Far from the obvious

Posted by September Blue Saturday, 1 March 2008

SCENE: My students, packing up their stuff. (Well. Half my students, packing up their stuff. God knows where everyone else had got to.)

Me: Oh, and when I say we're doing [X novel] next week, I mean we're doing all of it. So you do need to read the whole book, up to and including the end.

(But they know that, right?)

Students, in unison: What, really?/All of it?/*sigh*

(Wrong.)

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2 comments

  1. Laz Says:
    2 March 2008 at 00:05

  2. What is it that you're inflicting on them that they weren't expecting to have to read the end? One assumes not an Agatha Christie novel...

     
  3. September Blue Says:
    2 March 2008 at 23:21

  4. A medium-length novel. On an English course! Oh the horror!