<p>English Lit or Lang?</p>
<p>I'd probably go for English Lang, because that class is so open-ended</p>
<p>I guess Lang? At my school we do lang/lit in one year.</p>
<p>Ah, ours are two seperate classes - Lit is more, well, literature focused while Lang focuses more on essay writing and dissecting works for diction, syntax, etc</p>
<p>yeah, we do lang first semester and lit second</p>
<p>(we actually have really good AP averages--4.26 for lang and 4.27 for lit with about 25 taking the test each year)</p>
<p>Ooh! I would teach AP US Government & Politics - cause you can do current event/debate crap. Yea yea. woohoo.</p>
<p>So...back to the v-day thing....I have 5 days...should I be doing college apps? I feel like there is nothing left for me to do. I did U Chicago, Georgetown, and Princeton...and all my others are common app! How uneventful! I guess I will study for my Stony Brook classes. I have 2 more exams left until finals, and next Friday I am sending mid-term grades for those 5 college classes. 4.0?? I'm praying. Oddly enough I have an A in my upper-level Soc and a B in my intro Soc class :(.</p>
<p>I haven't finished any other apps...I've started all of them...does that count? </p>
<p>eugh, please give me your five day vacation, I need it more.</p>
<p>my calc class is going way too fast. he just skipped 3 sections because "he thought we could figure them out." we're almost on integration</p>
<p>my class is completely lost, when explaining my teacher tries to go too quickly, too - she writes the problem and then the answer, and then doesn't get why she can't SKIP the ENTIRE problem. she's like, "oh, it's only a few steps" (in a really girlish voice), and we're like, "If we could get it from looking at the answer packet we wouldn't be asking you the question!"</p>
<p>Such calculus frustration!</p>
<p>I'd definitely teach US History.....in fact, I bet I could teach US history....lol</p>
<p>i was never great at U.S. history. so many people.</p>
<p>I'd teach AP Spanish Language, Spanish Lit, French Lang, and French Lit. There's a world of possibilities that exists only with foreign language studies, and were I to ever teach, I would teach that. AP English Language would probably be the next. Although I wasn't particularly fond of the class last year, I find myself using so much that I learned from it last year this year and outside of class. It's a most excellent course.</p>
<p>And I say "aye" to the fact that it's extremely difficult to translate sentiments from one language to another. That's why I try rarely to do it. Some things are better expressed in one language than another, so it's almost like ripping a heart out by the valves and crushing it to translate it into another. Yeah, no translation classes for me, haha.</p>
<p>Phil - I noticed you were talking about Cracker Barrels on the "fun+games" thread, and guess what? They're in MI and Ohio too!</p>
<p>wow why am i so excited about this?!</p>
<p>at princeton, translation is actually a part of the creative writing program because it requires so much independent thought in your own language. some seniors do collections of translations for their college theses.</p>
<p>See, that's so crazy, gracil. Cracker Barrel always seemed so southern in nature, yet I'm now learning it's up North too. It's cuh-raaaazy!</p>
<p>And yeah, that's what I'd read too, Encomium. I think it's interesting that they choose to have it as a part of the creative writing program curriculum, but I guess it makes sense.</p>
<p>i don't think i want to go to the translation route either. I mean, these things have already been translated a million times and mine would suck a lot compared to those of the masters. I'd rather just understand them and discuss them in that language.</p>
<p>That's exactly the way I see it, Encomium. It makes more sense to me to discuss it in the language that the piece came from in the first place than in a different one. Motives, obstacles, nuances, and other subtleties can be more easily found in the native language than in the one it was translated to. But I guess that's a given, haha.</p>
<p>I feel so left out. I have no idea what cracker barrel is!</p>
<p>Zant - We have cracker barrels too ya know!</p>
<p>Didn't you ever see them on the token Northeast college tour? Connecticut, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine...etc......</p>
<p>If you ever come down this way ('cause I know you have so many reasons to, haha), I'll be happy to show you. I actually haven't been to one in forever, but I wouldn't mind going again. That and "Country Kitchen" are the two "down home"-type places here, as well as the multitude of mom-and-pop places at nearly ever corner.</p>
<p>Not in New York though!
I don't remember ever seeing one! Gotta keep my eye out for them now.</p>