<p>@kimm you make it sound like obtaining your SS credits is a drag. Social studies is my favorite subject!! :D</p>
<p>@Atlantic Oh man, that’s rough. I feel you. Last week all of my teachers gave unit exams on the same day.</p>
<p>Wow, I butchered the grammar on that post</p>
<p>Lol yeah. At first I was like “…what?” but then I understood it.</p>
<p>Just finished my first week of high school. It was okay, nothing too different from middle school except the advanced courses actually go fast. In Honors Geometry we covered a lesson each day and have a quiz when we get back from Labor Day break, and the second day of College Prep Biology we started a lab about what life is. I’m procrastinating starting my lab report…</p>
<p>^I would advise you not to procrastinate but then I’d be the biggest hypocrite ever.</p>
<p>Me too. I sort of thrive on stress though</p>
<p>@Swinter Eh, I don’t really mind social studies. It’s just not my favorite subject, haha. I just like English and Spanish and Algebra better. 
I do like World History, though. In elementary school/junior high all we really learned about was American history over and over again, so learning something new for a change is exciting! I just don’t like the work. :P</p>
<p>And so what I’m getting from all this is that we’re all huge procrastinators? If I see I have a lot to do I get freaked out and just keep putting it off. To-do lists definitely help though.</p>
<p>Yeah. And i didnt do my spanish hw so its gonna end up dropping my grade at least 5 points. (though she hasnt put any grades in yet. But all my assignments have been 100s.)</p>
<p>And i got anywhere from a 90-70 on my Personal Fitness quiz.</p>
<p>Lol 90-70? That’s a big range.</p>
<p>How does the grading system work at your schools? The district is doing a new thing this year where your grades are 85-90% Assessments (Tests, quizzes, projects, etc) and 15-10% homework, classwork, and everything else. I hate it. :|</p>
<p>It varies by teacher. Homework is generally 10%</p>
<p>And i said 90-70 cause teachers tend to do 10 or 15 question vocab quizzes so the margin for error is small</p>
<p>@kimm like Atlantic says, it varies by teacher. in my math class assessments are worth 60% and homework is worth 30%. In my history class points, points, points galore. Nothing’s weighted. </p>
<p>@Atlantic oh, that makes sense. my history teacher does that.</p>
<p>For school places for more on tests than like homework. Tests and assessments are about 60% and homework and etc are 40%. I think it’s the opposite in middle school</p>
<p>In my eighth grade math class tests were 80% of the grade.</p>
<p>I swear I did not learn anything in middle school from “teachers”. I pretty much had to teach everything to myself</p>
<p>I had a pretty good experience in junior high, academically. All of my classes had the exact same 18 kids. The gifted program was super small and I really thrived in that environment. My eighth grade language arts classes was a lot harder than my current honors English class.</p>
<p>I look at everybody’s posts and they’re all about school. For me, school starts on the<br>
4th, so I’ll finally know what it’s like to be in high school!!</p>
<p>Yeah, then you can join the cool kids whose schools have already started. 
lol</p>
<p>I’m in the same position as Foodlover…I don’t start until the fifth!</p>
<p>I have a friend who doesn’t start school until the 17th…I’d go crazy if I had to start school that late!</p>
<p>I started school Tuesday, had it Wednesday & Thursday, and didn’t have school yesterday nor will I have it Monday because of Labor Day Recess/Labor Day.</p>
<p>Haven’t posted here in a while, how’s freshman year going everyone? Sophomore year has been good so far for the past three days.</p>