How mad would you be to get this assignment?

Ten · Registered User Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 636

If you're in high school, lemme know.

This is for a grade 12 social class that I'm teaching and for some reason I think they're going to be pissed at me (for life) tomorrow when I give this to them.

No, it's not fun. But it's core material that they'll need to know for the unit exam and final exam. Besides,plan if they on going to university they better get used to presentations. :\

So, is this a typical assignment you'd get or something way worse? I've been out of high school for 5 years. I've been calloused by receiving horrid assignments in university but never thinking twice about how much they suck. They're mandatory if you wanna pass so you don't really care about the craptasticness of them.

Potato-VS- · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

Seems like a fairly easy assignment to me and Im in grade 11...

OpTlk · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

I'd be dead beacuse I dont know Canadian History. hEh They'll moan & groan because its an oral presentation, but TOUGH! they're gonna have to do it in college anyways. The assignment itself seems quite reasonable.

If they turn and you wanna win them back, bring a laptop and load up some DoD!

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Shovel me Silly · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

Seems like it would be pretty easy once I learned what acculturation models are. But I'd do the presentation on why Todd Bertuzzi should be someone's girlfriend in prison right now.

Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

ill take devils advocate

first one question when is ur spring break cause if its this week then ur a dead man

second its a group activity some of teh ppl in that class wont be able to get together wit their group for personal reasons which will mess teh assignment up and make ur and their lives harder

Violent Pacifist · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:22 am Post subject:

Sounds fairly simple to me. I've been assigned worse things in the past, and I'm only in 9th grade. I can't stand assigned group projects though -- normally because my groups are so unproductive that I could work by myself and provide twice the results that they do. It doesn't really sound like a project you'd do by yourself though, so I guess I'd be okay with it so long as I actually knew the people I was working with. Working on it with your members outside of class seems mandatory, and as Speaker said, some people won't be able to get together because of "personal" reasons (which could extend as far as they're too lazy to get some other person's address).
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Kazebari · Official Mall Ninja Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 935

Canada has a history?

just kiddin ;D

Assignment doesn't look like any difficulty as long as time is spent on research. There are enough topics to cover so that seven minutes of discussion is easy to reach.

When is it due?

Ten · Registered User Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 636

They're getting two class periods in the library and one class period to work on it assuming they've gathered all of their resources.

Regardless I've been convinced to wait until Monday to show them this.

Thankee.

KAMIKAZE MadMax · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

well in high school I slept in history and social studies classes....never opened a book and never looked at articles we had to read.....and always had a 100% in that class. I never got below a 99 on anything. The assignment is something I am used to know being in college (Michigan State) but back then, that looks tough but knowing me it would have been another cake walk for me. tee hee hee. Anywho I think they will hate it at 1st then later (maybe a lot later) they will realize the real value of it, and probably appreciate the fact that you gave it to them. #Beer

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Ten · Registered User Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 636

Yes, I find it horribly ironic that I'm teaching the same class in the same room where I slept everyday in when I was in grade 12. I think I got a 65% in it actually. :\ My class is about a zillion times more interesting though, the kids are really tuned in. I kill myself laughing at them at least once a day, they're all very good kids.

shockwave · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

I would be extremely mad if I got that assignment for a couple of reasons.

1) the extent that I know about canadian history is where it overlapped american history from 1750's to 1812.

2) I am not in school anymore, so I would be "Why is this strange guy giving me an assignment"

3) even if I was in school, I much prefered calculus, differential equations, chaos theory to any sort of language or social sciences.
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Shovel me Silly · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

Dominator · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:

History Suxurs, i would be pist at ya LoL.
then again that why i dont take much history classes.
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Stevo · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:52 am Post subject: