Why I hate English (the subjects), and don't consider it a real subject: It is massively arbitrary, and it depends on your marker's mood/interpretation of the piece that you are analysing. Take this example -
We were studying Widower in the Country with Mrs Mayers. And we discussed why it was effective, etc, and she was explaining how each stanza was "anticlimactic" [by the way, it is spelt like that, and also pronounced "an-tee-cliy-MAK-tik"]. Anyways, so when Mrs Mayers left for long service leave or whatever it was, Mrs Mason went through the same poem with us. And when asked to discuss, someone said "It emphasises how monotonous his day is because each stanza ends in an anticlimactic way."
To this, Mrs Mason did that thing where they consider the word carefully, and then she was like "No, I wouldn't use the word anticlimactic. That's not what I would use blah blah"
So if an English teacher can't even use a word that'll get full marks with another English teacher, then who the hell can?!
This is why right/wrong answer subjects (basically everything else minus HSIE, which is also bullshit) are the awesomesauce. Because if you're wrong, it is justifiably wrong and you know exactly how you can improve.
Now I'll just employ some irony and start hardcoring 2u and 3u oral assessments =(
On second thoughts, I'll leave a tab open and then do other stuff, feeling like I'm somewhat doing English.
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CORRECT THIS IS WHY ENGLISH IS BULLSHIT
i feel that, while english doesn't hold teachers liable for inconsistences like that, the teacher should also be blamed. i think that mayers welcomes different interpretations much more readily than mason (based on how they both treated student interpretations)
haha i also happen to have an article on the bullshittyness of postmodernism and literary critique
http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
it's very long, but i found it clearly written and laugh-out-loud funny at times
OMG i remember that D:
i dunno, maybe the fact that you can bs in english and still get good marks as long as you justify it properly is a positive thing tho (:
but yeah at the same time english is heaps subjective which can be bad if you unknowingly did something the teacher was against ... i feel sorry for the person who did forest gump with m@yers ):
What happened to the person that did Forrest Gump?
http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/108/765/original/1300154451929.jpg?1301090867
Dammit I love that link!
That's amazing.
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