Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Kids, especially 11 year olds, like games, as cliché as that might sound. All you have to do is make it fun and interesting for him, and he'll be more engaged. I wish I could tell you how to do that, but that's something I'm struggling with, right now. I'm teaching Hamlet, and they all whine about the same thing, "It's boring! I don't see why we should be reading Hamlet!" I'm doing everything to make it fun that I can, but I can't help but remind myself that I'm not exactly a 15 year old, anymore.

I dunno, I guess I'm not much help. Maybe I'm a little salty over the fact that I can't get my students to buy-in to me or my subject, right now. All's I'm saying is, try to make a game out of it. Like, see how fast he can connect the what'sit to the whoseamajigger and time it, or something along those lines. Make it competitive and fun.

that makes no sense at all; I didnt report it and I'm not religious. Disagreeing now means butthurt here apparently.

I'm trying to show them that, but they're so caught up in the language throughout the play.

It's exhausting, but we'll soldier onward. They need to stick with it, because in a couple weeks, we're going to be doing Julius Ceasar, and that one they don't have a choice in.

Then again, that unit will be laid out for me by an experienced teacher, so maybe that'll be a little better.

I've read some of Shakespeare cause I wanted even though it wasn't required for school :v someone once saw me reading, I think MSND and was like
"what are you reading?"
"Shakespeare"
"OH GOD WHY?!?!"
cause I like it *shrugs*

Let them read some Poe, Mag.

We already read my favorite Poe story, The Cask of Amontillado. They... thought it was boring.

These kids really hate reading.

I have one student who does this. She's actually really enjoying it, which is awesome.

We already read my favorite Poe story, The Cask of Amontillado. They... thought it was boring.

These kids really hate reading.

These kids really hate reading.

Well to be fair someone might like reading but just not like classic literature. Some things can be quite heavy. And the language being somewhat archaic can be offputting as well.

True. I sometimes take it for granted how well I can deal with different linguistics and whatnot. Ironic though cause I couldn't get even 40 pages into say: A Clockwork Orange without being completely lost and feeling hopeless about the whole thing. Damned thing even has a glossary on the backside.

That was Heart of Darkness for me. Marlow and Kurtz can take their density and stick it up their yeahs!

Also, to a lesser extent, Finnegan's Wake, but you'd have to be a full blown genius to get through that monstrosity in one piece.

What made me feel even more bad about the whole thing was how Burgess outright refuted the film as being anything remotely like his intended vision. But this is a common occurrence when print transitions to film.

I remember last time I saw my hs english teacher she said "I'm trying to read Ulysses for the third time..hopefully I'll finish it".

I forgot how perverted the mod community could be or rather has been when it comes to FFXI.
/sigh

Ever played Tomb Raider?

Never seen pervy mods of TR. Though honestly I don't think I've ever seen them for console games in general.

TES mods are much worse than anything in any Tomb Raider. I once saw a mod that allows you to rape your enemies. I've seen some ***.

This is why I actually prefer playing on console, no reason to browse mods.