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To: jalisco555
Like most high school students I had these books inflicted on me and I've yet to forgive my teachers.

My ninth grade english teacher had us read Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.......if I ever run across her I'll slap her silly.

FMCDH(BITS)

61 posted on 10/23/2004 8:09:09 AM PDT by nothingnew (KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
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To: nothingnew

Kid stuff, I had to read Tobias Smollett. I believe forcing young people to read TS is a felony in many states.


63 posted on 10/23/2004 8:12:26 AM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: nothingnew
My ninth grade english teacher had us read Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.......if I ever run across her I'll slap her silly.

You should kiss her. She could have made you read Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles...*shudder*

Thank God I can choose what I teach in Brit Lit! Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, etc. That's real literature!

122 posted on 10/23/2004 8:19:41 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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