Did you have interesting Social Studies and Language arts classes offered in your Junior. High or High School? Any?

Did you have interesting Social Studies and Language arts classes offered in your Junior. Any ..... interesting topics? I took "Folk, Rock, Blues, Lyrics as Poetry," "Animal Farm and Other Animal Stories" and "Ecology" all in Junior Also offered as a Language arts choice were "Old Testament as Literature" and "New Testament as Literature."

In seventh grade we had a Debate class that could knock the socks off the ninth graders and we knew the appropriate way to score points, unlike the presidential debates. I went to school in the mid 1970's. By the time my kids got in school they seemed to abandon choice.

They had 1 elective a day, otherwise they had to fit in the "round hole" no matter what shape peg they were. Did you have any choice? What interesting classes did you take?

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I loved school, still do, I will always be a student! I am such a geek! I love school, there wasn't a time when I didn't love school.In 5th grade we had a teacher who offered sign language, since I have always found all forms of communication interesting, I jumped at the chance to learn sign language.

In middle school, we moved so many different times, (in 6th grade I was in 3 different schools) I just got put into electives that had room. In 8th grade I wound up in wood shop. I was less than thrilled; however, it turned out to be a class that made the biggest impact on my life.

Not for the actual class, but the teacher. He used this class as a community outreach program. We made simple furniture to donate to charities that helped single parents get on their feet, they could "earn" the furniture by doing things for other people.

At Christmas, we made toys. The toys went to Toys for Tots and to local charities. I still think Mr. Miller was Santa.

He taught us to apply everything we learn to the real world, he taught us skills that we could always use to help ourselves or others. It wasn't just making a lamp, he was teaching us house to be a responsible steward in life. Also in 8th grade, we had Civics.

It was my first chance to really explore how I felt about different policies in the government, the judicial system and how the political systems worked. Our final exam was a debate. We picked topics and she held debates.

The class voted and she weighed that in when calculating our grades. My team pulled the death penalty, I learned a lot, but most importantly, I learned how to voice my opinion, then back it with facts.In 10th grade we had Honors English as applied to Marketing. It was very interesting.

He applied our English lessons to real life. All year it was like running an ad campaign. It was interesting to see what we did at the end of the year, from start to finish we had to come up with an idea for the school (ways to "market" the library as a great place to go, healthy eating, civic minded clubs, student government, athletics and earning good grades), create a campaign, market the campaign and then they were voted on by all the 10th grade English students.

Mr. Marlow taught for 2 years at that school, he was dismissed after his 2nd year because he was not following to the strict curriculum.It was a private school, with very conservative beliefs. 11th grade I took Humanities. That class was great.

Philosophy, art, Greek Mythology, In my senior year, I took AP classes and Anatomy and Physiology. I never thought I would think dissecting a cat would be interesting, but it was just fascinating! Our final was a bit gruesome, considering we worked on the cats for an extended period of time.

We had to go station to station and identify what was marked, it was verbal and very difficult. I remember working with my friends coming up with anagrams to remember different things. Please pass the Diet Plasma was one of them, I talked with one of the friends recently, she still remembered all the little sayings.

Her memory was a bit better than mine! Sources: personal experience! .

I was in an alternative program, so I had some options that others didn't... In my high school, Linworth Alternative Program, they encouraged students to create ideas for courses, develop the ideas with the help of the staff, then teach the class (yes, it counted as credit for the students taking the class) with staff present in the classroom for supervision and grading of the student teaching. A few examples of courses offered: The Simpsons Science Fiction Chick Lit Brit Lit Yoga Ascent of Man Native American Studies/Native American Art (offered as a pair of courses) Psychology (the textbook was "Psychology for Dummies") Environmental Science Not all of these courses were taught by students, but they were all outside of the box and extremely interesting. I was in the graduating class of 2002..

I went to high school during the time... ...of great educational experimentation at the end of the 1960s. They started playing with the idea of the open classroom, the open campus, the "pearl system" (where different classes get different numbers of 15 minute pearls of time so classes were different lengths). I took a class in Hemingway, one in journalism, and one in Shakespeare.

I also took Oceanography, a class that included a field trip to the Bahamas. The one thing they would not do was allow me (a female) to take wood shop or auto shop. Apparently the computer system was set up to believe that any student enrolled in those classes was male and so all automatically were assigned to a boys gym class.

The same thing happened to boys who wanted to take Home Ec so they could learn to cook - they were assigned to a girls gym section. Why they couldn't simply swap gym sections, I don't know - they were at the same time. However, five years later my sister got to take auto shop.

I had to wait until college, when I took wood shop in the form of three dimensional design 103. My kids are victims of both "Back to Basics" and "No Child Left Behind. " That means all interesting or different (or advanced math classes) are gone because students a) have to learn the three Rs before anything else, and b) no one gets any special treatment.

Sources: My Experience .

1 I had The Bible as Literature one quarter, but that's all that's stuck in my mind all these decades later. I honestly believe, however, that No Child Left behind has killed off any attempts to offer such interesting ideas. I'm all for accountability, but there has to be a away to have accountability and still have creativity, individuality, and rigor outside the 'box.' .

I had The Bible as Literature one quarter, but that's all that's stuck in my mind all these decades later. I honestly believe, however, that No Child Left behind has killed off any attempts to offer such interesting ideas. I'm all for accountability, but there has to be a away to have accountability and still have creativity, individuality, and rigor outside the 'box.

2 There were a lot of science electives in my school...Geology, metorology, anatomy, AP Chem, Physics, Bio...there was even taxodermy for a while. It's realy tough for my school to keep electives though because class size is shrinking and the school is having trouble keeping so many teachers on staff. It's expensive, but I think it's worth it.

But then again, college is the new high school, and graduate degrees are the new college. So I guess it all works out.

There were a lot of science electives in my school...Geology, metorology, anatomy, AP Chem, Physics, Bio...there was even taxodermy for a while. It's realy tough for my school to keep electives though because class size is shrinking and the school is having trouble keeping so many teachers on staff. It's expensive, but I think it's worth it.

But then again, college is the new high school, and graduate degrees are the new college. So I guess it all works out.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.