FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for May 29, 2013
May 28, 2013
May 30, 2013
Transcript:
Jason: I wish I hadn't put off so many books in english class this year. Now I have to read 1,200 pages before tomorrow's final exam. Paige: Can't you just read the cliffs notes? Jason: I'm talking about the cliffs notes. Paige: Maybe you should just skim the titles.
legaleagle48 almost 11 years ago
Wow. There’s lazy, and then there’s that.
Zero-Gabriel almost 11 years ago
They NEED to reinvent Teaching… to MAKE it interesting to LEARN…
whims almost 11 years ago
That’d be Cliffs Notes from about 10 novels… is a novel a month reasonable? I don’t remember reading assignments in English being quite so vigorous.
rmacprivate almost 11 years ago
Never would have passed English classes in junior high, if it weren’t for the Lit. part. Diagramming sentences, shudder. Bored me stiff, didn’t care then and still could give a rodents rear end about all that. Guess it shows, huh?
scrabblefiend almost 11 years ago
It’s interesting as an adult to go back and re-read some of the books you had to read in high school. Once you don’t have to analyze them, they can be pretty good.
Now I have joined a book club at my library. We read a book and meet to discuss it. Much more enjoyable than the high school method of vocabulary, etc. We can even argue that it was a terrible book, whatever it was.
trekkermint almost 11 years ago
Now, just skim on Wikipedia.
Doctor11 almost 11 years ago
Peter is a real dummy if he thinks cliff notes will help him. I rather read the books.
marvee almost 11 years ago
He’d better be able to at least match the title with the author.
whims almost 11 years ago
hmph…‘reply’ doesn’t work for me.@Strod120 pages per Cliffs Notes seems reasonable as an upper bound.@ScyphiI figured a regular, generic high school English class.