Just for the record, I'd badge this comment if you didn't make it abundantly clear how you feel about getting those. I was that asking student until I got tired with being branded as a tasteless contrarian during every fucking humanities elective I had to take, level of education be damned. My life changed for the better the moment I learned that courses like 'criminology for non-law majors' can count as 'humanities elective'.
By fourth grade I routinely wrote my assignments in the form of parody. I would stick to the absolute letter of the law as far as the assignment was concerned while also stretching everything to its most ridiculous extreme. I got thrown out of a class a year - permanently - for about six years. I have yet to meet an English or Art teacher who is willing to discuss any assertion beyond "because I said so."
Good one. I went for a lazy solution, where after discovering that all Polish Lit teachers have massive hots for Adam Mickiewicz's works (mostly overrated, Pan Tadeusz is the only good thing from him we have in syllabus/canon), I'd take his collected works, pick a poem at random, use it as an opening and make as many connections to it as it was humanly possible. Double points if I managed to draw a parallel with said Pan Tadeusz, which usually meant I could expect a solid B even if my entire argument was about as sound as Soviet engineering. True => "Because I said so" can time out Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha, so it's probably too sophisticated for all but chosen few.I have yet to meet an English or Art teacher who is willing to discuss any assertion beyond "because I said so."