My school had a six day cycle - 8 courses spread out in a rotating pattern (kind of) over the six days. I had:
Chemistry 536
Math 536
Physics 534
French 536 (4?)
PhysEd 5??
Moral Ed 522 - waste of time - 2 assignments TOTAL all year
Home Economics 5?? - elective to fill empty space
Community Service 512 - the 2 block per cycle course that usually just served as a filler so you could get a spare with credit - I spent the year doing nothing and made up most of the work I was supposed to have done
I wouldn’t totally say that I slacked off (the Math-Sci courses were tough) but it was an easy year for me. Then there was CEGEP - I did the Health Sciences profile, and it wasn’t that easy, and now university…man, how time flies!
My senior year, 1981-1982, I only had to pass English. At that time, IIRC, we only had to have 18 credits to graduate; I wound up with 24 1/2-- half-credit for drivers ed., while still getting a full credit for whatever class I left to take it from.
Sir Rhosis
Maybe it was 20 credits to graduate, anybody go to school in KY during that time period?
The hardest thing about high school, in retrospect, was getting up at 5:30 AM to produce the big hair that was required in 1987. I wonder how many brain cells I lost due to inhalation of hair spray.
For senior year, I did APs and slacked. At the time, the AP exams were given almost a full two months before the end of our high school classes. Two extra months of vacation, just when the nice weather is kicking in, was a big motivating factor in my class selection.
Plus, they school organized some AP classes so that you spent one afternoon per week doing a research project at the local state university library. A marvelous opportunity to hang out at student union and vamp at the college guys.
This post proves, I hope, that it’s possible to be a top student and completely vapid at the same time.
Wow! This is my first post to hit the double-digit mark on responses. Thank you all.
First off, Sir Rhosis, in my KY high school, I need 26 to graduate with honors. The only one of my classes that I need: AP Lit and Comp.
We don’t have some of these classes, like Psych (although my Lit teacher, who was also my English III-Accelerated teacher, is certified to teach it.)
I may be dropping AP Physics. Our new system administrator for the school network needs tech aides, so I volunteered to do it on B days. Haven’t officially heard yet, though.
The good news is, I like almost all of my teachers. Shouldn’t be too bad for me, and I don’t mind working late at school on yearbook stuff. (I was there until 7:30 one night, and school is over at 2:55!)
AP Government
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Literature
Debate
Forensics
After lunch (debate and forensics) was a breeze. I just talked to my friends, played speech games with the class, and sometimes helped the newbie debaters out. But I had my share of hard classes, too.
Of course, I couldn’t keep up with the senioritis. Even though I passed all six AP tests I took that year (add Comparitive Gov and Environmental Science), mostly with 4’s and 5’s, I got D’s in Stats and Bio (for which I received a 4 and a 5, respectively). I just didn’t do the homework. I didn’t even do the final project for bio, but since it was due after white-card day (when teachers have to turn in a list of all seniors with F’s), the teacher couldn’t give me lower than a D.
And for all of that lack of responsibility in high school, I got a 4.0 last semester. Just proves that college is easier than AP tests
I’m in my 8th month of my senior year in HS, and at the moment it’s getting very hectic, lots of exams and assignments etc.
The subjects I do are:
Biology
Film & Television
Art
English
Modern History and
Home Economics.
They’re pretty easy subjects, but I’m failing Art, simply because the teacher’s a bitch and I hate writing out my assignments in my folio. Ah well. It’ll all be over soon enough.
1st period: Social Studies
–1st half year - Russian Studies
–2nd half year - Economics
2nd period: Independent Study**
3rd period:
–1st half year - Independent Study**
–2nd half year - Health
4th Period: Project Advance English (6 credits of college English taught in our school - actual college credit from the local university)
5th period: lunch
6th period: Chorus
7th period: Concert Band
8th period:
–Jazz Ensemble (2 days/week)
–Independent Study** the other 3 days
I ended up with a medical excuse from gym because of a knee injury.
**meaning I sat in the auditorium and played the Steinway grand piano.
If I remember correctly, I took Revloutionary Astronomy taught by Nicholas Copernicus, *Contemporary Alchemy * taught by Phillipus Paracelsus, Developments in Cartography and Surveying taught by Gemma Frisius and Typesetting taught by Claude Garamond.
1st–Calculus I (over the phone, believe it or not)
2nd–English IV (American Lit II–not bad, since a cousin who was as much an SF freak as I was taught it; we read Stranger in a Strange Land, among other things)
3rd–Band (my 5th year of marching with a trombone/repairing instruments)
4th–French II (the teacher and I despised each other)
5th–Advanced Mathematics (all the weird math topics that didn’t quite fit anywhere else, like linear programming and complex number theory)
6th–Physics (about halfway through, the teacher quit grading me and started this weird tag-team teaching approach; when he got out of his depth, he had me teach for a while–what do you expect out of a small-town football coach?)
After school, I had marching practice and I worked at the family business–a TV repair shop. I got my first repair license that year. So, no, I can’t really say that I slacked too much.
Wow! My senior year was 9 years ago. It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been our of school that long. I worked my ass off the first three years of high school and got all the hard stuff out of the way so my senior year was really easy.
1st Period: English
2nd Period: Teacher’s Aide
3rd Period: US Government
Last Period: Advanced Photography
I was out of school at 2:00 every afternoon and I didn’t have to go back for 2nd semester. It was great.
I don’t remember much of what I took. These come to mind.
World Lit.
Physics (the only class I ever got a D in - it was all Jeff’s fault. He kept making me laugh. Of course, the bum went on to go to MIT. :rolleyes: Jeff, are you out there?!)
Trig
Comparative Political Systems
I was also a Library Aide for a semester.
I was doing college prep, but had signed up for the military by Junior year.
