High School

CallmeDan
Because it just makes me feel stupid and further drives my self confidence down.
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It depends on the classes you take. Art and Seminar are good classes for me, but English 3 is one subject I dunno how I'm making a high A in there and Algebra 3... worst class for me since I make stupid errors.

I'll hate myself next semester though.... really hate myself.
 
Two weeks at the college now and compared to high school, college gives you a hell of a lot more freedom. No longer do I have to stand horrid school lunches

Ironically, my hardest class is English III because, since it's at a college, it goes really fast. Otherwise, Int. Algebra, Public Speaking, and Health Science are all really easy.
 
Aki Ishikawa
It depends on the classes you take. Art and Seminar are good classes for me, but English 3 is one subject I dunno how I'm making a high A in there and Algebra 3... worst class for me since I make stupid errors.

I'll hate myself next semester though.... really hate myself.
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I have a creative writing class with one of my favorite teachers at the end of the day. The problem is, I'm not creative in the slightest bit and I walk out of the class feeling worse than I did walking in. As I said before, she's one of my favorite teachers and she does a great job. I'm just a lousy student.
 
Underclassman :(

School is so much fun. :banghead:

4 days in and I'm complaining.

I hate the Geometry class, not used to having Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and I think maybe a Senior all in a class.
 
I started freshman year of high school about three weeks ago. It's certainly... different than what I'm used to. I like being treated (somewhat) like an adult. I know I can take care of my own responsibilities without a teacher breathing down my neck. While I have the schooling part down, I still fail at the social aspect, just like the past 15 years of my life. It'll be three weeks of school tomorrow, and I don't have a friend, or a person to kind of cling to when I don't know what to do. I have an acquaintance, and that's really it. It's just that I get pretty lonely in such a big place.
Anyways, does anyone have some tips for the school year? So far, it's been pretty easy, but things are getting harder at a substantial rate, and I should be prepared.
 
QuikSlvr223
I started freshman year of high school about three weeks ago. It's certainly... different than what I'm used to. I like being treated (somewhat) like an adult. I know I can take care of my own responsibilities without a teacher breathing down my neck. While I have the schooling part down, I still fail at the social aspect, just like the past 15 years of my life. It'll be three weeks of school tomorrow, and I don't have a friend, or a person to kind of cling to when I don't know what to do. I have an acquaintance, and that's really it. It's just that I get pretty lonely in such a big place.
Anyways, does anyone have some tips for the school year? So far, it's been pretty easy, but things are getting harder at a substantial rate, and I should be prepared.
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Well, talking to classmates and others is a good start. No point of behaving like an loner for 4 years, so why not make some friends? Just don't act all big and tough to the older ones.
 
I had a lot of classes with upperclassmen when I was a Freshmen and vice-versa as a Senior. Even I, a shy person and a loner, could make friends in high school. One way I made friends was by group projects in classes, but most of my friends were made due to band.
 
QuikSlvr223
Anyways, does anyone have some tips for the school year?
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Time management is key. You need to know what assignments are due, and when. You need to be absolutely prepared - "my printer jammed" is no excuse.

When you submit an assignment, I will do my best to get it back to you as soon as possible. But right now, I have two senior economics classes who have just come out of exams, and they take priority. If you try and pressure me into giving back your assignment early, it's not going to end well.

When you get your marks back, the first question you should ask yourself is "what did I do wrong, and how can I do better next time?". If you wish to contest your mark, I will hear any reasonable argument you make. But if your first question is "how did sir **** up my marks?", we're going to have a problem.

When it comes to homework, all I ask is that you make a reasonable attempt. If you can do the work, that's great. But if you can't, that tells me just as much about you - and in many ways, it's more useful than what you can do, because it gives me something I can work with. I fully encourage parental involvement in homework as well - my dad helped me out with a lot of maths.
 
Well aced my first Earth science quiz and can't wait for my 2nd semester due to the fact I have study hall after study hall (thanks you senior privileges!), it does stink that I had to drop my Web Design 2 class due to the lack of a teacher. Don't like the hallways much, being in a huge crowd and being short doesn't work for me, it was funny when a group of freshmen came up and asked me if I was a freshmen lol, they didn't believe that I was a senior till I showed them my school ID.
 
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iMikeTheKing
Senior year is going to be amazing since I actually enjoy every class that I'm taking. The only weird thing about this year is that my psych teacher is facebook my friends with my whole family.
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You better not act a mickey in class then. Your family will know right after you leave school.
 
We had our student body meeting about Homecoming week (which is next week). While waiting my brother and I decided to keep the students (somewhat) entertained, I considered it some practice for my schools talent show. But, what I got from the assembly was that next week is going to be hectic.
 
*Double posting I know but;

School sit rep:
English 3 is boring and I have a vocabulary test tomorrow.
Algebra 3 is the subject I'm just getting by with with our first test tomorrow. I'm probably gonna fail hard.
Art 2... well, just look at this
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What you see is the progress that's taken me majority of this week and a little bit of last week to get this fair so that shows how good I am with managing time...
And Seminar/Pub Speaking/Events is fine. We've watched a documentation related movie/video called 102 Minutes That Changed America yesterday, today, and finishing the timeline tomorrow. Watching it versus watching a documentary is more eye opening... to anyone who was younger than 8 probably won't remember it would only know that it was a tragic event that happened, but to see the people's reaction is just... *sigh*

Thanks for bothering to read this post
~Akira
 
Aki Ishikawa
English 3 is boring and I have a vocabulary test tomorrow.
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Vocab test? In your year group? I know I'm teaching a different curriculum to you, but by the time my students are at your level, we would have left vocab tests behind years ago (unless you're ESL or low literacy). You should be looking at the thematic and interpretive aspects of English.
 
prisonermonkeys
Vocab test? In your year group? I know I'm teaching a different curriculum to you, but by the time my students are at your level, we would have left vocab tests behind years ago (unless you're ESL or low literacy). You should be looking at the thematic and interpretive aspects of English.
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Welcome to South Carolina...
We're also doing old American literature and grammar, but the vocabulary- from what I'm told- can help a lot with taking the SAT, helping your chances of scoring high. We're doing the same format of learning those vocabulary words that we did in 10th grade.
But I'm guessing it's because of the (stupidly) different curriculums that vary from state to state.
 
Aki Ishikawa
But I'm guessing it's because of the (stupidly) different curriculums that vary from state to state.
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Or nation to nation - I'm Australian.

I would expect my students to have a decent vocabulary. The only expansion that we would do is in putting names to techniques that composers use which are new to the class.

I don't know much about the SAT, but what I do know is that comprehension is a pretty simple skill. You should be aiming for synthesis - reading or viewing multiple texts and identifying some common idea or theme between them (it's okay if you're the only one who sees it - we're interested in what you know about a text, and how you know it). You're taking ideas from separate sources and combining them to make something new.

When responding to a question, remember to STEEL your paragraphs: start by making a STATEMENT about the text, then name a TECHNIQUE the composer uses. Provide an EXAMPLE of that technique in use, then describe the EFFECT that it has on the audience. Finally, LINK this back to your statement.
 
That awkward moment when your new math teacher's birthday is on the same day as yours and he moved onto your street lol. That almost summarizes my day, but we got some rather worrying news, since I haven't gotten my spot yet (I don't know why) so I park up at a local store that allows students to park there and today some kids pretty much ruined it for us by doing burnouts and peeling out, I had to walk to said store and drive my car to the auto shop just so I could go home.

This made me very annoyed and if these people decide to continue people will not be able to park there, my fingers are crossed to get my spot soon (I"m like number five on a list of 200+ kids).
 
prisonermonkeys
Or nation to nation - I'm Australian.

I would expect my students to have a decent vocabulary. The only expansion that we would do is in putting names to techniques that composers use which are new to the class.

I don't know much about the SAT, but what I do know is that comprehension is a pretty simple skill. You should be aiming for synthesis - reading or viewing multiple texts and identifying some common idea or theme between them (it's okay if you're the only one who sees it - we're interested in what you know about a text, and how you know it). You're taking ideas from separate sources and combining them to make something new.

When responding to a question, remember to STEEL your paragraphs: start by making a STATEMENT about the text, then name a TECHNIQUE the composer uses. Provide an EXAMPLE of that technique in use, then describe the EFFECT that it has on the audience. Finally, LINK this back to your statement.
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The first thing that came to mind when seeing the word 'composer' was a musical composer. It took me a second to think that you might be speaking about a writer composer. That's a bit bad and sort of shows the SC education system... or at least at my little school of 500+ people.

Well, I've taken the PSAT, the practice version of the SAT, and the vocabulary practice helped a bit. Some of the words used in it was complete alien language to me because majority of the words were words that was never talked about or learned about in all my years of being in school. Comprehension is certainly not one of my strong points. I'm more of a art drawer and a dreamer rather than an intellectual person.

I will try to remember that helpful tip when responding to a question, but both the students and the teacher tend to be lazy when responding to questions so it will most likely be forgotten along with all of the other education that goes down the drain as soon as you leave the school.
Astroboy2215
That awkward moment when your new math teacher's birthday is on the same day as yours and he moved onto your street lol. That almost summarizes my day, but we got some rather worrying news, since I haven't gotten my spot yet (I don't know why) so I park up at a local store that allows students to park there and today some kids pretty much ruined it for us by doing burnouts and peeling out, I had to walk to said store and drive my car to the auto shop just so I could go home.

This made me very annoyed and if these people decide to continue people will not be able to park there, my fingers are crossed to get my spot soon (I"m like number five on a list of 200+ kids).
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Tough luck mate. There's always that one person who ruins it for everybody.
 
Aki Ishikawa
The first thing that came to mind when seeing the word 'composer' was a musical composer. It took me a second to think that you might be speaking about a writer composer. That's a bit bad and sort of shows the SC education system... or at least at my little school of 500+ people.

Well, I've taken the PSAT, the practice version of the SAT, and the vocabulary practice helped a bit. Some of the words used in it was complete alien language to me because majority of the words were words that was never talked about or learned about in all my years of being in school. Comprehension is certainly not one of my strong points. I'm more of a art drawer and a dreamer rather than an intellectual person.

I will try to remember that helpful tip when responding to a question, but both the students and the teacher tend to be lazy when responding to questions so it will most likely be forgotten along with all of the other education that goes down the drain as soon as you leave the school.
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I say "composer", because we don't just look at novels. Our curriculum covers just about every text type imaginable - from novels and short stories through to poems and songs, plays, still images, speeches, films and so on and so forth. We don't just look at structure and composition, but thematic aspects. I just finished "Othello" with my Year 11 Advanced English class (about the level your age group is at), and we debated whether the play is about racism or simply racist, about sexism or simply sexist, and how this meaning may have changed over time as society has developed. And we do that because modern teaching theory acknowledges that there are people like you who have different learning styles. I wouldn't just dump notes and pure theory on you, because I know it won't work. I'd probably go for visual and spatial representations for a start.
 
prisonermonkeys
I say "composer", because we don't just look at novels. Our curriculum covers just about every text type imaginable - from novels and short stories through to poems and songs, plays, still images, speeches, films and so on and so forth. We don't just look at structure and composition, but thematic aspects. I just finished "Othello" with my Year 11 Advanced English class (about the level your age group is at), and we debated whether the play is about racism or simply racist, about sexism or simply sexist, and how this meaning may have changed over time as society has developed. And we do that because modern teaching theory acknowledges that there are people like you who have different learning styles. I wouldn't just dump notes and pure theory on you, because I know it won't work. I'd probably go for visual and spatial representations for a start.
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We barely just touch on some of the texts you mentioned. If anything, it's something that we are forced to read because of standards and this is coming from Year 9 and 10. All I'm doing is just getting by each year and I know for sure that I'm not getting any smarter because all we're doing is getting by by doing what we're told and answer measly questions. Oh and FFS I dislike taking notes and dealing with theories especially when the teacher says their own and expects you to agree with them.
 
Eks
Pretty much sums up my science class. I know the feels.
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My biology class last year was notorious for this. Five days in a week, we'd take notes all of those days. The only breaks we got were for tests, and some test days we'd even start with new notes if we had time after everyone was done with the test.
 
Johnny1996
My biology class last year was notorious for this. Five days in a week, we'd take notes all of those days. The only breaks we got were for tests, and some test days we'd even start with new notes if we had time after everyone was done with the test.
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And where do those notes go? Into the trash after school is finished. That's the thing about school- you'll learn this and that and when it comes to summertime or any extended vacation and boom, you forget EVERYTHING. Very little information sticks at all and I question if it ever will be put to use after you graduate (and don't go to college).
 

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