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Mr. Marineau, I Regret to Inform You That You Didn’t Ruin My Life, or: If I Taught High School English

Posted on 8 February 2011 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong I used to hate reading. In high school, I had a string of English teachers that did quite a job of having their students hate reading forever. My 10th grade Language Arts teacher Mr. Marineau was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Geo, Literature | Tagged aldous huxley, books, brave new world, charles bukowski, english, ernest hemingway, everything that rises must converge, f. scott fitzgerald, fiction, flannery o'connor, high school education, hunter s. thompson, john steinbeck, lolita, margaret atwood, mark twain, nathaniel hawthorne, novels, reading, school, short stories, teenagers, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the grapes of wrath, the great gatsby, the handmaid's tale, the scarlet letter, vladimir nabokov, william shakespeare | 16 Comments
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