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This Is Not A Test
By:JosŽ Vilson
Published on 2014-05-27 by Haymarket Books

Vilson, a teacher from an urban school composed of black and poor youth, challenges racism and inequality in the classroom.

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(Please understand that many a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its really complex and foolish! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not really a review written in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his capability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a quality that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of the same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies that he designs problems... which might be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it absolutely was meant to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. Together with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None of us had read the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to make me virtually hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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I really like you and the futile grasping with similes this won't be able to approach the actual bilious hate in the heart. You will be acquire, and I am yours. Figuratively chatting, of course. And after this and here is the examine: Macbeth simply by Bill Shakespeare is the better literary function inside English expressions, and also anyone who disagrees is usually an asshole and a dumbhead.