'Conviction (1)'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think it would be interesting (although more in the movies thread) to compare and contract Mean Girls and Heathers as sort of the quintessential high achool experience.
Which, I think Plei is right, really translates onto middle school more than High School now that I think about it.
I am glad to hear Emmett liked The Outsiders, as it was one of my favorites.
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
When I was in middle school, the movie that I thought best summed up the experience was Welcome to the Dollhouse. I'm not sure I'd say the same thing now, but at the time, that was the movie that felt the most like what I thought middle school felt like.
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Breakfast Club.
I'm also class of '85.
I was class of '88 and I see Heathers and Breakfast Club as decent representations. I was friends with people across cliques, but wasn't really in a clique myself. So, not nerdly but also not super cool.
Catcher in the Rye made me think of King Dork again. Loved that book!
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
What I meant was, maybe I didn't notice. What with the being stoned. But that was largely facetious.
There was a *lot* of crossover in my school, between dating and academics. Stoners who were on the paper, jocks who were mathletes, etc. I'm sure, as in any school, there were kids who felt left out and otherwise *outsider* but I am serious when I say, there wasn't any outright cruelty, and it was a fairly small school, so it would have been hard to miss. Which, essentially, just made high school a nice experience for *me*.
We had cliques at my high school, but no malice that I can recall. It was a small enough school that there was heavy overlap between the different sets and more than a few guys who agonized over being on the football team vs. being in the school musical.
Phineas, though? Didn't get tossed off the branch soon enough.
My sister!
My high school experience captured on film: Dazed and Confused, River's Edge, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
I also honestly don't remember anything I read in seventh grade other than The House of Stairs. Which I think was an optional thing. Eighth grade English, I sort of remember my teacher but nothing else. Wow. I wasn't even doing drugs then.
Ninth grade I know we read Romeo and Juliet, The Red Badge of Courage, Heart of Darkness, and some short stories. I'm sure there was more, though.
I was class of '88 and I see Heathers and Breakfast Club as decent representations.
Class of '89, and these are DEAD ON.