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Post by fallenangel55 on Oct 11, 2003 20:31:35 GMT -5
phew...thanks god my classes are easier than all of that u just listed....but the only thing i hate is ENGLISH!!...lol..hey TF, i get that shit too...ur on the rite track but just think a little harder...grr..i hate teachers that play mind games!..>_< its annoying....geez..the only period thats fun and that u can fool around is drama....
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 12, 2003 11:47:48 GMT -5
I like English. The only homework we get is reading, and I like the books we read. 9th grade english totally sucked literature wise. Who else here read Jane Air (I know thats misspelled).
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Post by Ihsahn on Oct 12, 2003 12:12:31 GMT -5
I'm partial to English as well, except the study of poetry, which I've never liked. Aside from that, we've done/will be doing some pretty interesting stuff. We've done Hamlet and King Lear, and will be doing Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot, Death of a Salesman for modern plays, Oedipus Rex, Blood Wedding and The Wild Duck for world lit, and As I Lay Dying, Stone Angel, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold for novel study. Though I must say my favourite class is Philosophy, since it forces me to think outside the box, and the theories of some philosophers are very interesting... makes you wonder about things like your own existence . The only problem I have with this IB thing, is our exams are worth between 70% and 80% of our final grade.
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Post by Jaggy on Oct 12, 2003 14:09:19 GMT -5
I hate English. In fact, I hate it the most out of all my classes. The reading part I don't care about, but I HATE writing compositions and essays and other crap like that. Besides, all the books we have to read that are supposedly good aren't anyways. And to make it worse, I got a teacher this year who marks hard and apparently failed a lot of people. God am I ever unlucky to get him in gr 11.
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Post by rekawamo on Oct 12, 2003 15:43:41 GMT -5
I like English. I can insult the teacher in my essays and still get As on my papers. I don't even think the teacher notices. I have also blatently insulted our president on a creative writing assignment... I sure hope my teacher is a Democrat or I'm gonna get a "d" on the paper I just turned in.
I have to take a world religions class. The teacher is a psycho whose voice changes daily who insists her class is fun. I guess it's fun because people flick her off when she turns around to write on the white board. And people laugh when she says in her high, whiny voice, "There is a difference between being polite and rude, students." And then one of my classmates sitting in the back whispered, "No s___, sherlock" loud enough for most of us to hear but not the teacher. Man, that was funny.
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Post by scurvy sea dog on Oct 12, 2003 15:45:17 GMT -5
For the past three years, I have had the same English teacher where I could write crap and bullshit my way through essays as long as I can prove my opinions.
This year, however, I actually have to think, and there are rumors that in that class, your grade drops....LOW. I appreciate what my teacher is doing, though, because she went to Stanford and is only giving up tests like how Stanford gives them out. It prepares me for college, despite the tough curriculum. She's actually one of my favorite teachers cuz she's so relaxed and fun (and it doesn't hurt that she's a big Giants fan too lol).
I test better in essay tests too, which is weird. I'm just so good at proving my point and all that. I don't do as well in objective tests unless I know for sure what the answer is. Like, for math, I'm just guessing the answer the whole time so I do horribly.
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 12, 2003 16:12:18 GMT -5
It did awful on my first essay cause I forgot to put quotes from the poems in it , but from there I've been fine. I find it odd that some places require world religions.
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Post by Dark on Oct 12, 2003 16:36:38 GMT -5
[glow=ruby,2,300]English? What a waste of my time!!! We're in a continent which speaks english!! I used to be an Immigrant who spoke no english at one point and now Im receiving better marks than the ppl who were born here. IMO, that's just sad....[/glow]
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 12, 2003 17:13:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I read a report somewhere that said something like 60% of the students in my area have to go to summer school to make up a semester of highschool English. I haven't done great in recent years due to the emphasis on reading boring-ass books. This year looks more promising tho.
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Post by fallenangel55 on Oct 12, 2003 17:37:27 GMT -5
hehehe...thats a good point..maybe its the fact that ppl are blonde..im jk..anyways english for us is reading biographys and drawing venn diagrams.. ::)annoying but then again its better than any crap u guys r doing so far.....I'm so scared of facing the up coming years...(im a wussy)
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Post by TreasureFinder on Oct 12, 2003 19:36:40 GMT -5
Ugh, we have to pick up Les Miserable this Friday. The reason I don't like my English class is because when we analyze a story (to death I might add), she says stuff like, "The author uses an asyndeton here for what purpose?"......"Because he wanted to?"..."The author writes the story in first person why?" I replied, "So we can see what the character is thinking, and why." "No, but you're on the right track..." She calls on somebody else. "Because we will get scared with the character?" "Yes, exactly! *laugh like a horse*".........grrr........And we haven't even started poetry yet!
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Post by fallenangel55 on Oct 12, 2003 19:47:52 GMT -5
;D laugh like a horse...thats funny......do u like poetry TF?
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Post by scurvy sea dog on Oct 12, 2003 20:45:01 GMT -5
Les Mis is a good book. It's one of my favorite books that I've read so far for school.
I hate poetry so much. My teacher last year was always looking for some special meaning between the lines. I'm PRETTY SURE the poet just wrote everything without thinking about some deep meaning. And I'm pretty sure novels are the same way as well.
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Post by Tsukasa on Oct 12, 2003 21:47:02 GMT -5
I know... my english teacher is doing poetry right now... and she tries to find at least 15 different meanings between the lines... which the poet probably never meant. One of my classmates admits that he purposely says BS in the class, that sounds just barely smart enough to be counted as participation.
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Post by Dark on Oct 12, 2003 22:28:50 GMT -5
[glow=ruby,2,300]I pass the day by thoughts of home and games. If I didn't have those I'd probably not be in a good mood all the time, but definetly smarter. lol ;D[/glow]
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