Exams are done

[Ghoul]

And that is correct, Otis, but from what Ghoul has said, it seems his teacher is going a little overboard.

Yes. I agree with Otis' statement, but into the 2 week point, the lessons were pure history facts.

[Ad Bot]

[Pimpin]

AP exams the week after next!

AP calculus BC - easy as stuff and i will bitchsmack the exam
AP psychology - what will this even be on wtf? phobias and other mental illnesses? that's like all we covered in a whole year haha
AP english - i'm unnaturally good at english so i'm feelin' good about this
AP chemistry - kind of scaring me. the exams are hard as stuff.
AP french - lol this is gonna blow so hard. we just BS'd everyday and did nothing. and i suck at french. je suis forgeted.

[Rughugger]

lol And that's why I don't miss school.

[Muffinmix]

To understand literature you must understand the period in which it was written. Knowing the cultural and political climate at the time it was made is vital to your ability to brown townyze a text. It is foolish to believe history and literature can or should be separated.

This is true. But the way his course is going isn't doing a very good job teaching students how to brown townyze and interpret literature, otherwise it would go through allot of different "genres" of literature from a wide range of time periods to expose the students to a little bit of everything and help them develop a better sense of interpretation beyond the text. Instead it is really a study of the holocaust and has little to do with comprehension other then taking facts out of the text to put them on a sheet of paper later. It started off borderline phylosophy and ended up as the history of the holocaust.

AP chemistry - kind of scaring me. the exams are hard as stuff.
AP french - lol this is gonna blow so hard. we just BS'd everyday and did nothing. and i suck at french. je suis forgeted.

Chemistry you say?? French you say??

Atleast you're going to get all the others down easy. I'm surprised you're good at both calculus and english, usually everyone I've known have only been adept at one or the other oddly enough.

lol And that's why I don't miss school.

Yeah stay in school kids.

[Rughugger]

I'm old enough to have graduated twice over and technically had enough credits to do so. How you ask? PSEO and their technicality that my earned college credits couldn't transfer, so it all went to my HS graduation. I could have skipped my entire senior year and still graduated. But I didn't and got to go skinny dipping instead on Senior Skip day!:D

[Otis Da HousKat]

Hmmm, I don't believe I was defending the teacher's boring and repetitive lessons so much as addressing Ghoul's disgust with mixing history and literature.

Atleast you're going to get all the others down easy. I'm surprised you're good at both calculus and english, usually everyone I've known have only been adept at one or the other oddly enough.

I've always had As (and a B+ once) in math and literature classes. Classes dealing with soft and social sciences are a breeze for me, while hard science and engineering class present a sizable challenge to my intellect. I thoroughly enjoy both.

[Muffinmix]

Hmmm, I don't believe I was defending the teacher's boring and repetitive lessons so much as addressing Ghoul's disgust with mixing history and literature.

Oh yeah, sorry about that. That kind of came off as an attack didn't it, I apologize.

I've always had As (and a B+ once) in math and literature classes. Classes dealing with soft and social sciences are a breeze for me, while hard science and engineering class present a sizable challenge to my intellect. I thoroughly enjoy both.

I always love the challenge in many of the courses I take as well. I don't have the greatest GPA in the world but I just love the difficult problem-solving aspect too much to really care about silly fluctuating grades.

[Jaxx]

I feel for you all, I'm not going to get exams in high school. Yes, it is true.

[zoneark]

I worked hard to try to push my GPA up, not down! What the forget happened.

Thats what happens when you hang out with people on blockland.

[General Nick]

-snip teacher not doing her job-

My English teacher has done the exact same thing.
We've probably done more about African American culture, slavery and their history more than regular English.

First semester wasn't so bad. We got to choose what we read and I ended up reading a book about basketball and conspiracies, Last Shot. Cool and all, did a movie for a project but ended up sucking because the girl in our group thought she could edit.

Right before winter break we started reading Frederick Douglass. Our teacher suddenly turned so pro-black culture right after Obama's election. Oh, our teacher is black too.

We started doing like 24/7 projects relating to African American history, which WOULD'VE been done in our history class, particularly along the Civil War, which was, oh I don't know, February?

In our English class, we do these projects twice a year, once in November/December and another in February/March, called Current Events. We research a debatable topic and present it to the class. My friend chose to do the recent Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon scandal concerning her using gift cards to buy her own Christmas presents when those cards were meant for needy families. He presented it, and another teacher was present just to watch. So our teacher then goes on about how Sheila Dixon lowered the crime rate in Baltimore. It went out like this;

English teacher: Well she still lowered the crime rate.
Other teacher: But she still used those gift cards for needy families.
English teacher: Well yeah but she still lowered the crime rate.

Notice how my English teacher just goes ahead and defends the Mayor rapidly.

[Ghoul]

Current Events

I hate those. We have them every other Friday in Civics.

Hey, on the topic of stupid teachers, I'll add my OTHER stupid teacher;

Mr. Westfall is an over-enthusiastic, 50 year old Civics teacher at our school.

This semester, Mr. Westfall decided to teach Arizona History. (I live in Arizona)

You see, Mr. Westfall is very obsessed with America in general, but particularly interested in Arizona History. He has about 5 different maps of Arizona, featuring city locations, geographical 3D, and colored sea-level maps.

First, he decides that he should pass out about 7 pages about Arizona Government. After that, he passes out about 5 pages of info about the Indian tribes in the state, their reservations, stuff like that. Mr. Westfall LOVES Indians. This totals up to 12 pages per student. He teaches 50 students. This totals up to 600 sheets of paper.

Though he used a small tree's worth of paper, this isn't the worst of it. We go on into the semester. He spoon feeds us all of this info about Indians via lectures.

The thing about Mr. Westfall is, he absolutely loves to hear himself talk. Because of this, he ends up lecturing for all of his lessons. He lectures so damn loud, that you can hear him screaming at the other class through the foot-thick wall full of hay in the classroom opposite to his.

Actually, for this whole semester, the only work we did was the occasional homework assignment (in the form of projects) and a quiz about 3 times a week. The rest of the lesson was Mr. Westfall, blabbering on with lectures. While in the math room, opposite to his, you can hear "...ARIZONA... ...TUCSON... ...PRESCOTT... ...ANASAZI... ...HOHOKAM... ...PHOENIX..." throughout the entire class.

Ok, let's get to the point. Mr. Wetfall is a bad teacher when it comes to his projects. For the last month, there have been 3 assigned projects.

The first one consisted of the student picking a specific person in Arizona History. No two students can have the same person. The 200 word essay consisted of you, the student, doing something with that person. There's no need to base it off of anything that really have happened. Just make it up!

The second essay consisted of you, the student, witnessing an event in a specific year and culture. It could be an Indian tribe, anything. No need to base it off something that really happened in that time. Just make it up!

The third essay (not finished yet) will consist of someone 250 years in the future reading an Arizona History book that contains a chapter about you, the student, and what you're remembered for. No need to base it off of anything you'll really do. Just make it up!


You see the pattern here. These projects don't have anything to do with actual facts of History. Anything in the project can be made up, as long as it's based on a person, place, or time in history.

I'm in 8th grade. These are projects for 10- no- 8 year olds!

TL;DR: My Civics teacher is also an idiot.

[UnDiViDeD]

I can't wait for my exams.

Physics - Should be ok, did fairly well on the prelims.

Calc 2 - Going to suck.  He gives us problems that always suck compared to the homework.

Public Speaking - As if this could be hard.  It's all multiple choice.

Programming - This really should be easy, but it won't be.  The professor is horrible.

[yuki]

History is much more interesting then English for me, I like to know things like why Riddler was a psycho and why he had a special interest for Blond hair blue eyes. I think English is one of the most failed subjects seeing as how millions of people fail at grammar let alone spelling.

I fail English because we read the stufftiest books of all time. "Catcher in the Rye", "The Great Gatsby", "A Separate Peace". They were all virtually crap. I can't remember who said it, but it went something like: "Reading fiction that could happen is a waste of time. Writing fiction that could happen is wasting a mind" or something along those lines. The best book I read in that class was H.P. Lovecraft, on my own accord. He's a better writer than John Knowles, J. D. Salinger, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Swholli]

Wanna know something stuffty?

We're in high school and have to take a graduation test, OGT (Ohio Graduation Test), right? So we take this thing, and if we score at least average on all of the parts (i.e math, science, social studies, etc.) then we're exempt from exams. Don't have to take them. Knowing myself, there's no way I could have failed those things, so now I don't have to take them this semester. Aren't I a lucky richard?

Though there is still the AP US History exam. But that's for college credit, not high school.

[Mr_Grinch14]

Aww hell, i graduate in about... 3 weeks.

I'm excited for College, but it sounds like parts of it kinda suck.