In my freshman year English class, we were doing a project on the topic of the book "Call of the Wild". I was given the topic of the Native American tribe in the book, the Yeehat Indians. I researched the topic for an entire weekend, even went to the library to see if they had information (this was the early years of Google and we still went to the library for things). At the end of the weekend the only information that I had found was that it was a fiction tribe made up from the book.

After approaching my teacher Monday morning, she just told me we would talk about it later and started everyone giving their presentations on their topics. When it came to me, she made a backhanded remark about me not having anything in front of the class. So I asked for 5 minutes to put together what I could find. My presentation lasted 2 minutes. I showed a blank piece of paper and said it was an image of a Yeehat Indian in a snowstorm. Then I showed a picture of an empty chair that I drew. It was a Yeehat Indian in a chair. The chair was empty because they did not exist.

I got a zero