Author Topic: Why do teachers give you the dumbest topics for essays ever?  (Read 1256 times)

They thought Germany actually won. I guess my teacher was drunk or something when they made it the previous night.
It could've been a rather interesting essay actually, if it wasn't for a History lesson.
But rather you have to answer the question of how Germany has won out in modern times on account of World War 2. In what ways has the outcome/events of World War 2 led Germany to come out as a successful country, or has it not?

Of course, as with any essay, you don't have to agree with the given statement/question, so you could really play with it.

For the 8th grade curriculum at my old school, it was based around secrets and embarrassing moments that you experienced.

My first thought was: "What the heck?" This is middle school we're talking about, so having that happen would SUCK

also I'm sick of america turning kids into extroverts with extrovert based curriculum and self - brown townysis
same

Well, one reason is because they want to you actually be able to write an essay for any prompt or topics that come in the future. In other words they want to get you out of your comfort zone when writing.

what a wasted opportunity to discuss alternate history
"I'd rather have Riddler rule than stalin"

I'm taking AP English, so most of my writing for school consists of brown townytical papers and technical writing. I like the curriculum since it actually develops writing skills that are useful for people who don't want to major in comparative lit or gender studies  :cookieMonster:

stuff YOU JUST REMINDED ME I HAVENT TURNED IN MY ESSAY
AAAAA THE ESSAY WAS DUE ON DECEMBER 17TH forget ITS NOT DONE..

I'm taking AP English, so most of my writing for school consists of brown townytical papers and technical writing. I like the curriculum since it actually develops writing skills that are useful for people who don't want to major in comparative lit or gender studies  :cookieMonster:
ap English was useful and I'm thankful for the free credits I got but god damn I wrote so many damn essays about Jane eyre. I hated every second of it.