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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:44 again--the one thing I did not like about the IB program was English. I learned how to write one heck of a paper and how to close-analyze the bejabbers out of one line of text, or one word, or the punctuation, or what the author didn't say. But by the end of 4 years of "unpacking" little chunks of texts, boy, was I sick to death of it and I really do think it damaged my enjoyment of classic literature. We were never able to just enjoy any books because we had to sit down and nitpick them to death, or constantly have in the backs of our minds how we could nitpick it to death. I think some of it resulted in losing the forest for the trees, and working so hard at going "deeper" all the time that we may have gone pretty far afield and wound up attributing motives and hidden meanings to the author that weren't actually there.

I haven't really picked up a work of "classic literature" since I graduated. I read a ton, of course, but it's mostly non-fiction and modern novels. I was a science major in college, so maybe I'm just not a literature person, but I can't help but wonder if I've always been that way or if IB English ruined it for me. IB History was absolutely fantastic and college history was a big disappointment in comparison, but man I hated IB English.[/quote]

I have yet to meet anyone that compares to Hines.[/quote]

+1 everyone loves mr. hines!!  :) [/quote]

He was the first teacher to ever tear my writing to pieces.  There was more red than black on my essay when I got it back.  I didn't know what to do.  But he was very generous with his time and gave me additional essays that he would review in order to improve my writing.  The English teachers whose names I no longer remember just gave me As and Bs.  I know that my ability to write a cohesive paper was due to Mr. Hines.[/quote]

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