Funny Sayings in American Pageant

Hmmm...I feel slightly jealous of all of you; the book our APUSH class used, The Enduring Vision, was an excellent textbook when it came to useful, pertinent information but was not nearly as amusing as this American Pageant book seems to be. I remember several times dozing off while trying to read it, but if it'd been anything like the one you all used, I think I might've stayed awake and actually read a lot more for APUSH. :)

However, my teacher, a wonderful Swedish lady with an inimitable accent and a PhD in American History, was more entertaining than anything else. She would often stop a lecture to ask the guys in my class questions about puberty and such (her son is about 13 and she's very anxious about it), and she'd tell the weirdest stories about former APUSH classes. Her doctoral thesis was, I believe, on birth control in the 1930s, and sex was a very openly discussed topic in our class (she never understood why the guys would giggle when she talked about breasts and breast-feeding). I'm really going to miss her class.

I apologize for the above -- this thread isn't about teachers. Anyways, I believe my APUSH teacher has a copy of the American Pageant textbook, and now I'm very intrigued and plan to look through it when I get back to school. :D

lol, American Pageant may be more amusing than some books, but I've fallen asleep reading it several times. You're class sounds like fun. We never really talked about that stuff, and when we did the teacher usually went to work on her comp and let us alone lol. But we did talk about college alot.

We did all kinds of random things in our class, from talking about the Star Wars v. Star Trek debate to kicking off a war with the AP Comp-Lit class dowstairs from us. But really, the book wasn't terribly interesting. There were the quotes, but they seemed to be randomly tossed in by the editor....

I like the one from chapter 3 about the Dutch New Netherlands (new york)
"The physical growth of New York was correspondingly retarded." (pg. 59)

This book is really boring and the only times it is not boring is when I read for a while and I happen to understand most of what it's saying, so I'm like, yes... I'm on a roll.

punchinfaces wrote:I like the one from chapter 3 about the Dutch New Netherlands (new york)
"The physical growth of New York was correspondingly retarded." (pg. 59)

I burst out laughing when I saw that in class. Everybody thought I was v. immature for a while, in addition to completely neurotic. :cool:

AnInvertedLove wrote:I burst out laughing when I saw that in class. Everybody thought I was v. immature for a while, in addition to completely neurotic. :cool:

haha thats awesome - I did the same thing, except I was at home reading

I had no idea American Pageant was so funny. Perhaps I should have read it instead of looking at course-notes the whole year.

Some of their writing is funny, but that book is just really boring.

My teacher's 7th period class has The Enduring Vision and he tells us it is alot better than the American Pageant. I trust him too because he absolutely loves history and he wants his students to get high scores (I would too if I got $100 per every passing student). We are supposed to get the books next week.

Hopefully it'll be better than The American Pageant.

Book is full of cliches