Another happy free day in Teachers Aid, this would be the second day now. Of course now on Fridays the school sets up a sound system and music is played throughout the courtyard, which makes the day more up lifting in a way. I wish though they would have a bit more of the classical rock feel, but it’s more like the stuff you hear on the radio these days. That’s why I like to go to one of my favorite teachers room, the cool Mr. O’Grady, because he has the most AWESOME playlists of classic rock I know of. I like to stroll by his room on the way to my Environmental Science class and just hang out there until the bell is close to sounding off. Sometimes he gives me little snacks, things from Jolly Ranchers to green grapes, enough said.
As it is even day here, I already went through my English 2 class. I’m starting to think that I need to readjust my sleep schedule a bit better, for I sort of fell asleep when we were reading ‘The Crucible’(one of my favorite plays). In addition to reading, we have a project to do on it. Let’s just say with that…
The people in my group SUCK (expect one person).
How it works is that there are four tables in the class and each table is to work together on whatever we were assigned for the project (there are four ‘groups’, each a different topic related to the play). My group is more about when Communism was a major problem then, since the situation at the time was fairly similar to the chaos in Salem. We each—there are six people in my group including me—are assigned different jobs; those looking up information, those (me) writing the important information so we can turn it into a PowerPoint, looking for pictures, and so on. And basically now, the project rests on the shoulders of me and one other person who actually wants a good grade on this.
Is it honestly too much to ask that we work together and get this damn thing done right? One person hardly shows up in the class half the time (whether their reasons are I don’t pry), and everyone else mostly just bitched about things and people around the school. I tried to get them to work, but they just wouldn’t, there was only one more person who actually made an effort to looking up information (if you can really call it EFFORT). And the person who was suppose to be doing the PowerPoint? Bailed on us.
Even if we have three weeks to finish this thing, at the hands of two people with other school work it might be a close call. I just honestly hate how people don’t want to make the commitment to the work when it counts for them as well, especially when it’s in one of my favorite classes.
Which brings me now to my Chorus class. It’s usually after my 1st or 2nd period classes that I actually wake up in a sense. We start off with either sight reading music or simple warm ups, then proceed to working on the songs we planned to sing for our concert. The songs are varied from one Japanese song, to several Christmas songs since the concert is in December. This class—as fun as it is—I take seriously. My buddy of the class is sort of becoming my instructor for proper singing presentation, and I am improving quite a bit I must say. I can hopefully get up a video of some funny moments around the class and school as well. I may even be doing a solo, exciting no?
And now…oh crap, bell just rang AGAIN. My timing is quite a jumble. More soon~
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Group projects just need to be outlawed from high schools. Even having one person not willing to work in the group is enough of a pain, but more often than not, at least half of the group is dead weight. "Teamwork" is more of an obstacle than an asset.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly, I don't mind working in a group just as long as the others are willing to help. Other than that, solo is the best.
ReplyDeleteAnd yay my first comment~