Before the month of February, Geist's essay workload was somewhat acceptable for the English 9 Honors class. she would give us an occasional essay every other week. But for the past few weeks we have been getting pummeled by essay after essay, and on top of that, projects. It is becoming hard to even keep up, and get good grades because Geist grades so harshly. I have recently concluded that an eighty percent on one of her essays would be easily a one-hundred and fifty with any other teacher.
If you feel that Geist is working us too hard, as I do, please discuss it. You may also include what you want to do or what you would like to do.
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geist is evil
I find this interesting since you are in an HONORS class--you should expect challenging work!
As far as the grading goes, how many other teachers allow you to go over work, fix the assignment and then take the better grade?
Do you all honestly think I am that mean?!
too much to carry home
Umm..... she does kind of does give us a lot of work but she only wants us to get better and all this work is just preparing us for our future so yeah we complain but we do need the work
Amen Homie you said it in one paragraph that moved me to tears because it is the truth
her work wont let me sleep
I respect her decisions completely...
Yeah, yeah, call me a suck-up - but whatever
Ummmmmm, all I have to say is read your first essay (the Regents technology one!) AND SEE HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME!!!!
You cannot say that you have not grown because the proof is in the pudding! You all are BETTER WRITERS!!
her eassys are hard and i cant sleep because they are so long
were is the pudding
i agree with parts from everyone but..... yes geist has been going a bit harsh but i think in the end we will all be thanking her for making us work that much harder.....i mean look at how much we have already improved..... and we do improve because we do not want to get the "bad grades"
I agree 100%!! We are being overloaded with work and not only from one teacher at a time. I would say that one project OR essay at a time is enough, not numerous for many classes. And yes, although we ARE honors students, we have lives and lately our lives have revolved around projects ans essays. Too much work at once is causing all of us to stress out and stress is not good!!!! Geist is not mean, but she just needs to put her feet in our shoes (as young teenager) and realize that we cannot only focus on schoolwork every second of our lives. =/.
AMEN!!!! GEIST IS A MONSTER!!!!
I think that, although we are honors classes and we are expected to do a higher level of work that the amount of work given lately has been a little too much. For example when we had the Flowers For Algernon rewrite, The Odyssey Essay, and the Me-Term. On top of this we have many other classes with so much other work. And although completing all of this work is challenging I was able to finish it early. So I think that although the work is stressful and a little too much it is suitable for an honors class.
We are only 14/15!
What kind of a life are we supposed to have? Frankly, our lives should be revolving around schoolwork at this time in our lives.
And... stress is only bad when you do not know how to deal with it. Find an outlet other than complaining in class and get over it.
(kind of harsh, I know)
i think geist is teaching us to be better and how to be better writers. her work nay be hard and graded harshly but geist does have a point, she gives the essays back and gives us time to do the rewrite. :)
um,
i agree.
i have had so much workk latley.
essay's.
re writes.
projects.
regents practice.
and on top of that journels.
it is crazyy.
to much for work my little brain to handle.
haha
give me a break please!
lol
In ways I do agree but we are an honors class and should expect more challenging assignments.
But the work load lately has been... Well, A HUGE PAIN!
I as well have not been sleeping and when I have my average sleep time is roughly 2 to 4 hours per night.
example-
The Odyssey essay was due on Friday for the family of 7. I not only had that to type out but I needed to finish my journal assignment that was 6 pages long. I fell asleep at 3 while I was typing! I woke up with 7 pages of space.
I think the only way to solve this problem is to start English work as soon as it is assigned and get it over with.
I for one have started the Me-term Monday and only have to write the personal episode until I am done. Not only can you make extra pages of things relating to one's self but if someone were to turn the project in early, there is 5 extra points.
I am not sure. In ways the essays and projects are a pain in the butt, but it should be expected.
I Think that geists workload was just trying to prepare us for the future. Even though the content that she gave us was somewhat challenging. She did it to build us up to become better students and people in general. I think that Geist should creat a blog jsut for her (ex) Honors 9. =[[ She wants us to be prepared for all the hardships of life that we are going to have to deal with and can't just not do and get a 0 for.
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