literature Classes

Do I think people would actually do it? No

Do I think that because of my insecurity? Yes

Did I love the draw? Yes actually lol

#bsd mori #bsd ougai mori #bsd ogai mori #plinko mori #mori ougai #ougai mori #bsd mori ougai #bsd mori ogai #literature class

[jhsharman]

Hearts out for space requirements

It is pretty small class size to have at a moment of budget crunches, but maybe you have to keep all the teachers on staff and cut elsewhere -- here that is copies of Romeo and Juliet. Funny thing that the class is so easily divided into pairing up with everyone's love interest --thinking back on high school social dynamics and it seems like there was maybe two legitimate long term couples, maybe, throughout the school and not necessarily in every class period, but to have five like this (thrown in the trio of Archie, Betty, and Veronica)? With an odd number of students and one trio, Reggie and Jughead have to sit together -- breaking the gender matching -- somewhat unnecessary as you would figure one or the other should read with either Betty or Veronica but I guess the two got dibs on Archie somehow. Jughead would have been the odd man out, though I would not know who Reggie gets slid with -- maybe they can cool it with the romantic interest -- you are just reading for the danged class assignment.

#Archie Comics #Archie Andrews #Veronica Lodge #Betty Cooper #Jughead #Reggie Mantle #Chuck Clayton #Nancy woods #Moose Mason #Midge Klump #Mr. Weatherbee #Miss Grundy #Budget cuts #Literature class #Romeo and Juliet #Small class sizes #Dan Decarlo #1992

[rosethornewrites]

I’m idly remembering a final exam project I did for a literature class back in like 2003 or so. Twenty years.

This was a Joan of Arc lit class, and we read half a dozen plays, fiction, historical accounts, etc., that featured her. We had to attend a play, so I went to one with my friends at a university an hour away, and it was fabulously done, using a sort of experimental “you’re all on the stage and we’re acting around you on platforms” vibe. Ending with Joan being burnt at the stake (a ladder) with lighting effects going red and fog, slowly ascending.

But the final exam had to be group skits we would put on during the final exam period.

One of my best friends was taking the class, and another best friend was auditing for the hell of it (to hang with us in class), and so of course the little cohort of weirdos we’d gathered over the semester banded together as a group.

And I don’t know who came up with the idea, but I think I commented that the opening to the George Bernard Shaw play reminded me of a scene from like a Western, and that was it.

We decided to rewrite the first scene in multiple ways. Western, Valley Girl, and a few others. Each person did a rewrite in a style.

And my friend in the class played a director, starting us off with one of the rewrites and then yelling “Cut! From the top, but make it more Western” or what have you at a random part and then the same with each rewrite. With the "actors" slowly getting more and more visibly frustrated with every take, and ending with the original Shaw.

I wrote the Western and based it off of John Wayne movies. (Mom loved him so I grew up watching them.)

The professor was a former nun, and she was absolutely tickled.

Another group did a puppet show. Every single group did something completely unlike any other group and absolutely fun to watch.

One of the best final exams I ever took.

#tumblr university #joan of arc #literature #literature class #plays #academia

[webyboy]

how did school make essay writing a bad thing. Writing down opinions is so fucking awesome. I just wrote a page of Superman opinions and analysis in a discord server and it felt awsome.

#can a fella not have a treatise? #gorgeous gorgeous girls LOVE complex narratives about collonialism in comic books #Superman #literature class

[m00nlxv3r]

I have to read The Celestina for school, (a play from the *15th* century) and the only thing i can think of is who tf thought it was a good idea to make teenagers read that *in class* Lmaooo we have just ended the first act and It has said like a houndred times "fucking old whore!" and the most disgusting, funny, awful and disturbing sexual things u could imagine. every fucking time someone reads it, whe just start laughing, and the teacher gets mad. Like how can we not laugh?!? 😭

(if u want me to explain more tell me loll)

#like srsly #lmao what #help lmao #lol #literature class #classic literature #spanish #spanish literature #dark academia i guess #La celestina #celestina #pármeno #sempronio #calisto #melibea #areúsa #lucrecia #elicia #m00nlxv3r #dark acamedia #classic literature quotes

[sliding-graphite]

I say this as someone who really liked literature class…

Kinda fucked how literature teachers taught writing (especially poetic) devices and techniques as stuff exclusive for literature.

In retrospect, it made it seem like we had to memorise those for a single class, less incentive to consider why the techniques exist and much more difficult to apply them to other texts than just the ones we learned in class.

I don’t know if I’m going anywhere close to a Solution to it, but just… yeah. Add on if you wish.

#about literature #literature class #Damien / Vic critiques school stuff again

[miuamor]

there are people that have daddy issues and then theres kafka

#letter to my father #der brief an den vater #franz kafka #kafka #literature class #german literature #nan.txt #nan's school archives #nan rants #daddy issues

[cathy-plus-e]

I had my last literature class some days ago and the teacher asked us to do short tales about whatever we wanted with some conditions

I called the text «God of Immorality» but almost called it «Mipy Plinko Ougai Mori»

The thing is that 🤓☝🏻 classes ago we thought about the God/Goddess of what we would be and I chose immorality 🫶🏻

My morality is bad as fuck

All my texts and Original Characters are related to ”bad acts”

I only write pain, suffering and don't feel bad about it lol

My lack of empathy scares the people around me

I support things many people hate and viceversa 😛

I did a ted talk about Immorality, why I hate morality, and more lmao

#literature class #plinko mori #adopted parents council

[burnt-scone]

I find it funny I said something like important and heavy topic books could cause a little trauma or trigger past trauma, and someone reposted saying I was wrong and blocked me at the same time.

The post I reposted was saying English class and reading won't cause trauma, and I was like but it can.

Trauma isn't always something big, but can be something Itty bitty. Like it's a fact that re-arranging a room can be traumatic to your mind. No it's not something horrid, but it's still trauma. A 14-15 year old getting exposed to a heavy topic like m*rder, r*pe, abuse, r*cism, etc... can be traumatic, or if they're someone who has witnessed or experienced those topics, it could be triggering to pre-existing trauma.

Now I also listed an example that isn't common unless you have a sociopathic teacher who only shows up hungover the majority of the time she actually shows up.

I had a teacher, insane woman. When reading To Kill a Mocking Bird teachers show examples of similar cases to the one in the story, because the book shows realistic scenarios. Now she made us read all of the public information on one situations which was horrific, woman pretended to have been SAed because she didn't want to get in trouble with her dad. Then there were other stories of actually SAed women who didn't want to get men in their family in trouble so they blamed a local Black Man instead. These all went into heavy detail of what happened to these women. I mean very explicit. It caused half of my Female peers and a few Male peers to have PTSD attacks. The school had to apologize and asked students who was SAed which was very inappropriate. They should've apologized and then given an anonymous help or information thing.

Now I never said that was a universal situation, just that it happened to my peers and I.

I have no idea what the person who reposted mine said. It started say I'm the only person with that experienced that, like no shit I'm one of the 50ish kids. But whatever else they said I'll never see because the reposted and then blocked to me.

Silly.

#English class #Literature Class #Grammar class #books

[skandifae]

31. august 2022

so today i’ve received the reading pensum for my literature class (”queering the canon”) next semester, starting in october, and i am honestly so excited already and can’t wait to start reading (already picked the books up from my local book store!)

virginia woolf - orlando will self - dorian jeanette winterson - frankissstein sarah waters - fingersmith sara collins - the confessions of frannie langton

has anyone already read one or some of those books? what do you think!

#reading list #pensum #literature #literature class #english #english studies #university #curriculum #syllabus #virgina woolf #orlando #frankissstein #queer #queer literature #mine

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

#i started questioning how to spell it myself #but again... at least they knew the right answer #i love them endlessly #teacherblr #teacher life #teaching #english class #english teacher #grammar #literature #romeo and juliet #shakespeare #william shakespeare #language #tragedy