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commotiocordisRe: my classes.
Remember AP hell week?
This is going to be IB hell year.
I decided on the first day that the chem thing was going to have to just stay the way it was, because I had a much more pressing matter, being that my english teacher is a pretentious bitch with an attitude. Turns out, however, that it didn't matter, as nobody else teaches chem 2. They won't let me switch out of the english without a really good reason and appealing to the principal, and I don't have time for that much work with all the crap she's making us do. Utter crap. And then she wastes our time in class by making us read everything out loud.
Plus the instructions for summer reading were vague, and many students didn't read one of the books because it seemed to say that it was optional to read during the summer as we weren't doing it until after christmas. English teacher goes 'tough shit, the directions weren't vague to me' and we have a test on it on Monday. It doesn't matter if the directions weren't vague to her if half the class hasn't read it! Plus tests on the other two books (one of which I finished on the treadmill today, the other of which I haven't started) today through the end of the week.
Not to mention that there are several students that I'm really wondering if should (read: have decided that they shouldn't) be in the class. On the first day, while reading aloud, one girl took 4 tries to get analysis right, and when we got to the word 'genre', went "gen-ree? What's that?" even though we've talked about it in every other english class I've ever taken.
Too many people are taking honors classes now. Biology has 28 kids. English is the same. It's crazy. What happened to the whole smaller class size thing?
I'm sort of regretting taking Theatre Arts, as it's much more theory and methods and history, when I think I was sort of hoping that it would be close to the other theatre/acting classes that I took with the teacher that had that stuff, but a lot of just acting too. And the requirements for the IB thing on that call for a lot of out of class work; for this dramaturgy thing you've got to do, they strongly suggest primary sources for lots of stuff, which means you've got to interview people and that takes a lot of time. Plus I have no idea what to do, as you've got to make up the problem you're going to dramaturge away.
Big old long research paper for History of the Americas too. At least with that, I can pick something like 'events that shaped the evolution of medicine in north american society' (though that's really broad) and get something I know a little about in there.
Anyway. I've got to construct a chemistry lab with the horrible instructions that my teacher has become known for (and is the major reason I didn't want to have her again this year) and research for a presentation on tragedies (again, crazy broad topic and I don't know what to say), Stella Adler, and ancient Greek theatre. Oh, and fuck. The other stuff isn't due for a few days, but I forgot about the english 'close reading journal' thing. Which the instructions for talked about theme and stuff that there is no way to apply to the non-fiction biography that she's making us do the first entry on.
*gets to work*
Remember AP hell week?
This is going to be IB hell year.
I decided on the first day that the chem thing was going to have to just stay the way it was, because I had a much more pressing matter, being that my english teacher is a pretentious bitch with an attitude. Turns out, however, that it didn't matter, as nobody else teaches chem 2. They won't let me switch out of the english without a really good reason and appealing to the principal, and I don't have time for that much work with all the crap she's making us do. Utter crap. And then she wastes our time in class by making us read everything out loud.
Plus the instructions for summer reading were vague, and many students didn't read one of the books because it seemed to say that it was optional to read during the summer as we weren't doing it until after christmas. English teacher goes 'tough shit, the directions weren't vague to me' and we have a test on it on Monday. It doesn't matter if the directions weren't vague to her if half the class hasn't read it! Plus tests on the other two books (one of which I finished on the treadmill today, the other of which I haven't started) today through the end of the week.
Not to mention that there are several students that I'm really wondering if should (read: have decided that they shouldn't) be in the class. On the first day, while reading aloud, one girl took 4 tries to get analysis right, and when we got to the word 'genre', went "gen-ree? What's that?" even though we've talked about it in every other english class I've ever taken.
Too many people are taking honors classes now. Biology has 28 kids. English is the same. It's crazy. What happened to the whole smaller class size thing?
I'm sort of regretting taking Theatre Arts, as it's much more theory and methods and history, when I think I was sort of hoping that it would be close to the other theatre/acting classes that I took with the teacher that had that stuff, but a lot of just acting too. And the requirements for the IB thing on that call for a lot of out of class work; for this dramaturgy thing you've got to do, they strongly suggest primary sources for lots of stuff, which means you've got to interview people and that takes a lot of time. Plus I have no idea what to do, as you've got to make up the problem you're going to dramaturge away.
Big old long research paper for History of the Americas too. At least with that, I can pick something like 'events that shaped the evolution of medicine in north american society' (though that's really broad) and get something I know a little about in there.
Anyway. I've got to construct a chemistry lab with the horrible instructions that my teacher has become known for (and is the major reason I didn't want to have her again this year) and research for a presentation on tragedies (again, crazy broad topic and I don't know what to say), Stella Adler, and ancient Greek theatre. Oh, and fuck. The other stuff isn't due for a few days, but I forgot about the english 'close reading journal' thing. Which the instructions for talked about theme and stuff that there is no way to apply to the non-fiction biography that she's making us do the first entry on.
*gets to work*
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Date: 2006-08-28 01:15 pm (UTC)<3