I'll do 3000 words!
Heh.. back in high school, I took an English class were the teacher put out weekly point tallies. In other words, out of X many possible points that semester, you had earned Y and thus your grade would be a(n) A/B/C..etc. However, once per semester, he allowed the chance to earn extra credit by doing a book report. It had to be a minimum five pages for however much credit (I think about half a letter grade) with an additional so many points per extra page.
These weren't normal book reports. The instructor had some system you had to follow. One of the bits was that you had to describe each main character physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually. So, anyway, I was somewhere in "F" territory for the semester due to amazing laziness and decided I'd better do my report. I sort of cheated and and called the entire Dragonlance Chronicals trilogy a "book" and went to work. After doing the above review bit for each of the characters, plus the usual bit about the plot, climax, etc I wound up with about sixty-five handwritten pages. I finished off the semester with something like 11000 points out of 9000 possible assigned points. I'm not sure if being able to pull from an F to an A like that is "good", but I'll give the teacher credit for keeping with the point agreement.
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.