woaface
08-25-2004, 03:17 PM
For Art, my teacher is pretty cool...just kind of zoned out. We have an art sketch book (go figure!) and we can design it how we like. I have two pieces of board paper. One piece is white and covers the entire front. The other is Maroon and covers half making an S shape down the middle.
On the white piece I've drawn this cool moutain with some clouds and a river off to the side and a sun/moon thing rising beside it. I'll take pictures, it's way cool. On the maroon side I have three symbols. "Panther" "Mercury" and a god's head. Tehehehehe.
For English, my teacher is an older lady, 60 or 70, very small and with a very small voice. She is however energetic and smiles often. She's not "old" but she's old. Anyways, today in class, two things happened that caught my attention, one of which I pointed out to her, the other of which I'll point out if it's brought up again. We are taking on a study of significant American literature from the explorers to now. During this, we were talking about the Puritans and she said (not quoting the book obviously) something along the lines of
"They had very rigid views of life and it's just like some people today in Greenville, they think they are completely right and there is no room to argue with them"
Well, I felt like asking, isn't that rigid in and of itself? Aren't you assuming they are that way? (Since she's alluding to Southern Baptists, whom which I spend time with on a regular basis...being that I've lived here for 9 years). I've never seen any one of them go "No...this is EXACTLY how it happened because I KNOW this is how it's happened and that's the ONLY WAY" kind of thing. I've not heard one, they're open to discuss with you and usually, like any good natured person will ask "Well let me ask you this" or say "This is what I've learned" first.
Anyways, the next wasn't politcal, and I won't go into amazing detail The book said something along the lines that some guy who invented a vaccine for small pox. He was critisized horribly for using it and (to quote the book) "by the time the epidemic ended, 6000 people (I think that was the number) he had injected 300 of which of 6 had died"
So she writes on the projector "This guy eradicated the disease"
Obviously I raise my hand and say something along the lines of "What the book says is "by the time the disease had ended" not "he ended the disease" so your conjecture is that he eradicated it...when the book is actually saying that his vaccine was efficent and that it shouldn't have been critisized"
Many of the students in the class lost me at word one (to them it was:blah: ) and one kid said "WHOA MAN THAT WAS CRAZY" and she just looked at me. She took a moment to think about it to which she said "Just write it down, I understand I made a small mistake but don't worry about it"
Anyways, I enjoy my classes and being in highschool is way fun. It's a great school!
On the white piece I've drawn this cool moutain with some clouds and a river off to the side and a sun/moon thing rising beside it. I'll take pictures, it's way cool. On the maroon side I have three symbols. "Panther" "Mercury" and a god's head. Tehehehehe.
For English, my teacher is an older lady, 60 or 70, very small and with a very small voice. She is however energetic and smiles often. She's not "old" but she's old. Anyways, today in class, two things happened that caught my attention, one of which I pointed out to her, the other of which I'll point out if it's brought up again. We are taking on a study of significant American literature from the explorers to now. During this, we were talking about the Puritans and she said (not quoting the book obviously) something along the lines of
"They had very rigid views of life and it's just like some people today in Greenville, they think they are completely right and there is no room to argue with them"
Well, I felt like asking, isn't that rigid in and of itself? Aren't you assuming they are that way? (Since she's alluding to Southern Baptists, whom which I spend time with on a regular basis...being that I've lived here for 9 years). I've never seen any one of them go "No...this is EXACTLY how it happened because I KNOW this is how it's happened and that's the ONLY WAY" kind of thing. I've not heard one, they're open to discuss with you and usually, like any good natured person will ask "Well let me ask you this" or say "This is what I've learned" first.
Anyways, the next wasn't politcal, and I won't go into amazing detail The book said something along the lines that some guy who invented a vaccine for small pox. He was critisized horribly for using it and (to quote the book) "by the time the epidemic ended, 6000 people (I think that was the number) he had injected 300 of which of 6 had died"
So she writes on the projector "This guy eradicated the disease"
Obviously I raise my hand and say something along the lines of "What the book says is "by the time the disease had ended" not "he ended the disease" so your conjecture is that he eradicated it...when the book is actually saying that his vaccine was efficent and that it shouldn't have been critisized"
Many of the students in the class lost me at word one (to them it was:blah: ) and one kid said "WHOA MAN THAT WAS CRAZY" and she just looked at me. She took a moment to think about it to which she said "Just write it down, I understand I made a small mistake but don't worry about it"
Anyways, I enjoy my classes and being in highschool is way fun. It's a great school!