holy crap when will it end?

Undertaker and Eulogy comes to mind immediately.domatron23

thank you! but i still want to hear what the users of gs have to say about 'projects'...

I remember the last project I had to do in high school. It was for a history class, on the 1980s. I had minor threat playing during my entire presentation, which consisted of me talking about how Ronald Reagan funded terrorism and caused the crack epidemic. I didn't care about facts, the teacher was a huge republican and I had to listen to him talk about trickle down for a semester, so he was going to hear minor threat and iran-contra.

So glad I'm out.

seriously, its been bugging me since ive started going to school. why do teacher make us do "projects?" its 12:00 at night, and im trying to find a phrase that starts with 'u' or 'e' and relates to the black plague. its for an acrostic poem, and i honestly dont know what the hell it has to do with my knowledge of the black plague. i understand presentations and essays, but this is just a load of ****. and apparently were doing more "creative projects" in the following week.Xeros606

How about "Epidemic"?

Seriously, english class, especially the creative projects, are the best part. Poetry is the best part of english class, as it challenges one's vocabulary, and challenges one to learn more about sentence structure and flow.

I didn't like projects going through school either... I didn't even do them much of the time. It's a good thing that later in my high school career I didn't really have any projects which helped my grades. :D

I don't recommend anybody do the same. At the time I was lazy and didn't care about life. I still ended up doing rather well through high school and received a full ride through college.

"Epidemic" for: "E"

"Unsanitary Conditions", or just "Unsanitary" for: "U".

Come to mind when speaking of the plague.

[QUOTE="Xeros606"]seriously, its been bugging me since ive started going to school. why do teacher make us do "projects?" its 12:00 at night, and im trying to find a phrase that starts with 'u' or 'e' and relates to the black plague. its for an acrostic poem, and i honestly dont know what the hell it has to do with my knowledge of the black plague. i understand presentations and essays, but this is just a load of ****. and apparently were doing more "creative projects" in the following week.Lockedge

How about "Epidemic"?

Seriously, english class, especially the creative projects, are the best part. Poetry is the best part of english class, as it challenges one's vocabulary, and challenges one to learn more about sentence structure and flow.

My girlfriends a really good writer though, and so is one of my best friends. Its like, "Damn, why cant I do anything like that" haha.

"everyone died"

I hate projects and anything that's too much like work. I like English as long as it's not writing an SA on part of a Shakespeare play or something. I absoultely love poetry in all forms and my face lights up if we're ever doing anything about it. My favorite is Free Verse style poetry and that tends to be how I write my own little poems.

Okay, so I kept reading the first post as "Black penguin" and all the words you people were giving made no sense...

I swear I'm not on crack...

but yes, epidemic and unsanitary seem to be good

And projects are a manditory factor of high school to show the teacher that you have the ability to execute the lessons taught on your own.

Projects exist for lazy teachers. It means they don't have to worry about setting any homework and can waste valuable class time letting you be "creative", rather than teaching you anything.jimmyjammer69

Projects prepare you for the "real world", where many white collar jobs require project completion and things being finished by a deadline. Projects that make you think about things in a new way may help make you more creative.

Projects exist for lazy teachers. It means they don't have to worry about setting any homework and can waste valuable class time letting you be "creative", rather than teaching you anything.jimmyjammer69

[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]Projects exist for lazy teachers. It means they don't have to worry about setting any homework and can waste valuable class time letting you be "creative", rather than teaching you anything.CodingGenius

Projects prepare you for the "real world", where many white collar jobs require project completion and things being finished by a deadline. Projects that make you think about things in a new way may help make you more creative.

None of the asinine projects I was set at school had anything to do with future life. Don't get me wrong, I totally take your point on deadlines, and I'm not saying there aren't fringe benefits, but projects are almost always a way for the teacher of taking a known homework template and passing it off as giving the kids freedom of creativity. Take the acrostic example from the OP.

What grade are you in??? Because we've been talking about the plague too.GamerBoy53

sophomore in hs.

I had to do a project for College English III last year over the 1920s. I did it over Silent Films and had to draw and write a poem about both, describing them. The drawing of Nosferatu took four hours, the other one, not so long, but I still did it for 11 hours (3:30 PM - 2:30 AM). >_>

I have to do a creative writing piece about a certain instance in my life by this Friday, using an aphorism from the book tuesdays with Morrie.

I remember the last project I had to do in high school. It was for a history class, on the 1980s. I had minor threat playing during my entire presentation, which consisted of me talking about how Ronald Reagan funded terrorism and caused the crack epidemic. I didn't care about facts, the teacher was a huge republican and I had to listen to him talk about trickle down for a semester, so he was going to hear minor threat and iran-contra.

So glad I'm out.

NearTheEnd

yea dude i stayed up till 1:00 doin a bio project on my 5th day of school

WHAT THE HELL!?