• @[email protected]
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    973 months ago

    Flowers for Algernon, that was thought provoking but also way too heavy for a 7th grade English class.

    • ComradeSharkfucker
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      263 months ago

      This shit made me fucking sob, I was also in seventh grade. I came to this comment section to mention it. Unforgettable

    • @[email protected]
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      203 months ago

      Jesus Christ. I read that aged 27 and cried like a baby. Way too heavy for grade school.

    • @GrabtharsHammer
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      3 months ago

      That was 5th grade for me. I still wonder what that teacher was thinking.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 months ago

        Did the teacher at least spend time discussing it, or did they just lay it on you and let you sort it out for yourselves? Either way, that’s pretty early!

        • @GrabtharsHammer
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          93 months ago

          It was discussed chapter by chapter. And we watched the movie version after for good measure.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        Same here. We read FFA, The Veldt, The Tell Tale Heart, All Summer in a Day, and a few other short stories in some “advanced readers class,” that we had to go to the library once a week to attend.

        I think they were trying to fuck up all the smart kids.

    • kryllic
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      43 months ago

      Was making sure this had a mention. This was brutal to read in 6th grade at 10 in the morning.