Alright, confession time. Have you ever used Cliffnotes for school?

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Have you ever used CliffNotes to help with novels in school?

I have. I used it for Julius Caesar and for The Lord of the Flies. My reasoning (ahem excuses ;) ) were that 1) I don't understand Old English at all! (I firmly believe Old English is another language in itself) and 2) I simply didn't have the time to read TLOTF. Flame me, call me a cheat, whatevz. I wasn't in school, still on homebound, and school was almost over.
 
I used it in the 7th grade for the hobbit.
I could not keep up with that book.
I think I gave up after chpater 5 or 6.

I used cliffnotes for wuthering heights too, I read the book..but I could not understand half of it, haha.
 
All the time (though the last time I did was for this past summer's reading).

My English teacher tells us that he has no objection to supplementary material.

Now, the only book that I stopped reading and just used SparkNotes on was Wuthering Heights. That book killed me.
 
I didn't use cliffnotes but I used sparknotes and thats pretty much how I got through high school english (cause like we have nothing better to do than read a gazillion novels on top of everything else)
 
i haven't but i did use sparknotes for some of my other subjects. they have great study notes.
 
Nope. Never.

I'm a fast reader, so I usually finish a book before the rest of my class.
 
I've used sparknotes to help me write poems about characters and for a few parts in character analysis.

Or reading Romeo and Juliet in modern terms.
 
no.

though i probably should have for huck fin. i just flat out didn't read that one. i made a 70 on the test by guessing, so thats good enough i suppose. i made a 100 that marking period anyway. so its whatever.
 
Sparknotes.

But only for Julius Ceaser in Old English (I had the normal english translation) and when I forgot about reading A Tale of Two Cities
 
Yup, but I love to read and I am in college to be an English teacher
So I try not to.
 
I have used Sparknotes too its not that I dont like to read or anything but when you have to read three novels at one time somethings got to give.
 
Sparknotes for "The Once and Future King" and "Great Expectations".

Cliffnotes for "The Cruciable".
 
In High School, I would read the first chapter and if I liked the book I'd just finish it that night. If I didn't like it, I could never convince myself to read it, so I just sparknoted it usually.

Wuthering Heights? Really? I didn't have a problem reading it.
 
I'll probably be using it for Julius Caeser this semester. Last semester we did R+J, pretty easy to understand.
The problem this semester is I have a different teacher who doesn't believe in reading it out loud (it's a play, it should be read IMHO), so my understanding maybe be jumbled a bit, so I'll be relying heavily on any extra material I can get.
 
I've used it to study and when I can only find the time to finish half of the assigned reading before it's due. I usually go back and read the parts I sparknoted though, because it leaves things out.
 
In High School, I would read the first chapter and if I liked the book I'd just finish it that night. If I didn't like it, I could never convince myself to read it, so I just sparknoted it usually.

Wuthering Heights? Really? I didn't have a problem reading it.

Really.
That's a rather small book.
I haven't attempted to read it, but I'm sure I could get through it just find, based on the sheer size alone xD
 





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