<p>Precalculus- Create a project that would devote to the conic sections- how to find them in our daily lives (one group did aerospace engineering.. no one's been able to top that)</p>
<p>APUSH- Literally every assignment was a goof. One seminar was all about playing out the 1920s (I was a flapper, someone was a minister, another a gangster... we were served sparklin' wine, 'course we were in a speakeasy). Another was studying the military manuvers for the Civil War and we would actually PLAY the strategy game complete with the Eastern US map and figurines.... Honestly, it was the most ridiculous class ever.</p>
<p>But certainly AP Euro was the best with almost every other seminar where we played out characters and met together as a group (think how the Yalta Conference went...)
I never enjoyed these creative assignments. I'm a sadist.</p>
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I had to stalk a stranger and take notes for English class in 9th grade...
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<p>We had to stalk each other in English class in 10th grade (just during school hours). I don't remember what the point of it was, either, but it was weird, watching someone and not knowing who was watching you...</p>
<p>Haha I have a few of these.
PreCal = make a design on your graphing calculator using only legitimate functions (i.e. not the Draw feature)
AP Spanish Lang = pick an interesting word for the Spa-Eng dictionary.
History = French Revolution newspaper. We had to pick a rough time period and write tons of articles from that perspective. Mine was from the perspective of a timetraveller. It was awesome. :)
Chemistry = our spring break assignment? "do something realted to chemistry." We had so much great stuff. Cookies shaped like atoms, "The Periodic Table of Movies", a rap dedicated to our teacher that you can find on YouTube (just search "Eyo"). Mine was a love poem to my lab goggles. It was awesome.</p>
<p>in honor of Mole Day (october 23) my H. Chemistry teacher gave us the pattern for a mole beanie-baby type doll. To get credit we had to sew it by hand by ourselves. That is what remains of domestic education at my all-girls' school!</p>
<p>For psych, I had to go to a public place and act in a "deviant manner" to see how the obviously mentally ill are stigmatized. I went to the mall and talked to myself and asked people repeatedly whether the baby clothes I was holding would look good on me, etc.</p>
<p>Starting on Monday, my physics class will be constructing a trebuchet. We hope we will be able to construct one large enough to launch a bowling ball and leave divots in the football field. BEST ASSIGNMENT EVER!!</p>
<p>I know for physics at my school all the students have to make catapults to launch water balloons. They then get to fire them at the staff on the field. </p>
<p>Ppl go out and watch as teachers come dressed and all sort of wacky clothing like gaters and the like.</p>
<p>We were reading Hamlet, and in order to get us students to learn the vocabulary in the text, the teacher told us to go around and use a list of given words. </p>
<p>They were not just any kind of words -- these words hinted at a bit of sexual innuendo at times: fardels...bare bodkin...those are the only ones I remember.</p>
<p>This isn't a homework assignment but I thought it was funny:
In 8th grade, we devoted a whole day to becoming monks during class. We all had to take a vow of silence, and we were split up into groups. There were stations all over the classroom (with the lights turned off) with a "monastic" activity. There was a calligraphy station, meditation station, sleeping station (that was fun), etc. One of the stations was the "exercise station" and my teacher made us walk in a conga line through the PE field, and we couldn't respond to people asking what we were doing because of our vow of silence.</p>
<p>some others: For chemistry, we made mole 6.0 x 10^23 posters with some sort of saying like "Holy Moley" or "Moley Cow"</p>
<p>For physics, we made boats made out of only cardboard and had a boat race in our school swimming pool. My group's boat did not sink at all, but alas, it didn't even move (it was so heavy that we, 2 100 lb. girls, couldn't even paddle it).</p>
<p>Another physics project: we made Rube Goldberg devices (complicated thing-o-ma-jiggies that perform a simple task, like I SPY stuff) to pop a balloon.</p>
<p>wow that boat in swimming pool idea sounds fun</p>
<p>for a history project my group made a trivia game, except we made it on World of Warcraft. We created a map and terrain, and If you choose the right answer (weapon) you move on, if not you die.</p>
<p>I had to write a full page essay on why I was taking Anatomy. Not that funny, but it was kinda obvious. I also assingned my drama I students a TV show to watch to improve character, for example, the stuffy New England lawyer had to watch MASH so he could mimmic the personality of Winchester. We were also required to play "trench warfare" in AP Euro which included projectiles with rather stinky concoctions of the students own creation. Girls win!!</p>
<p>We put Socrates on trial for whatever he was on trial for in 9th grade....I was one of the defense attorneys. If I had to do it now, I would have done so much better of a job.</p>
<p>We negotiated the peace before World War I...I was one of the delegates from Britain...the peace agreement that I drafted was so good (and full of legalese) that the teachers asked me for a copy for their files. We would have won, if I thought far enough to give the Germans the part of Morocco they wanted. Unfortunately my computer crashed too many times for me to actually keep a copy for MY records.</p>