(09 Nov 2014, 6:09 pm)Dan wrote Anyone read Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White"?
I was meant to finish it over half term for A-Level English, but found it far too boring and difficult to understand to even begin to finish the first section of the book. Our teacher gave us another week to complete it, yet I'm still only on Page 120ish out of 600. I tend to dip in and out of 'learning styles' (visual/auditory/kinaesthetic), but I find I'm an auditory learner in English. I'm listening to an audiobook version as it's read out loud and helps me understand what some of the more difficult (dated) language means as I have time to think about it, but I'm only 265 minutes in (which is one fifth of the entire book) and I'm meant to have finished it by tomorrow.
I've tried to explain to the teacher in the past that I don't enjoy reading as it is, without being forced to read something which I can hardly understand and isn't, in my opinion, interesting in the slightest - but she loves reading and everything about it and fails to understand why I'm not the same. It doesn't help that the only other student in my class (who hasn't read the book) told the teacher last week that she had read about 400 pages. In reality, her mam has just talked her through the plot of the book and she's only able to answer simple questions about the plot.
Honestly haven't got time to read a 600-page novel in such a short period of time whilst doing all of my other work for school as well as balancing that with my interests outside of school...
And just so you can get a feel for what the font size for this 600-page 1860s novel is...
In Year 8, I had a maths teacher like that. He was an engineer before he was a maths teacher, and whenever he set us an 'online homework', you could relate it to engineering! It could be something as simple as getting a digger to dig up so many scoops of dirt until you've filled eight twelfths of a hole, but he wouldn't go on anything other!
And as a maths teacher, he was just as relentless about the way he carried out that job! If you couldn't do a twenty page test for homework because you were moving house - instant bad comment!
My science teacher this year is just as bad, if not worse!
Just to throw it in, I absolutely love English, but I absolutely hate reading! - it's the most gruelling, and time consuming task a person can undergo!