Passing Stronger Many high schools believe that their hardest year will be their senior year. Sometimes this is not true, in fact some believe that their hardest year will be their junior year since that is the year of the major tests such as the American College Test. Anyway, those that do believe that the senior year of high school is the hardest, say that their hardest class that they attend is their language arts class, also known as English. The four year of English is thought to be really hard, and that is somewhat true for the seniors of Worland High. At Worland High School, we have Doctor Tim McGee as our senior English teacher. Many in Worland believe that the hardest class to pass is the senior English and this has very little truth to it, but it is not one of the easiest of classes at the high school level. There are three major reason for the class being a difficult class and that is the work of the class, the scoring system, and the subject. McGee’s senior class is difficult because of the work of the class. The problem is not that the work is hard and difficult to understand, but …show more content…
McGee scores work in an unusual way, for he makes every assignment out of one hundred points. Unlike the other classes at Worland High, all exams are equal in value as the homework. The helps encourage the students to do the outside of class work, since there more of the read write packets than exams the packets are worth more because of their numbers, but they are the same value as the exams, so don’t expect to pass the class by just doing well on the exams. This scoring is also applied to the AR test and the My Access papers. One really lucky thing that McGee does do for his more carefree seniors is his no fail policy. This policy is that if you do the minimal work that is required then you will get a score of sixty which will get that senior to at least a passing grade, way to go
In the essay, “Other Voices, Other Rooms” from Inquiry to Academic Writing, Gerald Graff argues that students learn things differently from class to class and are not taught to use information from one class in another. This is a problem especially in higher education today because there is such a large gap from professor to professor. Although the disagreement from one subject to the next may seem like a problem to some, if there were no disagreements, nothing would be worth learning. While these problems may occur, they are essential in the evolvement of education. Without these disagreements there would not be any search for more information to solve the problems. Also, students would not be motivated to continue to learn. The disagreements between the two are what seem to confuse students, but what confuses them more is how the education system is set up. Students must learn to make
assignments. In the case of Miss Hiller, she was becoming very discouraged because she didn’t seem to know how to motivate her students to learn. She is also bothered of the fact that the students didn’t seem to like her, and that she is having problems disciplining her students. Stansbury and Zimmerman (2000) suggests that to make life less stressful for new teachers like Miss Hiller, the principal may reduce the number of students in a beginning teacher’s classrooms, refrain from assigning them the most challenging students, and minimize their extracurricular and committee assignments.
The most challenging class that I have taken during my senior year would be AP Calculus. Having to transition in going to Precalculus to AP Calculus have been a brave action for me to do. AP Calculus has been the class of my senior year that I am having the most struggle on. Even though I have been struggling in that class, I have the ability to make myself to go to tutoring with my AP Calculus teacher Mr. Ninofranco in order to clarify my confusions. I had to endure all the challenging courses with hard work and dedication to the subject in order to fully understand it and obtain a passing grade. This year, I have found my strength in having the ability to ask for help whenever I am confused at a certain point. I had the chance to take the advantage of using the resources that my school have made available to me.
This lesson focuses on the dependency of students. Mr. Gatto explains that, Students come into class and sit on any empty chair believing that 's all their required to do, and that they 're right for thinking that because students ' are assessed by the work teachers provide them, which makes them feel like the only thing they need to do is obey orders. This is the reason why students lack self-evaluation, self -motivation and self-criticism.
There are many reasons that can make this class hard for students including that its time consuming, a lot of responsibility, and the grading system is hard. It is a Monday and Wednesday class with a hybrid Friday which can consume a lot of time. Along with that it requires you to be responsible, and doesn’t give you an option to choose the easy way out of things. Not only that, but you have to keep stay on top of your assignments to keep your grades up. Although the class may be hard, at least students now know what to expect from Mrs. Fox’s English 101
The atmosphere of Mrs. Cobaugh’s classroom environment makes an informative impression upon one as they enter her classroom. Decorations upon the walls consist of mottos of encouragement of a job well done, hard work, and a bulletin board from the book Screw Tape Letters as an example of what she expects in the assignment. While the classroom is dimly light, the students are arranged in the traditional format with the teacher’s desk positioned in the back of the room and students facing the whiteboard.
As discussed in class, discourse is our communication. Furthermore, author James Paul Gee of “What is Literacy” defines discourse as an “identity kit” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). Gee includes discourse as a combination of one’s thinking, acting, and language that is associated to a group of others. There are different kinds of discourses; two discourses that will be discussed in this paper are primary and secondary. Primary discourse is the “oral mode developed in the primary process of enculturation” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). The primary discourse in this paper is the first-person experience I had in high school. Secondary discourse is “developed in association with and by having access to and practice with these secondary institutions” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). School, work, and church are examples of secondary institutions. The secondary discourse in the paper is attending the University of Arkansas and writing this paper. According to Gee, “secondary discourse can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse…” (“What is Literacy?”). Throughout this process I wanted to know if high school is destined. Was my high school experience awful or is there a sociological reasoning behind the events? With that, I have researched the social construct and applied it to my previous experiences enabling me to truly discover if high school is destined.
...ople need to take some pride in their work. If you have a paper due tomorrow, don’t go out with your friends and drink and then come in at midnight and try writing. You may not particularly like doing work. You may not like the class, but the work you do is a representation of you, so do your best work!
One of the major differences of going into Upper School was the change of the amounts of assignments, quizzes, and tests. At first, I was quite worried that this would overpower me and cause me to fall behind in all of my subjects. Instead, the exact opposite had occurred. Contrary to my other classmates, I found that I began to enjoy the new difficulties presented to me. In a way, it reminded me of how lucky I am to enroll in such an amazing school that provides an education that requires the students to reveal their true potential in academics. Unlike my original thoughts, I always enjoy having quizzes and tests; sometimes I even think we do not ...
After class started, Mr. Griffin walked in, immaculate, and on time as usual, and asked for the homework. Most students had passed theirs in, but Mr. Griffin persisted in bothering those w...
Nothing is worse than spending countless hours listening to the clock tick and tock back and forth while studying for the huge midterm at the end of the week. Trying to cram 18 weeks worth of information in one night, memorizing ten different formulas, along with seventy vocabulary words, and wondering why it’s necessary to know these things. That is, until the nerve racking moments, that are filled with anticipation, as the teacher slowly hands back the graded tests one at a time to anxious students who are hanging on the edge of their seats by a thread. Some student’s eyes light up with joy and satisfaction, others sigh with disappointment. Then there’s the Valedictorian of the class who arrogantly snatches his test out of the teacher’s hands
Middle school is very difficult and most of you are probably thinking How am I supposed to survive through the three years known as middle school. In middle school you are given more homework so you need to learn how to manage your time and how to prioritize. Another challenge in middle school is studying for test and quizzes. Last but not least is producing quality work you can’t get away with not doing good work anymore you might have been able to in elementary but not in middle school. If you learn to do all of these things middle school won’t be as hard as it seems.
Given the importance of this course, a student who takes on the role of the class clown may be more focused with gaining the attention of his peers instead of understanding the course material. Therefore, one of the main issues of concern I have is related to the importance of this course academically. Because John Doe has displayed very disruptive behaviour, I am concerned regarding whether his behaviour will affect his grades as well as his understanding of the material.
However, this class has shown me how much I should have paid attention to my high school, since my teacher was a lazy grader, I didn’t try as hard and it has certainly came back to haunt me. It was a little bit of a difficult adjustment. I went through high school writing what I know now were unstructured, horrible essay, and received outstanding grades on all of them. In this class I found it twice as hard to write
...at previously, sometimes in the midst of a discussion, people forget that there are two sides of a story and not everyone has to agree to yours. What we learn from our books or our studies is not what is necessarily important. What we learn from our peers and our professors is what’s important. Learning is more than absorbing fact, it is acquiring understanding, and it is being passionate about the material you are given. Each piece that we have read in class, and each comment that we make impacts a person no matter how little it seems. The education systems focuses too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. However, this course felt like we were learning something instead trying to finish the curriculum. As Albert Einstein once said, “education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.