<p>for precalc- survey how many phones are in a 2-mile radius of the high schol</p>
<p>well, in my school , I heard taht the ecology students have to :
Stare at trees..and jUST STARE AT THEM for an HOUR..and write something on it!
Then, there's another class, Asia I, where you have to write on whatever you can see right at the time you read the prompt! then you've got creative writing, of course!
well, I had to write a poem on mole on Oct 23rd (yes, u r right, Mole Day!) :D</p>
<p>One time in AP World History (about a week after the exam) we had our final exam. Because all of us worked hard and had taken the exam, our exam was literally watching TRL (MTV Music Videos) and when it came time for Linkin Park's "What I've Done" music video we took notes over it, and then related five images which appeared to things that we learned in class. One from each major region (Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, etc).</p>
<p>Very Interesting Test.</p>
<p>I was assigned to write a love poem about geometric terms....
In Latin, we had to create a comical rendition of an ancient myth, dress up, and then video tape for class viewing--all in the ancient language, after translating from our english script!</p>
<p>write our own euology for an english class</p>
<p>Well, I didn't have this assignment, but my brother did. He had to write an essay on why dirt was important...for Honors World History.</p>
<p>We had to write a suicide note once. That wasn't funny it was just creepy. </p>
<p>But funniest? Good question. I know the most fun one I've ever had-in precalc we had to make posters of anything we wanted, but everything on the poster needed a function or equation that would graph it. Most people ended up with over three hundred equations-lots of work but some nice finished products now hanging up in that teacher's class room. Some people did cute pictures or logos or whatever, but one girl recreated a van Gogh painting, that was impressive.</p>
<p>I've had some pretty good ones...</p>
<p>1) Had to make a soundtrack for Macbeth. That was great :)</p>
<p>2) Had to make "get well" cards for all sorts of creepy diseases in microbiology. That one was, well, creepy.</p>
<p>3) Had to find a tune to sing the quadratic equation to ("negative b plus or minus the root of b squared minus four a c all divided by two a") and record myself singing it.</p>
<p>4) Had to put "La Malinche" on trial for treason in Spanish class.</p>
<p>As you might be able to tell, our school is all creative-assignment-y.</p>
<p>i had to learn how to get on top of a dummy and perform cpr for health class...yah we had to actually show our teacher our preparation methods...i used an actual person <em>wink wink</em>, which was my girlfriend...lets just say it got out of hand for 40 seconds....</p>
<p>Quote:
i had to watch the south park trilogy for ap english. </p>
<p>"You have the best teacher ever."</p>
<p>agreed</p>
<p>I had to stalk a stranger and take notes for English class in 9th grade...
not sure if that was legal...</p>
<p>I don't remember what the point was but i think it had something to do with "Stargirl" or some other book we had to read...</p>
<p>My senior AP English class's final project was to complete a number of assignments all toward a "carpe diem" attitude.</p>
<p>The gist of it seemed to be "legitimately act like you're 7 again on school grounds." We organized class-wide Red Rover games, made sculptures out of Play-Doh, wore tin foil armor around school, played video games, and spent all of our class time talking about how those sorts of activities affected us, particularly when compared to how we used to think of them.</p>
<p>Glayden we had to stalk strangers in ninth grade english too! Weird.</p>
<p>haha... no stalking for me. I had to make an AP calculus paper box... a box with 4 sides and an open top, with the greatest volume possible. If we wanted extra credit, we had to make our box into something creative... I made mine into a tropical sand and ocean island.</p>
<p>Dang, I wish my teachers liked creative assignments. Most fun thing so far... in AP Spanish we have to have "cultural interactions". I haven't done mine yet, but my friend did hers by text messaging with someone from Chile. </p>
<p>Oh, I forgot one. For APUSH last year (post-test) made us take these quizzes to analyze our political leanings, and who we would likely support in the 2008 election. Then we had to write a paper on whether or not we agreed with our results. The best part was this one quiz--they decided if you were liberal/conservative based off questions like "What is Whole Foods" and "Can you name five popular country singers off the top of your head?" and stuff like that. I laughed really hard.</p>
<p>When I was in college I take an Antropology summer class at the local JUCO. The instructor didn't have a credential in the subject. In the class outline he suggested doing the reading from P. 25-15, 33-17 etc. Someone called it to his attention, but he held his ground. He gave one test for the entire grade. It consisted of 5 questions. One of which was to define "dig". He put the final grades on a bell curve. You can imagine the anger of those receiving a poor grade. He defended his test on the basis of receiving help from his wife and daughter who had completed two years of college. True story...</p>
<p>streak--you're in the wrong thread! Try "most incompetent teacher" over in the next aisle... ;)</p>
<p>For US History, my son had a project with a partner to create a PowerPoint presentation that he would have theoretically shown to 18th century Europeans to get them to come to America and settle in his assigned colony (his was PA). The assignment was called "I Sold My Colony.com." My brother and his partner asked if they were allowed to bash other colonies to make their assigned colony look better. The teacher said, "Whatever you think works." So their first slide was of a burning cabin surrounded by old war deritus (I honestly think it was from Gone With The Wind). They added exploding-cannon-ball sound effects and labelled it: "Massachusetts - would you like to live here?" (a reference a series of bloody battles with the Indians which took place around our town in Mass). The 2nd slide said, "Or here? Pennsylvania" and showed an idyllic Grandma Moses farm scene. It went on to include slides saying that Pennsylvania was the land of financial opportunity (showed a stack of $20s), and that "All of Pennsylvania's citizens are sober, kind and hardworking." The last slide was a picture of a cheesesteak sub and said, "We know that great things are coming for Pennsylvania!"</p>
<p>I don't remember what grade they got but I think it was a good one. Fast forward 3 years, DS is now a college student in PA. I found the Powerpoint on our computer and emailed it to him and asked him if all his college classmates were sober, kind and hardworking. (He never responded).</p>
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<p>Probably around where you do. I know because you PMed me.</p>
<p>Oh, another one my sister's PES (Politicial & Economic Systems) class had (we, unfortunately, didn't do it): They were given various philosophers (Machiavelli, Kant, Wollstonecraft, etc.) and leaders (Queen Elizabeth I, George Bush, Mahatma Gandhi, etc.) and they had to arrange them around a dinner table so that nobody would disagree with either of the people next to them. They ended up with George Bush next to Machiavelli and somebody else.</p>
<p>An interesting quiz that my class got:</p>
<p>The day before Thanksgiving Break, my PES teacher gave us a quiz called "Stuff You Should Just Know." There were fourteen questions the teacher read aloud (and one statement at the end), that were something like this:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>What bird did Benjamin Franklin propose to be a national symbol?</p></li>
<li><p>What country did the Ottoman Empire eventually become?</p></li>
<li><p>What country is in the area known as Anatolia?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>...</p>
<ol>
<li>You have three seconds. Spell "turkey."</li>
</ol>
<p>I figured out the pattern by the second one and got a fifteen. The average score was probably around a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>mine aren't so funny as they are odd and weird funny. I have the craziest/happy-go-lucky teacher in the school to fulfill my art requirement for graduation.. to put it in perspective "Class today we will practice hurricane drills. When I say HURRICANE-everyone get under your desk in the fetal position!" "HURRICANE!!!!!!!!!" "Brandon, (kid refusing to do the drill) you were just swept away by the gail force winds, I hope you take this drill seriously now."
I live in oklahoma. Hurricane capital of the world. </p>
<p>But anyways on to my favorite assignment- "Class we will watch three movies this month- Shrek, Home Alone 2, and a Knights Tale." "When we are done watching the movies, I want you to tell me which one was your favorite, and give me three reasons why."
Enough said.</p>