I know, I know, it’s a COMIC and it depends on us readers to already know the characters so Mallett can play them off against each other without tedious explanation. But still:
I never went to a school where the next year I still had the same teachers. And the next. And the next. And of course I did get older and perhaps even wiser (at least some portions of my anatomy) while moving from class to class, teacher to teacher.
Maybe I’m seeing this wrong, but, I find these Summer reading lists (or any requirement for reading) may very-well have the opposite effect… to turn the students off from reading. When anyone is forced to do something, it tends to kill the potential enjoyment.We didn’t do that, in school, and I love to read, now.
Calvin was six years old and had Mrs. Wormwood for ten years. Some comics, like “For Better or Worse” were age-progressive, but most are locked in one time period. No point in overthinking it.
Bilan 19 days ago
It’s not easy for her to come up with books that Caulfield hasn’t read and the others can enjoy.
unfair.de 19 days ago
Just look at the list of books-to-be-banned by religious and republican nutjobs. Plenty to have kids reading to help them thinking.
Rhetorical_Question 19 days ago
Too late to be clever?
Concretionist 19 days ago
I know, I know, it’s a COMIC and it depends on us readers to already know the characters so Mallett can play them off against each other without tedious explanation. But still:
I never went to a school where the next year I still had the same teachers. And the next. And the next. And of course I did get older and perhaps even wiser (at least some portions of my anatomy) while moving from class to class, teacher to teacher.
BJDucer 18 days ago
Ok, I’m wondering just how Caufield learned that Mrs. Olsen hadn’t come up the reading list yet…..
rshive 18 days ago
Have to do the fun stuff first.
petermerck 18 days ago
Teacher, you forgot to give us homework. (We never had summer reading lists).
JacquieBanks Premium Member 18 days ago
To me “harangue” is a drawn out, repetitive, nagging interaction whereas “harrass” is a one-and-done episode.
George C. Hopkins 18 days ago
You know it’s a comic, and yet you still complain about a well-established and widely accepted plot continuity device.
MT Wallet 18 days ago
I never had a summer reading list and I wouldn’t have done it. It’s summer and I want to be free.
Mary McNeil Premium Member 18 days ago
Is Caulfield learning there might be a time to shut up ?
tinstar 18 days ago
Maybe I’m seeing this wrong, but, I find these Summer reading lists (or any requirement for reading) may very-well have the opposite effect… to turn the students off from reading. When anyone is forced to do something, it tends to kill the potential enjoyment.We didn’t do that, in school, and I love to read, now.
spinner 17 days ago
Calvin was six years old and had Mrs. Wormwood for ten years. Some comics, like “For Better or Worse” were age-progressive, but most are locked in one time period. No point in overthinking it.