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Rhiannon12866

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4. Sounds to me like you were an honor student! As well as a hero to your classmates

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 20, 2025, 02:59 AM

Apr 20

I think my teacher thought a lot of me since she wrote "I hope to hear good things about you" in my yearbook. Though when we read "The Scarlet Letter" and had to write an essay on it, that teacher read one of those essays aloud to the class and I could tell she didn't approve. I realized it was mine and I had said that I didn't think that Hester Prynne did anything wrong - she had an abusive husband! I wonder how that would go over today - or if "The Scarlet Letter" is on the banned book list.

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Velshi Banned Book Club: 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald turns 100 - Velshi - MSNBC [View all] Rhiannon12866 Apr 20 OP

"The Great Gatsby" was required reading in my American Literature class during my junior year of high school. TexasTowelie Apr 20 #1

Same here! It sounds like all the books that we read that year qualify for Velshi's "Banned Book Club!" Rhiannon12866 Apr 20 #2

My teacher during my junior year was extremely tough. TexasTowelie Apr 20 #3

Sounds to me like you were an honor student! As well as a hero to your classmates Rhiannon12866 Apr 20 #4