What are you reading for school?
By chemcdow
@chemcdow (149)
United States
January 20, 2009 11:01pm CST
What book are you reading for school right now? Do you like it? What kind of assignments do you have to do?
Right now I am reading The Iliad by Homer. I have trouble reading this type of poem, but am enjoying it anyway. I have to post on BlackBoard multiple times a week (it's an online class).
I'm asking this to see what kind of different assignments different schools assign.
3 responses
@michel_sun (219)
• China
21 Jan 09
um, I am reading The Confucian, which was wrote in ancient Chinese,difficult to understand. However,now, I really like it. It's full of phylosophy.
@frenchcountry (134)
• United States
23 Jan 09
I am currently reading Ordinary People by judith quest for a literature class. We also have to read black lotus and let's roll a very broad field of reading
read on
@HansonFan (1653)
• United States
22 Jan 09
I'm in a class called The Novel and we have to read a variety of novels and focus on their intertextuality ( a book taking something from another and using it. Such as a parody or a remake). Right now we are reading 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton which uses a lot of themes from Beowulf which we have already read along with Grendel. All three books just go together. Further down the road we will be reading King Lear, Pride and Prejudice, and the story about the big whale [Mylot won't let me use the D word, lol. Moby ____, ;)] and books that go along with them. It is actually a very good thing to study, as I had no clue what we were going to be doing in this class before the first day.
I had to read The Iliad a couple of years ago and I didn't really care for it. I'm not personally fond of war books, but I loved The Odyssey. I'm a big Italian history fan and I study Latin so I had no choice when it came to The Iliad, but it is not one of my favorites.
