#Literature class

[cathy-plus-e]

"come to daddy"

im dying 😂😂

anywy..

what does it mean when someone calls you 'plinko' on tumblr? what does 'plinko mori' mean? 👀

#nopressure asks 🍵

Plinko has two meanings: Describing a character or talking about horse plinko. For example, saying [x character] is my plinko means → Humiliating and derogatory term like eeby deeby, a character plinko is a character that you hate, want to see it suffer, that you like a little but find it extremely disgusting... I don't know if it would be the same for describing a person, but to indicate or compare emotions is a different situation

Plinko Mori is actually my pseudonym in my Literature classes and in almost everything I write, I actually had the idea here and posted it time ago

[adastra-sf]

Edgar Rice Burroughs to a young Forrest J Ackerman

In 1931, 14-year-old soon-to-be author, editor, and super-fan Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan, John Carter / Princess of Mars, and Pellucidar (Hollow Earth) series, informing him of how his teacher had lectured the class about how bad those books were.

Burroughs replied:

(transcription in alt text. from ERBzine)

Any book that gets people - especially young people - to develop a love for reading is a good book.

Part of our mission at Ad Astra is to spread the love of reading and writing. We believe good reads that offer hope for humanity can make the future a better place.

[martinebirgitte]

Uni is almost back in session again: there’s sooo many books I have to read for literature class! Time to give up life and get into it (for the first time I’ll be able to reach my Goodreads goal lol)

[atlantis-just-drowned]

List of stupid things my best friend and I did during our literature classes, that our dearly beloved teacher will probably judge us for until forever :

I'll be calling out @arsuns-ramblings here >:]

• Cutting a paper sheet in the shape of a stick man, then making a slipknot out of a cord, before passing it around the "neck" of our paper man, and hanging it down on one of the classroom's window's edge.

• Arriving to class with a couple of pinecones, then when she came to our table and saw them, she reacted like "uh okay?? Pinecones????", causing us to turn to one-another with big, delighted smiles, and both excitingly saying "PINECONES!!!" at the same time. (we had forgotten how they were called)

• Bursting out laughing after she said the most random things that had remembered us of some obscure references. (this happened a great couple of times)

• Noticing us giggling silently for something absolutely not related to the class topic, but unable to stop laughing. (once again, it happened several times)

• Including her in completely unrelated-to-class debates between just the two of us, at least once a week.

• We definitely tried to teach her some of our shady references so she could understand what was making us laugh (she didn't).

• Debating on the ethic of her exercises whenever possible.

• Including a little "(nice)" after writing 69 in one of our homeworks, and forgetting to erase it before handing over the said homework.

• Saying "we already saw/knew that" EVERYTIME she was starting to talk about a topic we had already studied the year before.

[plinko-mori]

I want people to analyze one draw I did about Mori, small draft I did in 5 minutes while I was bored in Literature Classes

Do I think people would actually do it? No

Do I think that because of my insecurity? Yes

Did I love the draw? Yes actually lol

[jhsharman]

Hearts out for space requirements

It is pretty small class size to have at a moment of budget crunches, but maybe you have to keep all the teachers on staff and cut elsewhere -- here that is copies of Romeo and Juliet. Funny thing that the class is so easily divided into pairing up with everyone's love interest --thinking back on high school social dynamics and it seems like there was maybe two legitimate long term couples, maybe, throughout the school and not necessarily in every class period, but to have five like this (thrown in the trio of Archie, Betty, and Veronica)? With an odd number of students and one trio, Reggie and Jughead have to sit together -- breaking the gender matching -- somewhat unnecessary as you would figure one or the other should read with either Betty or Veronica but I guess the two got dibs on Archie somehow. Jughead would have been the odd man out, though I would not know who Reggie gets slid with -- maybe they can cool it with the romantic interest -- you are just reading for the danged class assignment.

[rosethornewrites]

I’m idly remembering a final exam project I did for a literature class back in like 2003 or so. Twenty years.

This was a Joan of Arc lit class, and we read half a dozen plays, fiction, historical accounts, etc., that featured her. We had to attend a play, so I went to one with my friends at a university an hour away, and it was fabulously done, using a sort of experimental “you’re all on the stage and we’re acting around you on platforms” vibe. Ending with Joan being burnt at the stake (a ladder) with lighting effects going red and fog, slowly ascending.

But the final exam had to be group skits we would put on during the final exam period.

One of my best friends was taking the class, and another best friend was auditing for the hell of it (to hang with us in class), and so of course the little cohort of weirdos we’d gathered over the semester banded together as a group.

And I don’t know who came up with the idea, but I think I commented that the opening to the George Bernard Shaw play reminded me of a scene from like a Western, and that was it.

We decided to rewrite the first scene in multiple ways. Western, Valley Girl, and a few others. Each person did a rewrite in a style.

And my friend in the class played a director, starting us off with one of the rewrites and then yelling “Cut! From the top, but make it more Western” or what have you at a random part and then the same with each rewrite. With the "actors" slowly getting more and more visibly frustrated with every take, and ending with the original Shaw.

I wrote the Western and based it off of John Wayne movies. (Mom loved him so I grew up watching them.)

The professor was a former nun, and she was absolutely tickled.

Another group did a puppet show. Every single group did something completely unlike any other group and absolutely fun to watch.

One of the best final exams I ever took.

[webyboy]

how did school make essay writing a bad thing. Writing down opinions is so fucking awesome. I just wrote a page of Superman opinions and analysis in a discord server and it felt awsome.

[el-ffej]

You're doing God's work ma'am

[dramatic-dolphin]

when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said "professor, i don't understand the will of god"

the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can't help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.

[cathy-plus-e]

Before I knew your name was 'cathy' I referred to you as 'plinko'

Okay you gave me inspiration to do ✨ the official explanation of why my username is cathy-plus-e ✨

My real name (or dead name(?) is Catherine, which in English is pronounced "Catherin" (the th sound of Thursday and the e is silent) while in Spanish it's correctly pronounced as Caterine (h is silent and you say the e), yet people always say «Caterin» so I mostly introduce myself (in Spanish) as «Caterine with an e at the end» that can be summarized as Cathy (nickname-short version of my name) with e, Cathy + e...

Cathy Plus E

Also yeah Plinko Mori is my pseudonym in school when I do different things like tales, poems, etc... I used it mostly in my Literature classes... My side blog is named @plinko-mori for that exact same reason... And well I don't mind being called like the plinko 🤙🏻

You can keep referring to me as Plinko! I don't mind <3

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[miss-phamtom-1]

A guy in the 1800's writing about the Niagara Falls and how nature doesn't owe us anything:

Me in 2023:

[plinko-mori]

So in my Literature Classes my next evaluation is doing a biographical story

I'm doing a story about inspired in Ougai Mori, specially when he went to Russo-Japanese war, and it's going well

I know a lot of things about the author, and my imagination (which is required) serves me well at the moment to write about how Ougai was doing in the war

The only drama I have is at inventing things about Katai

[thestormlightnetwork]

me starting literature class: yeah i think i understand everything there is to know abou the story now me 45 minutes later: YOU FOOL!

[jackelopeofthelake]

Why do you think: “The reading comprehension on this site is piss poor” became a joke