Well, it's our last weekly assignment of the summer! I'd like to thank all of you who followed through and posted every (or almost every) week. Pay attention next week to the announcements at school, or check this blog to see when our reward lunch for those who did well this summer will be and when our first official meeting will be.
Let me remind you what you should have accomplished for AD this summer:
-Read Part I of Dr Zhivago
-Choose a speech topic
-Write at least the introduction to your speech
If you haven't yet done those things, do them so that we can get off to a great start once school begins.
For your assignment this week...let's keep it simple. This being the last week before you guys have to go back to school (get to go back to school?), tell us what you're looking forward to and what you're dreading about school this year. Did you get the classes you wanted? Check back in a few days to offer encouragement or support or mild ridicule to a teammate. See you soon!
The things I am most looking forward to this year are...... Well, I'm pretty excited about academic decathlon, I think we're going to have a fun time. I'm also looking forward to taking journalism although, I wasn't very excited about that this morning.... I had signed up for AP environmental sciences and I was looking forward to that but there wasn't enough interest so they cancelled the class :( However, things turned around when I arrived home. I decided to look up the course content and found out that it actually looks pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I am not dreading anything. Everything here is still new to me and it's an exciting journey that I don't want to end.
Sorry about Environmental Sciences...unfortunately that happens all too often to some really great classes! :( I'm very glad though that you're anticipating the coming year with excitement! Best of luck!
DeleteWow, if that class had still been an option, i would've signed up for it... but thats too bad. Can't wait to see you all this year!
DeleteLike Scout, I also signed up for AP Environmental Science, and didn't get it. That was pretty disappointing. So, instead, they put me in regular physics. Now I have to get it changed because regular classes are not part of the Allen Wing academic master plan. Grrrr. At least I have German III everyday.
ReplyDeleteI'm dreading French II. French is awesome and all, but I wanted to test out of French II and get into French III. At my current skill, I don't think this is possible. I was planning to study French over the Summer, but that didn't work out. I was studying science instead for some reason. At least now I have the periodic table memorized. Pretty useful, huh?
Hey, Allen, sorry about Environmental Sciences for you, too! I like that regular classes are not part of you plan...good plan! Well, all I can say about French is that French II is kind of the most important foundational information; French III and IV are quite similar in their grammarical content, soooo, if you really wanted to finish in French IV as a senior, there is still next year to work through the French III content over the summer; but of course I never said that ;).
DeleteFrench II isn't that bad - you get to do more projects and learn more food vocab (not to mention make more food, which is always a bonus). And I can't believe you learned the entire periodic table in one summer when I tried listening to The Elements Song for a year! Was that part of your master plan, too?
DeleteI actually only memorized it so my brain wouldn't turn to mush over summer break. I never learned the song for memorizing the periodic table, though.
DeleteOoh...I don't know the song for memorizing the periodic table either...maybe someone should teach us! Might be useful information!
DeleteI saw Daniel Radcliffe sing the elements song on the Graham Norton show. Not gonna lie, it was pretty great.
Delete'm looking forward to all of mt extra-curricular activities, and seeing all of my friends. I am dreading the tons of homework and little free time i will get though.I signed up for Mock trial and Woodshop, but didn't get them, and they accidently put me in regular Chem.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking foward to seeing my friends and taking new classes. I got into the classes I wanted so thats good. I'm not looking foward to homework.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone looks forward to homework. :) But trust me when I say you will feel so much better at the end of the semester knowing that your efforts paid off. I hope to see soon!
DeleteIt seems like scheduling had the opposite effect on me - I got an AP class instead of Italian I, but I don't think I've ever been happier to get the alternative. Regular psychology has helped me in life more than I give it credit! I'm also looking forward to French III now that some of the grammar has been conquered, Academic Decathlon (of course), and the library because I've missed walking through the shelves.
ReplyDeleteThe two things I'm not looking forward to are testing and spending all night with my textbooks. I'm hoping that if I build up a routine, it'll be a less painful transition compared to sophomore year. But no matter how much work I get, I always love the feeling upon completion, so I think this year wil be a great one for the perfectionist in me.
Lucky you! I would've loved to have been put into an AP class as a second option. I had actually put AP psychology as my second alternative for AP Environmental science (which didn't happen) but I didn't get it! I think French III will be fun. I can't wait to see you there! :D
DeleteI hope you like AP Psych Maria, thats too bad about Italian
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