She is patronizing and constantly tries to impose her own interpretation of poetry or a book on you. And I find it is disheartening, I don’t enjoy English lessons as much as I used to, ever since we got her as a teacher. My interpretetions are not absurd or too outside the box, she just tries so hard to assert that something means what she wants it to mean and nothing else: even when you can back your ideas up with evidence from the text. She does’nt inspire you to develop your own ideas. I don’t know what to do, she’s totally squashing my enthusiasm
What a pity. Don’t worry about it. If you have true enthusiasm you have one of two choices: you can defy her on tests, but you should expect to pay some sort of penalty, or you can ignore her completely and not take what she says seriously. Listen just well enough to understand her point. Try and see a pattern. What way does she consistently interpret things? There’s always a pattern to such things. It might be fun as well as valuable to try and discover what the pattern is. There is more at work here than you can guess: my opinion is that if you knew, you would likely pity her more than despise her or defy her. Not everyone is a Miss Gruwald.
Remember you will only have her this year/term.
Take care and good luck.
Sounds to me like she may be teaching for a test. She wants to be sure you see things her way so you can get good grades on her tests. You may consider starting a discussion group outside of her class to share the various opinions of the others in your group who enjoy literature and a good discussion. If she is a young inexperienced teacher or an old one set in her ways then she may feel too threatened of losing control to open the floor for meaningful discussion. Sometimes school survival means learning what the teacher wants you to learn so you can get a good grade. Unfortunately you will have to learn the subject matter for real later but it is a good experience in human relations. You may have a boss like that someday but hopefully you won’t be a boss like that.
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What a pity. Don’t worry about it. If you have true enthusiasm you have one of two choices: you can defy her on tests, but you should expect to pay some sort of penalty, or you can ignore her completely and not take what she says seriously. Listen just well enough to understand her point. Try and see a pattern. What way does she consistently interpret things? There’s always a pattern to such things. It might be fun as well as valuable to try and discover what the pattern is. There is more at work here than you can guess: my opinion is that if you knew, you would likely pity her more than despise her or defy her. Not everyone is a Miss Gruwald.
Remember you will only have her this year/term.
Take care and good luck.
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You are entitled to your own opinions, but who has the degree here? In order to become an English teacher, she had to analyze poetry and prose as well as to write long essays where she proved her theses with evidence from the texts. Her experience with analysis allowed her to become a teacher. Maybe you ought to listen to her more and stop thinking that you know as much as she does.
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