History Day( for those who know)
Hello Again, and welcome back to my mind!
Well This Post is about the wondeous project California and other parts of the US like to call... History Day
For those of you who don't know it, it is a pain inducing, yet slightly fun project like science fair, where you have a Theme, find a topic that fits this theme, and the research the hell out of it until you make a board and turn it in with a grade pricetag of around 300 points! Yes it can be helpful to your grade, and also for your education, but in truth, you learn little, because you only research your own topic. Yes, you see others present, but in no way have you learned what they have from the twenty plus sources they had to get to pull ths project together.
At the school I go too( I wont say to keep from getting in trouble, though I really want people to know)--as with any other school almost anywhere-- there is always a couple teachers that are not always...um...how should I put this without sounding vulgar... ok well crazy. Back to the main point. Two of our classes combined to present their boards because you can work in pairs and you have the option to work with someone from the other class. Our school has become over populated, and the total amount of students was some where aroun 95-105 people. My "crazy" English teacher decides to have us take stupid notes that won't help us, on EVERY project. After the four or so days of notes, she of course, had us turn them in. This was totaly pointless because as I said in a previous thought, we could have learned more from not taking notes and just paying attention to what people are saying, but there is always one retard who has to ruin it for the hard working people and make everyone take notes. I wish there was some way of being able to seperate these kids. This is the situation for most classes, and probably at other schools too, but there is no way to fix it.
In conclusion, History day can be fun and teach you a lot of things you didn't know, but when you are forced into paying attention, you don't care anymore, and you will not remeber it a week from then as you are righting down notes quickly so that you can be graded. Moral of the story: you learn more, when you don't have too.
Well This Post is about the wondeous project California and other parts of the US like to call... History Day
For those of you who don't know it, it is a pain inducing, yet slightly fun project like science fair, where you have a Theme, find a topic that fits this theme, and the research the hell out of it until you make a board and turn it in with a grade pricetag of around 300 points! Yes it can be helpful to your grade, and also for your education, but in truth, you learn little, because you only research your own topic. Yes, you see others present, but in no way have you learned what they have from the twenty plus sources they had to get to pull ths project together.
At the school I go too( I wont say to keep from getting in trouble, though I really want people to know)--as with any other school almost anywhere-- there is always a couple teachers that are not always...um...how should I put this without sounding vulgar... ok well crazy. Back to the main point. Two of our classes combined to present their boards because you can work in pairs and you have the option to work with someone from the other class. Our school has become over populated, and the total amount of students was some where aroun 95-105 people. My "crazy" English teacher decides to have us take stupid notes that won't help us, on EVERY project. After the four or so days of notes, she of course, had us turn them in. This was totaly pointless because as I said in a previous thought, we could have learned more from not taking notes and just paying attention to what people are saying, but there is always one retard who has to ruin it for the hard working people and make everyone take notes. I wish there was some way of being able to seperate these kids. This is the situation for most classes, and probably at other schools too, but there is no way to fix it.
In conclusion, History day can be fun and teach you a lot of things you didn't know, but when you are forced into paying attention, you don't care anymore, and you will not remeber it a week from then as you are righting down notes quickly so that you can be graded. Moral of the story: you learn more, when you don't have too.
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