![]() There is a big difference between giving this book 1 star and giving that other Robin Hood book I read recently –The Youngest Templar – 1 star. ![]() My point is all books I give a single star to are not the same. The other girl has had all A’s that semester and rushes out of the classroom to go cry in the bathroom after reading the teacher’s cutting remark about her “resting on her laurels” underneath the big glaring red C. The girl who has had F’s and D’s all semester and poured a lot of work into this essay is all smiles and happy and the teacher even writes a compliment on her essay about her improvement. ![]() So you know how a teacher – especially English teachers – can use the same grade as both a punishment and a reward? Example- you’ve got two students in an 11th grade English class, both having just written essays on the fatal flaws of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, and both get C’s. ![]() because there were NO POTATOES OUTSIDE OF SOUTH AMERICA UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY!!!! Robin Hood characters and potatoes never, ever met! There were no French fries, no crisps, no chips, no mashed potatoes, no sweet potatoes, no baked potatoes, and if you needed somewhere to hide when there was an attack on the castle going on, there would certainly not have been a bag of them in your root cellar for your mother to try and stuff you in. There were NO POTATOES in 12th century England! Got that? THERE WERE NO POTATOES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE! None. ![]() First, there is something I have to get off my chest that really bugged me: ![]()
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