Okay so Sophmore Year starts in 2 days

[Chris]

So High School's starting up once again. I'm suppose to be Jr, but I kinda had some problems in the sixth grade so I'm getting that off my chest before anyone gets confused. Okay! Now...

Here's my schedule if anyone is interested:

1st Hour: Basic Skills Development Math(I suck at math. Sue me)
2nd Hour: Web Page Design--In the words of Jackie... SQUEE!!!!!
3rd Hour: Biology I
4th Hour: Spanish I
5th Hour: Geometry
6th Hour: LUNCH!!!!
7th Hour: English 10
8th Hour: Speech(Im so gonna hate this class....*has issues with making speeches*) Unless I pretend I'm Brooke Davis from OTH season 2 when she made her President Speech than I guess I'll do okay...

So yeah. Talk about your favorite classes and give me feed back on my classes if you want.

[Xenith]

It's extremely hard to give feed back on someone's classes when you don't go to the same school, district, or even state as them.

You definitely want a good graphing calculator for geometry. If you haven't already bought one and loaded it up with all the geometric formulas as programs, then do so ASAP! Even if you can't use it in class (that's usually a teacher or school decision as by now they should know what one is really capable of. When I started junior high they were outlawed, but as I went on thru high school they actually became more accepted as teachers came to accept them as allowed current technology.), it will seriously help with homework.

I failed Spanish I the first time I took it as a Sophomore because...and I swear to god I am not making this up: I didn't color a horse that I wrote my project on. Although I have long forgotten that teachers name, I will never forget her face. Worst teacher I've ever had, and I guess I wasn't alone in that assessment as she was gone the next year (after only 1 year, she was fresh out of college and we learned so very little and yet took standardized tests on subjects we didn't begin cover. I still would have had a low C, except for not coloring the ****** horse). My next Spanish teacher was a nice old lady from Argentina, she was a little hard to understand at times as she had a heavy accent, and would occasionally lapse into pure Spanish in conversation. Still she was a pretty good teacher....and a hell of a lot better than that other dipstick who spent more time talking about Indians (Seriously WTF?) than teaching the language.

English classes varied from horrendous to great depending on the books you covered. I will never forget Sophomore English as we read the single most depressing boring moronic book that I will ever have to read and analyze..."ETHAN FROME". ("A House on Mango Street" is a distant second tied with "Huckleberry Finn". It was funny how as a child I always thought Mark Twain was this great entertaining funny author based on kid's adaptations of books and movies...but when I read the actual novel. It was rather boring, made worse with Twain butchery of the language in the name of dialect and confusing random phrasing. All in all not at all like the entertaining read I expected from my childhood. Also no list of crappy books would be complete with the Scarlet Letter or Great Expectations. Talk about an ironic title...keep waiting for something...anything to happen almost the whole time reading it.).
ETHAN FROME was written in the early 1900s and if only the dam thing had stayed there and not somehow survived. My English teacher was obsessed with the book. She's the only person I've ever met who has ever read that book and somehow liked it...other than those supposed literary critics who does anyone know who they actually are or why they matter? Horrendous book that if you never have to read...consider yourself extremely blessed!

[Fourever Charmed]

Wow, Chris, you have a class load that would've killed me! Seriously, the only thing missing is P.E. lol I sucked and despised at Math, Science, Spanish, and especially Speech! (My speeches are so awful. I stutter, my voice gets super quiet and I have no control over the volume, my mouth gets dry, I shake, I forget what I'm saying...I did a speech with a blind friend during my Senior year in English and when we sat down he told me I didn't even sound like the same person.) Pretty much the only class that I would've been good at was English and I think in my 10th grade English class, I had a bitch of an English teacher. (She especially hated me because I had a tendency to correct her when she miscalculated scores on my tests and quizzes.)

So I can't really give you much advice I'm afraid. Those are all subjects I was never good at. What I hope is that you get great teachers for all your subjects. A good teacher is always key in making it through a terrible class. I took conversational Spanish (just enough to pass the requirement for my high school) for example and I had a teacher who was so good to me. I don't know how he put up with my awfulness in that class, actually. I somehow managed to get a B. (And then forget everything he taught me as soon as I was done with the class.) I also had a really great Math teacher my Senior year, but two very rude Math teachers for my Sophomore and Junior years (they were best friends, go figure) and it made all the difference in how pressured I felt and how much I dreaded the classes. And I never took Biology in high school, so I don't know how that is. I took it last semester in college and lucked out with the best Bio professor I ever could have gotten. (I got an A! I still have no idea how that happened. I swear I did so poorly on all of his tests and quizzes. lol) But yeah, I guess my lame advice is to just try and get the best teachers. If they have a bad rep - especially in classes you may not be good at or don't like - I would suggest to try and have your and/or your parents switch you to another teacher that has a better reputation. If you luck out and get great teachers on the first go, then awesome! And I hope you have a fantastic year!