Favorite/least favorite units in school

[jellyoflight]

Favourites: Medicine Through Time (history), Mexican Day of the Dead (art), Medieval Arms and Armour (art), Melodrama (drama), Macbeth (english).

Least favourites: Understanding Drama (so far, all I've learnt is that the people who write plays are all old with funny long names D:), Specific Heat Capacity/Specific Latent Heat (science - stupidest thing ever! it's all about cooking chickens in microwaes and stuff!!! eh?), anything in Food Tech, Trigonometry (maths), Queen Elizabeth I (history).

[labbiedor]

Favorite: I really enjoyed learning about genetics last year in science class. I found it really interesting.

Least Favorite: Well, I think it would pretty much have to be history as a whole. I do find some things in history interesting, but not usually. Last year, we had to do a project on Africa, and it was VERY confusing and difficult. Overall I got a good grade, but it was frustrating.

[charlixsparkles]

Just saw the "least favourite" part... silly me

I didn't really like finding the area of 2D and 3D shapes in Maths... that was annoying. And anything with yellow spotty paper REALLY makes me angry

I also didn't like reading Gulliver's Travels (I hope I spelt that right)... maybe because I didn't like those sorts of stories but... hey...

[Pudding]

Lots of favorites. The French unit (2nd grade), reading the Aeneid in Latin (6th grade), the King Lexicon unit (5th grade), the election unit in 9th grade Civics, and of course:

The Greek unit in seventh grade. We got to wear togas(well, I think they were chitons, but same difference, clothing made of bedsheets) every day and were served grape juice a couple times.

Ms. F was the best! I loved that unit, although my team lost loads of points for forgetting their togas all the time. I also liked her Middle Ages unit because we got to go to the Ren Faire and do all sorts of skits. (Moonie and I went to the same middle school in different years.)

My least favorite was probably the one leading up to the pig dissections in Biology. I'm a hippie vegan, you all know it. I did very well on the lead-up unit, but everyone thought I was some sort of idiot because I refused to dissect something.

[Mongrel]

The Greek unit in seventh grade. We got to wear togas(well, I think they were chitons, but same difference, clothing made of bedsheets) every day and were served grape juice a couple times.

Ms. F was the best! I loved that unit, although my team lost loads of points for forgetting their togas all the time. I also liked her Middle Ages unit because we got to go to the Ren Faire and do all sorts of skits. (Moonie and I went to the same middle school in different years.)

I forgot about the Renaissance Faire! That was definitely fun. I remember for some reason they had henna tattoos, so I got one. And the jewelry there was so pretty. Expensive, but pretty.

My least favorite was probably the one leading up to the pig dissections in Biology. I'm a hippie vegan, you all know it. I did very well on the lead-up unit, but everyone thought I was some sort of idiot because I refused to dissect something.

I had a really lazy teacher in high school Biology, so as long as I handed in two pages of something he gave me full credit for the dissection alternative assignment. When the rest of the class was doing dissections, I copied two pages off the internet and then I could go hang out in two or three extra lunch periods. The only dissection I was ever forced to do was the frog in seventh grade. Ick.

[Tymaporer]

My least favorite was probably the one leading up to the pig dissections in Biology. I'm a hippie vegan, you all know it. I did very well on the lead-up unit, but everyone thought I was some sort of idiot because I refused to dissect something.

I wouldn't want to dissect animals either. It's like...even though they're already dead, it would still feel wrong, and they probably killed them for the purpose of the experiment in the first place.

I think we're gonna dissect frogs in science, but we're not using actual frogs. They said we're going to use a computer program where you can choose between dissecting a realistic-looking virtual frog, or a totally fake-looking one.

We dissected owl pellets in fifth grade, but that was a hairball, not an actual animal. It actually wasn't gross. It was fuzzy.

I remember another unit I really liked...the final project in science last year. The class was in two teams, with three groups each. Each group had to build a thingie where stuff happens to make other stuff happen, and connect it to the other teams' thingies to make more stuff happen. I didn't even really have to do anything, because I was the "project manager". And the teacher let us play music. And the project turned out awesome. And we got to light things on fire.

[Kugetsu]

My least favorite was probably the one leading up to the pig dissections in Biology. I'm a hippie vegan, you all know it. I did very well on the lead-up unit, but everyone thought I was some sort of idiot because I refused to dissect something.

That reminds me of when we dissected minks my Senior year of high school. It wasn't *that* bad, but the smell was terrible and strong enough (formaldehyde, no doubt) that I started feeling ill on several occassions. I worked at the school during the summer and they left the dissected carcasses in that room during the summer. It was terrible for us, since we worked right across the hall. I don't think the smell ever came out.

Through the course of school, we did owl pellets (and had to glue the bones together on a paper and digure out what they ate), earthworms, frogs, and then minks.

[Mongrel]

I worked at the school during the summer and they left the dissected carcasses in that room during the summer.

Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew. Ew.
*Hops from one foot to the other while repeating "ew"*

(I'm opposed to dissection not just because it's gross, but because it's a complete waste of life. When you're forcing kids to dissect, the majority are not going to remember anything about the inner workings of the animal; they're going to remember how unpleasant an experience it was. In higher classes, non-requirement-for-graduation classes, I can at least understand the idea of dissection as a tool for learning, even though I don't like it at all.)