Well, you've just made me feel grateful. I cannot imagine the trauma of trying to do D H Lawrence with that English teacher. Tess was bad enough and the whole endless, disturbing discussion on what precisely Alec did to Tess (including stopping Polanski's film to rewind and point things out). *turns faint with horror* It doesn't bear thinking about.
(I'm fairly confident I can trump your bad teacher. If, however, yours also made you do practice exam essays and then went round the class making everyone read them out aloud - and I do mean timed, practice exam essays scribbled so quickly you couldn't read your own handwriting back - and stopping them every so often to comment. (If it was Hardy, you could, if you were brave, save the rest of the class by using a Different Term to describe the rape scene, because he would have to stop and discuss that in detail. And he'd never heard of The Mabinogion. Asked me if it was some sf novel. You know, thinking about it now, we really should have told someone about all this, but you just kind of accept bad teachers, like bad weather at the time!! (He did get made to resign a couple of years later). Mind you, I shouldn't let Merle get away with ruining a good poet. I shall go find a collection of Robert Frost and exorcise the ghost, I think.
Erm... back in the worlds of DW...
I'm quite good at navigating the Big Swirly Plotty Things in Space, but I get easily sucked into orbits by smaller Planets of Daft AUs and throwaway lines. :-)
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Date: 2009-04-07 04:39 pm (UTC)(I'm fairly confident I can trump your bad teacher. If, however, yours also made you do practice exam essays and then went round the class making everyone read them out aloud - and I do mean timed, practice exam essays scribbled so quickly you couldn't read your own handwriting back - and stopping them every so often to comment. (If it was Hardy, you could, if you were brave, save the rest of the class by using a Different Term to describe the rape scene, because he would have to stop and discuss that in detail. And he'd never heard of The Mabinogion. Asked me if it was some sf novel. You know, thinking about it now, we really should have told someone about all this, but you just kind of accept bad teachers, like bad weather at the time!! (He did get made to resign a couple of years later). Mind you, I shouldn't let Merle get away with ruining a good poet. I shall go find a collection of Robert Frost and exorcise the ghost, I think.
Erm... back in the worlds of DW...
I'm quite good at navigating the Big Swirly Plotty Things in Space, but I get easily sucked into orbits by smaller Planets of Daft AUs and throwaway lines. :-)