"Forced Recommendations" When I was in seventh grade, I…
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"Forced Recommendations"
When I was in seventh grade, I was a bit of a class disruption. My teachers praised my abilities to comprehend their teaching, but they condemned me for tossing bombs out of boredom. Within all of that, I had one teacher who took an innovative approach by offering to give me an "A" for the term if I would read five stories she picked, wait a day then write a report on what I learned AND stayed docile in class. Nothing else. Just those three.
The stories she assigned me were:
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Allegory of the Cave by Plato
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
***Cannot remember!!!***
All four of the stories that I remember have stayed with me throughout life and I learn lessons regularly that connect back to each of them. The fifth, or the forgotten story is the one that really really gnaws at me. Given the impact of the other four, I am certain that the fifth had similar lessons to share and my life is somewhat incomplete, like a jigsaw puzzle, without knowing what they are.
I do have a few "suspects" - stories that I read as a teen which have also stayed with me - but I cannot confirm whether any of them were the actual fifth story. I have also tried to track down my teacher but it was forty plus years ago and she is nowhere to be found.
Had anyone else had a similar experience? If not the jigsaw puzzle, then some "forced recommendations" that made a huge impression despite your initial resistance to them?
#entertainment
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a bit of a class disruption. My teachers praised my abilities to comprehend their teaching, but they condemned me for tossing bombs out of boredom. Within all of that, I had one teacher who took an innovative approach by offering to give me an "A" for the term if I would read five stories she picked, wait a day then write a report on what I learned AND stayed docile in class. Nothing else. Just those three.
The stories she assigned me were:
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Allegory of the Cave by Plato
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
***Cannot remember!!!***
All four of the stories that I remember have stayed with me throughout life and I learn lessons regularly that connect back to each of them. The fifth, or the forgotten story is the one that really really gnaws at me. Given the impact of the other four, I am certain that the fifth had similar lessons to share and my life is somewhat incomplete, like a jigsaw puzzle, without knowing what they are.
I do have a few "suspects" - stories that I read as a teen which have also stayed with me - but I cannot confirm whether any of them were the actual fifth story. I have also tried to track down my teacher but it was forty plus years ago and she is nowhere to be found.
Had anyone else had a similar experience? If not the jigsaw puzzle, then some "forced recommendations" that made a huge impression despite your initial resistance to them?
#entertainment
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