My junior year is almost over! As of today, I am forever more done with French class! I really do love learning the language, but I can't say I'll miss Lorenz. I'm also done with my english classmates. I love my teacher and the class, but my classmates are so immature I can barely stand it. After our exam, a couple of my friends decided to make a list of things that are more mature than our class. The list was getting too long, so they just ended up writing "everything" at the bottom. Hopefully most of them don't get to take AP english next year.
Most Finneytownians consider 11th grade to be the year from hell, so I dearly hope that next year is not as busy. The schedule I've made for myself may kill that dream, but that remains to be seen. Now that I know what it's like to take classes wherein I actually have to read through my notes or even actually study before tests, I should be much more prepared for next year than I was for this year. My schedule and my opinion of the classes is as follows (although the classes won't be in this order, for I have put them in alphabetical order):
AP Art History: If I end up having to drop a class, I think it will be this one. History is my least favorite subject, and this class actually gets me another art credit instead of a history credit. If I got a history credit, I wouldn't have to take psych, as I will explain momentarily. This class is a huge workload. Normally, we'd get to start the work over the summer, but I'm not sure how that's working since the teacher is bed-ridden with a leg broken in three places.
AP Art Portfolio: I'm extra excited about my portfolio! Hopefully, mine will be half finished and completely planned by the end of the summer. More on that when I finish the post on my portfolio. It's one of the many posts I've started but not finished. If I finish all that I plan to over the summer, finishing my portfolio by next May shouldn't be an issue.
AP Calculus: Also known as AP Calculator, this class is taught by a monotonous yet hilarious and informative teacher. Last I heard, there were only fifteen people signed up for this class. I like small classes. It should be challenging, unlike my past math classes, but not unmanageable.
AP English/American Lit: If the current AP English teacher keeps this position next year, the class will be a piece of cake, but any real preparation for the AP exam will be done on my own. I would be elated if most of my english classmates from this year weren't taking AP next year, but that's not likely.
AP Psychology: After English, psychology is considered the easiest AP class in the school. I don't really want to take it, but I need another history/social studies credit since I got to skip 10th grade history and go straight to AP US History. I could take two semester social studies classes, but there's only one that's even remotely appealing.
Black and White Digital Photography: I've been wanting to take this class since my freshman year, and I'll finally get to take it my senior year. This will be my chill class. The only deadlines I'll have to worry about are the teacher's, not the college board's, and there aren't many facts to memorize.
Chorale: I've also wanted to take a chorus class since my freshman year, but it has always come down to a choice between art and chorus. Art has won every time. Now that I finally have room for chorus, I got into the most select chorus at our school (okay, so there are only two select choruses) after not having taken a chorus class since eighth grade. I'm pretty excited.
Music Theory: This year, music theory and music history were offered as semester classes for the first time in a few decades. Those who took theory this year were already fairly advanced music students, so the course moved along at a fast pace. I'm hoping for the same next year.
Orchestra: Next year, our orchestra will have only between 25 and 30 members. The viola section will only have three of four, and I will be its fearless leader. This could get interesting. The director has already pulled aside myself, the first chair cello for next year, our harpist, and the two best violinists to tell us that we get to work on separate music twice a week. I can't wait! There is, of course, the problem that I really don't practice my viola. I love to, but I don't have time. I suppose I will have to make more time.
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That looks about like the workload I had initially planned for my senior year. Come August, however, I wound up with only five classes (four of them AP, in my defense) plus an online AP course that I never finished (though I still got a 5 on the AP test, for it was World History). To end the school day, I left early. 'Twas a gravy life, except that three of my five teachers were either incompetent or insane.
I will only have two incompetent teacher, and I can teach myself those classes. I'm hoping it's not as much work as it sounds like. Only two or perhaps three of the classes will require all that much time out of me. Then again, I do just about every non-atheltic extracurricular activity. I suppose I'll just have to wait and find out.
photography is easy and fun. you'll love it.
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