This odious comic is a great example of how modern online anti-intellectualism looks: All literature is a simple declaration of fannish affiliation ("I'm on Team Raven!") and any attempt to find deeper meaning is gibberish invented by teachers to make themselves feel smart.
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I did not get a D. I was on honor Roll that year. Of Mice and Men is better.
I could focus on the story and was more allowed to trash most of the characters.
And the Crusible… which I also hated.
I still remember her. And it still bugs me.
They always choose such boring or illsuited books for class. Plays belong in theater class. Not English.
Of Mice and Men was the only good one
How to teach kids to hate books. If they picked Poe I would have prob been happier since I read the complete collection in middle school.
for shits and giggles
BUT THAT'S JUST MY INTERPRETATION. :)
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My daughter has been enjoying your book "Among the Red Stars," too, might I add!
Anecdotal, but yeah I left edu for a reason. State wasn't going to let me teach it right.
So yes, there is a literal narrative, but assuming it will be read the same when ppl have diff language-cultural frameworks isn't really how it works /gen
I may be wrong, but to believe otherwise leads to raven.
But they will learn work instructions and bible verses by heart.
These people read the Bible.
If you view art as pretty little drawings then wwhat's stopping you from just lloking at ai art or jiggling your keys for few minutes
My turn next: it's about kids on an island. It includes symbolism.
She got a better grade.
hate the book but i'd live to see the pretzel they'd tie themselves in to explain how the literal symbol on her dress isn't symbolic.
Like just cut that out and treat it as a non-sequitur without the “the curtains are just blue” nonsense
They're just watching it happen and thinking "yeah, that tracks."
help me. please. why is thi
If they want to think the Raven is about how birds are neat, well, I'm gonna be over there thinking about the poem and what it might all mean and how the cadences and and
I focused on learning to learn, skills, and learning to think by bringing the process to the front of every task.
And btw, of course ravens aren't birds. \scoffs
Like ok, she claims she put a break because it’s a place to pause when reading. So why pause there? It’s not just where you run out of breath, she let the second stanza run twice as long. There’s an obvious thematic division.
can confirm
Hated forced only one correct metaphors or interpretations.
Yes, saying you’re team raven and there’s nothing deeper is silly!
But you then also need to interrogate the suggested deeper meanings and where they’re coming from! Don’t take those at face value either!
It’s analysis all the way down.
When I took Spanish in High School, the short stories by folks like Borges and Marquez we dipped into were so important to me! How do you teach a language without ever teaching literature
somewhat related, i remember taking French in college (i was an older student) and my class partner, fresh out of high school, had never heard of Napoleon.
other countries in English classes. I don’t think my kids ever did in high school, except for the Iliad and the Odyssey in translation. But I still think it’s weird my kid in French classes doesn’t read French lit. My kid in college read Baudelaire and Proust in a Gen Ed class. 🤷🏻♀️
But hated Great Gatsby more.
- George Orwell
…it is too early for this.
I feel like I didn't really learn the ability to analyze until college because all that was fed to me was what the meaning was and not how we got there, like THAT is the bigger issue to me
The very claim is in itself a remarkably revisionist reading.
Incredibly ironic.
Cartoonist: Yeah, Poe just loved him some ravens.
This is how we got here.
It's...it's not a difficult allusion. 😳
The author of this comic must just like unhappy ghosts.
Surely there's no other message this comic is trying to convey, right?
I mean, the Raven's really well known, we've all seen at least one homage or heard part of it, there's no way on God's green Earth anybody will go "oh yeah he liked ravens". It's like claiming "ah but does the book ever CONFIRM Dracula's a vampire"