<p>no, it’s just you</p>
<p>Depends on what you mean by “easy”. The concepts in English are usually very easy. Throughout all the English classes I’ve taken in high school and middle school (8 years worth), I’ve learned maybe a month’s worth of content…it’s pretty much just hammering on things I already know again and again. The workload, however, is much larger than other classes. English homework has probably taken up half of all the homework I’ve ever done. Usually wasted effort, though. </p>
<p>I hate English classes.</p>
<p>just you he he</p>
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<p>If you get the good teachers, then it’s easy.</p>
<p>Depends on the teacher:
Math and SS: Easy
English and Physics: Hard</p>
<p>HAHAHAHA! I’d rather do 500 labs than read any more Voltaire or Walden.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re just in the easy classes… or your school lacks good English classes. But think about it: you use English every day, of COURSE most people do better at something concrete like English than abstract formulas and number that they see only in a class room. I don’t see how ‘hard’ you want English classes to be. Do you expect to be reading Beowulf in old Icelandic or something?</p>
<p>Use some common sense.</p>
<p>Mm, it depends. Some concepts can be difficult to understand in Chem or Physics (“What the heck’s an antibond?” Pretty much) but I think the application is pretty easy. They give you a formula. You plug in the numbers they give you. You get new number. Fin.</p>
<p>In my 11H class, I do poorly on tests sometimes because my teacher picks totally esoteric and random minutiae for about a quarter of the questions. And APUSH takes a lot of time- easy to understand, just a lot to memorize.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re just in the easy classes… or your school lacks good English classes. But think about it: you use English every day, of COURSE most people do better at something concrete like English than abstract formulas and number that they see only in a class room. I don’t see how ‘hard’ you want English classes to be. Do you expect to be reading Beowulf in old Icelandic or something?</p>
<p>I disagree, I think English and literature interpretation is way more subjective and abstract than anything in math or science. I mean math and science are typically concrete and predictable. Any proven formula or theory will work continuously. There are thousands of exceptions and anomalies within the English language. </p>
<p>Although I think it really comes down to being mostly left-brained or right-brained.</p>
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<p>You are forgetting, of course, that you have spoken and used English for 17+ years of your life. Sure it’s not all concrete, but even a stupid dunce in the United States can probably read and write. We read and write every day which equals more exposure to English.</p>
<p>Chemistry and Math are generally very abstract and recently introduced to high school kids (as in actually learning it, not the introduction of the idea). The human minds works waaaaaay better with language than it does with numbers or long lists of facts.</p>
<p>But I do agree, Enlighs is more subjective.</p>
<p>EDIT: The actual body of the post is the two paragraphs below, the rest is an example from my physics homework. Long post, sorry.</p>
<p>Hahaha, oh craziness. I hear people about plugging in formulas for science and I just want to chew my own hand off in jealousy or something.</p>
<p>We basically given a very basic equation, and then given cryptic word problems that have a mysterious relationship with the concepts taught in the chapter and the very simple equation we’re given. Takes more skill than use of a calculator (none of that here is mass and acceleration, what’s force, kiddos?).</p>
<p>Nutssss.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>A boy is initially seated on the top of a hemispherical ice mound of radius R=13.8m. He begins to slide down the ice, with a negligible itial speed. Approximate the ice as being frictionless. At what height does the boy lose contact with the ice?</p>
<p>^This was during a chapter about conservation of energy, so we were basically given that:</p>
<p>U=mgy where U is potential energy, m is mass, g is gravity/acceleration of gravity/ and y is height above the reference point. K=.5m(v^2). </p>
<p>Conservation of energy says that at any point during that dude’s motion, U+K is equal to U+K at any other part of his motion…</p>
<p>(And knowing how circular motion works is also a must-have in this problem… that was in a previous chapter.)</p>
<p>This isn’t homework help or anything (I’m not looking for an answer or anything- we did it already, I know the answer), but you can see how Physics can be much more than just plugging numbers in a calculator. To get that problem you have to be reasonably creative in your method of solving it, and you have to know the concepts well.</p>
<p>It’s a fun problem, haha. It’s from Ch 8 of Fundamentals of Physics (7th edition) by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker. If anyone feels like doing it (any physics nerds out there), I can tell you if your solution is right… I thought it was difficult, but I allow for the fact that other schools could have much better science programs than my not-nationally-ranked public school.</p>
<p>So…erm… Physics=serious business.</p>
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<p>But there are still new concepts to learn in English. Even a lifelong speaking of the language doesn’t necessarily prepare you for in depth analysis. But I agree with you, physics is hard, and frankly I am horrible at math and science myself. But I know plenty of brilliant people who can do calculus upside down but still misspell, use poor grammar, and are lost when it comes to writing a decent essay.</p>
<p>But some things just come easier to some people than others. I.E. That problem the person above posted, I have no IDEA how to go about solving that and I wouldn’t find it fun to try, lol. But given a excerpt from a poem, would most people be able to easily identify whether the author used
A.) Parallelism
B.) Allegory
C.) Zeugma
D.) Inverted syntax
To illustrate his/her point? (This is an problem from an old AP English test that we had to do in class yesterday) Those are all pretty distinct, but there are a lot of literary devices that walk a gray line and make accurate discernment difficult. The literary devices above are things most people, like advanced physics, do not learn until high school. And many still go through high school without knowing or caring about that stuff. </p>
<p>Anyway I made my point but I think we’re both right and it just depends which subjects a person is better at.</p>
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<h2>Agreed! English isn’t easy.</h2>
<p>At the same time, I dislike English-geeks who are bitter that they can’t tell one number ffrom the other and run around saying things like “Oh my god, English is so hard and chemistry is just so simple and uncreative! Oh yes, English is definitely higher-intellectual knowledge compared to boring things like math!”</p>
<p>And I’m an English/foreign language person myself :)</p>
<p>i’m taking 2 english electives right now, and i probably get at least 2 hours of reading and writing every night.
although i enjoy it (the material is amazing) i do have to spend much more time on it than my other, “harder” AP and honors classes</p>
<p>it also depends on how one approaches english as a subject. personally, i pay close attention to what i read, my books are covered in color coded highlighting and notes and papers sticking out of pages that didn’t have enough margin-space for me to write down all of my thoughts.</p>
<p>for people who just skim through or sparknote the literature, i’m sure english is “easy.”</p>
<p>I just don’t get why we’re learning all the Dickenson stuff. He makes grammar errors in the novels, or is it just the dialect</p>