I remember reading it and loving it. Really enjoyed the book as a young’n.
I remember watching the film and absolutely adoring it.
I remember the book, haven’t heard theres a film to it. I’ll give it a go later
Great book and early access to Tim Roth. What’s not to love?
“I’m old Gandalf”
This was released after I left school and the book was not used at my school. Did anyone else do *Of Mice and Men*?
Never heard of this. Seems that the book only came out a couple years before I was in year 7 and the film came out after I left school so that probably explains why.
I think about this book everytime I look at a Chinese takeaway menu.
There is a film?! I had no idea. I was always wary of the shed after reading this book at school.
Skellig, Holes, Great Expectations, and Of Mice and Men.
We did of mice and men, but when I moved up to doing highers (Scottish system, they’re between a GSCE and an A-Level and you do about 5) we had a great time. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, The Godfather (yes, the film, we got to do film analysis in English class), and Othello.
spent a large portion of year 7 english lessons slowly going through this… (2011-12)
I had totally forgotten about this. Thanks!
Never heard of it, but anything with Kelly MacDonald in is automatically brilliant in my books…
No
I had to read “King Of The Castle” & Holes (I think)
i always wanted to read this, i remember seeing it in a book catalogue but they never got it in the school library and the librarian had no idea what the book was. was it any good?
Ah yeah we did this in primary I think, my memory on when is a bit fuzzy but I do recall that they didn’t have enough copies for all of us so the teacher would sit us all in front of her and read it to us. It was alright. I’d rate it 27 out of 53.
The books I actually remember reading in secondary were Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls.
Did no one had to suffer Shakespeare. Henry V and Macbeth and then BeoWulf for A’s. Got us prepped for entering a time porthole that would leave in me Tudor or Saxon England.
The book came out in 1998 and the film only in 2009. So I think a big chunk of the people here might not be aware of the book. Was it on the English curriculum? Certainly didn’t see it on the English curriculum in Wales in between 98-04.
For me it was Of Mice and Men, The Invisible Man, Pygmalion, Danny Champion of the World, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
I don’t know this. We did, “my family and other animals.” Very relatable to a kid from Manchester in the late 80s
did it in primary school 😂
I had to watch and analyse Tsotsi in secondary school.
Lol, we still had slideshows and 8mm film projectors when I was at school.
Oh fuck… this brings back memories. Vague, and yet unpleasant, memories.
All I remember is a kid going “bloody bloody bloody” and then an adult is like YOU LITTLE **SHIT**
No, we had Stig of the Dump.
Wow I was thinking about this book a few days ago, I was remembering the man with wings. But couldn’t for the life of me recall what it was called, thanks.
“He stood erect” possibly the worst sentence to say to a class of year 8’s
The Chinese order has been forever burned into my mind. 27 & 53, 27 & 53, 27 & 53…
That DVD is from when Tim Roth was still doing decent films and TV shows. Therefore form a golden age of the past. Mind it could be coinciding with the start of the decline. Only his work with Tarantino has remained decent.
Anyone who disagrees come at me and defend his Sepp Blatter bomb.
Memories! I remember reading this at school.
I’m starting to think we were lucky when we got to watch Little Nicky in RE.
So, when the National Framework for Teaching English (or ‘the big blue binder’ to give it its official name) came in around 2000/2001-ish, Skellig was used as the example text in some of the Schemes of Work printed in there. Because redoing every Scheme in this scary new way looked like a ridiculous amount of work, loads of English Departments just bought Skellig and used the samples to give themselves a leg up on the new way of working. And because books are expensive they stick around for years being retaught, which is why so many of you were forced to read this at school.
On behalf of the very old English teachers here, I would like to apologise to you all. I hated this book. It’s three or four amazing chapters that the writer never really got a handle on what to do with afterwards, and it just never fulfils its promise.
Oh lord I remember this
Could’ve sworn that was super hans y’know
I read this in yr6 it wasn’t the best book I’d read but also definitely not the worst. (The worst I think is holes)
nope, our torture was Of Mice and Men, including the John Malkovich film
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Read a DVD?
I remember reading it and loving it. Really enjoyed the book as a young’n.
I remember watching the film and absolutely adoring it.
I remember the book, haven’t heard theres a film to it. I’ll give it a go later
Great book and early access to Tim Roth. What’s not to love?
“I’m old Gandalf”
This was released after I left school and the book was not used at my school. Did anyone else do *Of Mice and Men*?
Never heard of this. Seems that the book only came out a couple years before I was in year 7 and the film came out after I left school so that probably explains why.
I think about this book everytime I look at a Chinese takeaway menu.
There is a film?! I had no idea. I was always wary of the shed after reading this book at school.
Skellig, Holes, Great Expectations, and Of Mice and Men.
We did of mice and men, but when I moved up to doing highers (Scottish system, they’re between a GSCE and an A-Level and you do about 5) we had a great time. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, The Godfather (yes, the film, we got to do film analysis in English class), and Othello.
spent a large portion of year 7 english lessons slowly going through this… (2011-12)
I had totally forgotten about this. Thanks!
Never heard of it, but anything with Kelly MacDonald in is automatically brilliant in my books…
No
I had to read “King Of The Castle” & Holes (I think)
i always wanted to read this, i remember seeing it in a book catalogue but they never got it in the school library and the librarian had no idea what the book was. was it any good?
Ah yeah we did this in primary I think, my memory on when is a bit fuzzy but I do recall that they didn’t have enough copies for all of us so the teacher would sit us all in front of her and read it to us. It was alright. I’d rate it 27 out of 53.
The books I actually remember reading in secondary were Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls.
Did no one had to suffer Shakespeare. Henry V and Macbeth and then BeoWulf for A’s. Got us prepped for entering a time porthole that would leave in me Tudor or Saxon England.
The book came out in 1998 and the film only in 2009. So I think a big chunk of the people here might not be aware of the book. Was it on the English curriculum? Certainly didn’t see it on the English curriculum in Wales in between 98-04.
For me it was Of Mice and Men, The Invisible Man, Pygmalion, Danny Champion of the World, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
I don’t know this. We did, “my family and other animals.” Very relatable to a kid from Manchester in the late 80s
did it in primary school 😂
I had to watch and analyse Tsotsi in secondary school.
Lol, we still had slideshows and 8mm film projectors when I was at school.
Oh fuck… this brings back memories. Vague, and yet unpleasant, memories.
All I remember is a kid going “bloody bloody bloody” and then an adult is like YOU LITTLE **SHIT**
No, we had Stig of the Dump.
Wow I was thinking about this book a few days ago, I was remembering the man with wings. But couldn’t for the life of me recall what it was called, thanks.
“He stood erect” possibly the worst sentence to say to a class of year 8’s
The Chinese order has been forever burned into my mind. 27 & 53, 27 & 53, 27 & 53…
That DVD is from when Tim Roth was still doing decent films and TV shows. Therefore form a golden age of the past. Mind it could be coinciding with the start of the decline. Only his work with Tarantino has remained decent.
Anyone who disagrees come at me and defend his Sepp Blatter bomb.
Memories! I remember reading this at school.
I’m starting to think we were lucky when we got to watch Little Nicky in RE.
So, when the National Framework for Teaching English (or ‘the big blue binder’ to give it its official name) came in around 2000/2001-ish, Skellig was used as the example text in some of the Schemes of Work printed in there. Because redoing every Scheme in this scary new way looked like a ridiculous amount of work, loads of English Departments just bought Skellig and used the samples to give themselves a leg up on the new way of working. And because books are expensive they stick around for years being retaught, which is why so many of you were forced to read this at school.
On behalf of the very old English teachers here, I would like to apologise to you all. I hated this book. It’s three or four amazing chapters that the writer never really got a handle on what to do with afterwards, and it just never fulfils its promise.
Oh lord I remember this
Could’ve sworn that was super hans y’know
I read this in yr6 it wasn’t the best book I’d read but also definitely not the worst. (The worst I think is holes)
nope, our torture was Of Mice and Men, including the John Malkovich film
You’re lucky, all we got was Kes.