Elite Prep School Quashes Vampire Rumors.

[noonwitch]

I assume the kids are required to read "The National Inquirer" instead of Reader's Digest in Frosh English these days. ;)

LS

Were you required to read Reader's Digest in frosh English?


I think the kids are still required to read Romeo and Juliet, and A Tale Of Two Cities in Frosh English, like they did when I was in school. The question is more did they learn how to read well enough in K-8 that they can successfully complete their reading assignments in 9th grade?

[Last Samurai]

Amongst MANY other things, Yes. The objective was to obtain volcabulary building techniques from such standard departments as "Towards a more picturesque speech" and the vocabulary quiz, et al.

I WAS referring to High School Frosh English. (Just to be sure.)

Apparently the effort paid dividends.... I can bandy about four syllable words with the best of them.... AND understand what they mean too boot!

Nothing hurts my feelings more than to use a completely honest multisyllabic word, in perfect context, only to see the look of perplexity cross the visage of the recipient of my verbage. One can hear William F. Buckley spinning in his grave.

LS

[Last Samurai]

The thought comes to mind.... since "Big Brother" HAS been elected, perhaps we could take the onus of learning ALL those nasty BIG words and what they mean out of the education process by adopting NewSpeak as the National Official Language. :eek:

(If the students don't come up to your standards.... lower your standards!) ;)

I wouldn't be much of a quantum leap from "Politically Correct" Speak and the Dem preferred "Doublespeak" to NewSpeak. But I suppose that would be doubleplusungood for most of us to have to take.

LS

[linda22003]

Nothing hurts my feelings more than to use a completely honest multisyllabic word, in perfect context, only to see the look of perplexity cross the visage of the recipient of my verbage. One can hear William F. Buckley spinning in his grave.

LS

Probably because you left the "i" out of "verbiage". And on another thread you spelled "loser" with two o's. :p

[noonwitch]

Amongst MANY other things, Yes. The objective was to obtain volcabulary building techniques from such standard departments as "Towards a more picturesque speech" and the vocabulary quiz, et al.

I WAS referring to High School Frosh English. (Just to be sure.)

Apparently the effort paid dividends.... I can bandy about four syllable words with the best of them.... AND understand what they mean too boot!

Nothing hurts my feelings more than to use a completely honest multisyllabic word, in perfect context, only to see the look of perplexity cross the visage of the recipient of my verbage. One can hear William F. Buckley spinning in his grave.

LS

I forgot that they had the vocabulary tests in Reader's Digest. Those are probably somewhat helpful for a teacher who is too lazy to come up with his or her own tests. I always read the "Drama In Real Life" stories while I'm waiting at the dentist's office. My grandma used to read RD all the time, and when I was a kid, I could always read up on stories about serial killers and people surviving plane crashes with no adult ever questioning what I was reading, because it was RD.

[Rebel Yell]

Probably because you left the "i" out of "verbiage". And on another thread you spelled "loser" with two o's. :p

But those are only 3 and 2 syllable words, respectively.