Group projects. What do you learn when your teacher places you with three of the dumbest girls in class and a guy you find annoying? Well, if you're anything like me, you relearn why you always do every project alone, and you learn that you could have easily completed the project alone.
In my English II Honors class we are reading Lord of the Flies and my group has to do a project on chapter seven. Since, for reasons unknown, most of the girls in my class are ditsy and obnoxious, I am the only smart girl in my group for the project. No, I am not being conceited, I am saying my intelligence by far surpasses theirs. When we were reading Fahrenheit 451 one of the questions on our pre-reading assignment was "Define censorship in your own words." This particular group of girls behind me were discussing the assignment and the dialogue was in the most sickeningly revolting voice "What's censorship?" "I think it has to do with your senses!" "You mean like taste? And touch?"
I kid you not, these girls are in my honors class. I have never been so disappointed to be an honors student.
Anyways, the project is split to where out of 100 points, 10 are a video, 15 are for vocabulary, 25 are for in depth notes, and 50 are for the essay.
We gave the three girls the job of the video, which between the three of them, they will probably shoot, and ask one of their dads to do the editing.
We were in class discussing how we would split up the work and the boy and I were trying to decide how the essay should be done and which of the two of us should write it.
As a girl with a Gothic style I get some unusual stereotypes. I swear, without missing a beat, one of the girls says to me "Something about the way you look makes me think you are a really good writer." Thank you teenage girls, for allowing me to lose my faith in humanity once again.
In my English II Honors class we are reading Lord of the Flies and my group has to do a project on chapter seven. Since, for reasons unknown, most of the girls in my class are ditsy and obnoxious, I am the only smart girl in my group for the project. No, I am not being conceited, I am saying my intelligence by far surpasses theirs. When we were reading Fahrenheit 451 one of the questions on our pre-reading assignment was "Define censorship in your own words." This particular group of girls behind me were discussing the assignment and the dialogue was in the most sickeningly revolting voice "What's censorship?" "I think it has to do with your senses!" "You mean like taste? And touch?"
I kid you not, these girls are in my honors class. I have never been so disappointed to be an honors student.
Anyways, the project is split to where out of 100 points, 10 are a video, 15 are for vocabulary, 25 are for in depth notes, and 50 are for the essay.
We gave the three girls the job of the video, which between the three of them, they will probably shoot, and ask one of their dads to do the editing.
We were in class discussing how we would split up the work and the boy and I were trying to decide how the essay should be done and which of the two of us should write it.
As a girl with a Gothic style I get some unusual stereotypes. I swear, without missing a beat, one of the girls says to me "Something about the way you look makes me think you are a really good writer." Thank you teenage girls, for allowing me to lose my faith in humanity once again.
