Coming Soon to an English Class Near You

After rereading my last post, I'd say that I sound a little whiny and disgruntled.  The exhaustion school imposes and the impending return of it just doesn't get me very excited, because tomorrow is going to be a horribly rude awakening back into reality from this two week long dream.  But nonetheless, I still will have to complete the consistent homework assignments, no matter how much I resent them.  So when I checked in my English binder for next week's schedule and saw "Shutter Island" typed in Monday - Wednesday, my jubilation was immeasurable.  At this point, I know we will have work to do, so I won't even mind if we have to take notes.  It's because movies have this wonderful quality of simply feeding us visual and auditory information that our brains interpret with ease.  No endless pages of words, packets of numbers and symbols, textbooks of terminology and diagrams.  Just images and sounds from the world around us, captured in an artful, entertaining, and potentially educational manner.  But I'm not going to be naive...  You see, I'm trying to accept that school is going to happen tomorrow right now, rather than accept it in the middle of Calculus first period, or maybe never and fail every class I'm in.  So when I say I won't care if we have to take notes and prepare for a discussion, I mean it, because we all know Ms. Serensky has to have a trick up her sleeve.  The relaxing and care free attitude during "The Namesake" has a mere fraction of a possibility of recurrence, so we all might as well accept tomorrows fate now.  Just appreciate the fact that we get to see a (from what I hear) excellent film in class tomorrow.