Well, none of them live near Plainfield (Ed Gein's home). If someone charged me with being a tRump lover, there would be trouble.....
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Well, none of them live near Plainfield (Ed Gein's home). If someone charged me with being a tRump lover, there would be trouble.....
They still read some classics, at least in the advanced classes. I think both of my high school kids read 1984.
BTW, after the AP European History test was completed, the teacher had them watch Bill & Ted and The Search for the Holy Grail.
Although I'm not an Iowan any longer I hope this is informative.
Athos - are you calling me a tool? I would have thought you'd use the "Informative" button.
On second thought, I am kind of a tool.
My kids read Lord of the Flies. There was a useful tool for setting up future relationships.
I'm almost 10 years out. We read I Am The Cheese, To Kill a Mockingbird, Walden, Gatsby, The Jungle, Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies, Tuesdays with Morrie, Lance Armstrong's autobiography, Hamlet, and probably a couple other I can't remember. In 7th and 8th grade, we read a science fiction book I can't remember the title of and My Brother Sam Is Dead respectively.
I know (I think?) you were joking, but dudes that complained about blue balls always irked me. It feels kind of rapey like guilting a woman into sex. Mostly because “actual blue balls” (I put that in quotes because blue balls aren’t actually a real thing) are when you’ve started and are well into the process and stop, but most dudes are like “ugh I got a boner and now I’m going to have blue balls because looking at your boobs gave me a boner.”
Child please, if I got blue balls every time I just had a boner, I’d have blue balls every morning.
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I’m WAY out of high school now, but in AP English we read The Color Purple, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies, I believe.
It's bugging me now that I can't remember that name of the book from 7th grade. I think it was sci-fi. I remember the main character's name. Anders, I think. It definitely didn't take place on Earth. It would have been published no later than 2004.
Ender's Game was a 1985 sci-fi book and more recently a movie.
Update: I got my car back yesterday evening. They did a good job when they actually got around to it. Brakes are all fixed, check engine light is gone, and he even re-ground my front rotors because that needed done too (I knew it needed done before I took it in but I just hadn't said anything about it, and he asked if he could do it first so it wasn't like he was looking for extra things to charge me for). I went in to talk to him at lunch yesterday and he said, "we didn't know that you had a deadline for us to get this done but now that we know you need it we've got someone working on it" and he promised that it would be done by the end of the day. So, I reserve the right to not take my car back to him but at the end of the day my car is fixed, I'm not going to miss my trip, and the mechanic working on my car even came into the office from the shop and wished me a safe trip. So I shook his hand and let bygones be bygones. I've found that when I hold onto a grudge with someone it just ends up making me feel worse and they probably don't even know I'm upset so it's best to just forgive and forget and move on.
I graduated in 2015 and we read To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Romeo and Juliet, and Night by Elie Wiesel. I'm sure I read others too but those are the ones that I can remember right off the top of my head.
Nope. Large finger on small symbols on phone. The matter stands corrected. I've heard you're quite handy with your tool(s), but you are not, in fact, yourself a tool.
Mid-90's HS grad...Illinois.
Julius Ceasar
Romeo & Juliet
Tale of Two Cities
A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Ethan Frome
My Antonia
Winesburg, Ohio (ugh)
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Hamlet
MacBeth
Jane Eyre (UGH!)
And then a few movie adaptations of Shakespeare. We did see Mel Gibson's Hamlet, which we read, but we also saw The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and...Richard Burton? That was then followed immediately by the Moonlighting version with Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard. We ended my senior year with seeing Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
I'm probably missing a few books...I'd have to look at my old bedroom and see all the paperbacks I still have there.
Julius Ceasar
Romeo & Juliet
Tale of Two Cities
A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Ethan Frome
My Antonia
Winesburg, Ohio (ugh)
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Hamlet
MacBeth
Jane Eyre (UGH!)
And then a few movie adaptations of Shakespeare. We did see Mel Gibson's Hamlet, which we read, but we also saw The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and...Richard Burton? That was then followed immediately by the Moonlighting version with Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard. We ended my senior year with seeing Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
I'm probably missing a few books...I'd have to look at my old bedroom and see all the paperbacks I still have there.
Closest I came to any of those was watching Animal House in 1984 while in junior high.
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