previous english classes

My last English class was very interesting. Our grades consisted of only two types;vocabulary and papers. Our vocab tests were on every Friday. All the students loved the vocab tests simply because the majority of the class cheated. Now me being the great student I was, I never cheated.If you could not tell I was being sarcastic in that last sentence. Students always expected to ace the vocab tests and for the most part they did. Now the papers were a different story. At the beginning of the week our teacher would give us a handout of a poem, or two, of her choice. We would analyze the poems during the week and our paper would usually be due that following Monday or Tuesday. Now the strange thing is, we would go over the poem line by line with our teacher so each student knew what they were doing. But come the day when she had them graded, everyone failed. Her reasoning behind this was because we were doing it all wrong, yet she was the one giving us the information during the week before. Never the less I made an "A" in the class, but i will never miss that English teacher.