You know something is wrong with the world when a yr 10 class is studying Twilight instead of To Kill a Mockingbird, amirite?

Meyer puts a bad name to aspiring female novelists.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why female novelists any more so than anyone else? Does she also put a bad name to aspiring white novelists?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I studied TKAM in grade 9. So BOOM. smirk

On a different note, how the fuck can you study Twilight? Especially in the same way as classics. "One reason for the supposed sparkling of the vampires can be brought to the quote 'All that glitters is not gold.' Typically, vampires are seen as ruthless, blood-sucking creatures but Meyer takes a different direction by making hers not prey on the blood of humans, but rather animals. This makes them seem more friendly and closer to 'gold', if you will."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's actually a psychology class studying the effects of a stupid book's influence on millions of tweens.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh, shit, I read that as grade 10 (I'm not sure how). I'm bad at reading and I apologize. (cry2)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i thought it was ten year olds and was confused as to why you were bragging about it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At first, I thought you meant ten-year-OLDS, and my first thought was, "WTF, I didn't study To Kill A Mockingbird until I was fifteen; why the hell are TEN year olds studying it?!" And I didn't get that you DIDN'T mean ten-year-olds until after I read the comments... I'm such an idiot sometimes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

...I read it in my 6th grade English class when I was 10.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You were in sixth grade when you were ten?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I have a late November birthday and my parents decided to put me into Kindergarden early. I was 10 for the first 3 months of 6th grade and I remember TKAM was the first book we read.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This can't be true.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well what do you mean by studying? In my creative writing class, we studied and picked apart Twilight, from sentence structure to word choice, along with what was right and wrong about it, and what made the book so popular.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Do you remember what was right about it? I'm curious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well our teacher picked a part that needed a lot of improvement, so there wasn't much right.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@DynoRawr That's a creative writing class though, not the required for credit English class that studies classic novels and reads things like Romeo and Juliet.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@PurpleMonkeys, true, but then again there are also other books you read in English class that aren't core curriculum, but because the teacher likes the book. I've read Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in seventh grade, and then had to reread Romeo and Juliet.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh yeah, that's true. I remember reading several "just because" books in middle school, but not so much in high school until I took an elective reading class.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would move schools if my teacher told me I was 'studying' twilight.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm more surprised that year 10 is 9th grade. I always thought that it was another way of saying 10th grade.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't see how you could study Twilight, unless you are studying abusive relationships or how not to write a novel.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If I were to study a teen fiction novel, I would prefer Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. They have symbolism and actually meaning. And I //really// don't like Harry Potter.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But... who doesn't like Harry Potter?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

KirstenAnn, apparently That would be addressed to Anon but something about "Anon, KirstenAnn, apparently." didn't sound right. At all. So consider this as me addressing it to Anon in a moderately awkward way.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd get up and walk out of class if my teacher tried to pull that nonsense.

by Anonymous 11 years ago