Pile It On

It seems with Christmas Break coming up every teacher wants to get as much done as possible. They don't seem to consider the fact that few of us are able to deal with everything they give us. Reading for English isn't bad, although it may help if we actually knew when the poster for that class is due. Originally it was suppose to be last Friday but with all the reading we had to do as well as finishing our last literature circle, we were told the poster wasn't as important as finishing our novels, handing in the work we have done for it, the journals on our discussion time and our peer/self evaluations. So now we sit with our posters partly done since no one knows when it is due so it is falling to the bottom of the list.

In math my teacher decided that when was going to take this week to teacher us a chapter and give us an assignment o Friday (to be handed in at the end of class) although we spent to days just on the start of trigometric identities, and tomorrow is a shortened period with the mass, and supposedly we have a lengthened period six as well which cuts classes even shorter. That and Friday all of our classes are shortened for the Christmas Assembly.

In Peace and Politics my mark has finally gone up but the most annoying thing is that there is less than one month until the end of the semester and we still only have seventeen marks for the class. This means that every mark affects you grade. The highest mark in the class is an 89% which for a 12U class, that is low. Maybe for something like math it would make sense but for a class that most ue to pull up their average, its a religion class so all you should have to do is mak an opinion and write well, but the class can't seem to behave, the teacher gives us half notes then talks for the rest of class making it hard to learn. Plus we have an assignment that's due today, seeing as is after midnight, that sure may seem easy but the teachr wants us to make sure that we don't give the normal community service is good, it allowed me to help others, stuff that gets us the 90%-100% that boost our marks up since the 10 hours + the 2 page paper is normally 5%-10% of our final mark.

Sure this may be grade 12 but some teachers just take everything to the extreme especially since our schedules for classes are messed up this week and the fact that sometimes it may take until that day after Christmas break to finish the unit. Right now I'm ready to drop from all the work yet I can't unless I want to see my marks drop which can't happen since this year's marks are sent to universities and I need over an 80% average if I want to get into the basic program I want and that isn't including the co-op that I'm aiming for.