Sweet Sailing, Sophmore Year!

Unfortunately couldn't think of a song that worked with sophmore year. If it was still freshman year I was talking about, I know a great Barenaked Ladies one I could have used, but...alas. Guess I won't have a nifty tradition of having songtitle entry titles anymore.


I'm fairly proud of my work and final grades this year, so I decided to brag. C: This is long (imagine if you were in Illinois and I was telling you all this) so I bolded the numbers so you can pretend you read it.)

In American Studies, I got a 98% on my "Final", and thus a 91% in the class. Just barely an A!)Instead of having a classic scantron exam, for second semester we had a very tedious but far more enjoyable project called the "museum project". Each group was assigned a decade, and each member chose two topics of intrest in that decade and had to link them to themes. We wrote a paper on one topic and then presented a short presentation on both. We had the 80's and I had 80's music and teen rebellion. Wrote my paper on the music and recieved a 48/50, the only points of were for the bibliography. If I had an honors teacher, however, I most definetly would have gotten a lower grade for all my silly mistakes. I spelled Sting as Sging, for goodness sake. e_e But anyway, the presentation was quite fun, and a picture of me is on Mom's Blog if you're intrested. I would have done better in the class overall, but I'm a very lazy girl and there was one week I just...I dunno...decided I was too cool for homework or something. :P I pity the fool who follows my example.

In Health I only got an 89% on my Final, but that's because I was at a point in the class where if I had turned in a completely blank scantron I still would have had an A in the class, so I didn't study. Which earned me a 101.2% overall. Yay.

I have to say, I was honestly disappointed with Math. Last semester on the final (gotta love multiple choice math problems for a class called Algebra 2/Trigonometry...thank you plug-and-chug) I got a 39/40 and knew exactly which question I got wrong. This semester I felt just as confident coming out, but still only got an 84% on the final. :\ C'est La Vie, I still got an 86.67% in the class, so I'm happy. Math was pretty hard this year.

Chemistry was my miracle. I prayed so hard for this one, and somebody up there loves me. Coming into Chemistry I was already scared for my life and honestly a bit worried I might not pass. Mom kept pushing me on, saying "if Emily could survive Honors Chemistry, so can you!". Thanks a lot, Em. ;) I studied crazy hard because, although I wasn't on the verge of failing, this was my teeter-totter class where getting below 60 on the Final would have brought me a C, and last semester I didn't do so hot on a final I was proud of. When I had the test in front of my I was not a happy duck. The first third was -okay-, the third third was kind of gross, but the middle third...it was math equations that I didn't even remember learning in the first place and no joke, I just chose the prettiest numbers. Apparently Chem teachers are very shallow and made all those pretty little numbers the correct ones, because I got an 88% on my final, my HIGHEST honor class score. Guys, Don't Doubt Heavenly Father. He created the laws of Chemistry, and so He's pretty dang good at it. Anway, that tender mercy got me an 86.75% in the class, which is more than I could have ever dreamed for.

Art makes me laugh. Really hard. The final was in four parts; one by Waubonsie, one was actually our most recent unit, and two by Miss Kinast, my teacher. The two for-credit question parts were crazy easy. She gave us all the questions we needed to know the answer for (with the answers). The unit was Printmaking, which is really fun, by the way. We only needed to make 5 prints and I had extra time so I turned in 6, so I got full credit on that. Then the last part was completely extra credit, where we were encouraged to find 26 artists, one for each alphabet letter, and memorize them. Half a point for white males, full point for women or minority. I just found a big ole' website of women artists and memorized the easiest. Anyway, I got 124% on the Final (no typo, I promise! One-hundred Twenty-four percent!) which got me 101.4% overall.

I was slightly disappointed in French. Not much to say here- I had a 92 in the class initially because some days I would miss homework and other days I would get low A's on the quizzes. Then I got a 92% on the Final because...I don't know why. But take a wild gander at my overall- yup, a 92%.

English isn't very exciting either. Our final is split into two parts, one that all the sophmores have to take (15% of the final exam weight) and then an essay on any book we studied this year. The scantron portion was so easy I could cry, by the way. I was worried about my essay, because even though my words were very pretty and it was quite well-written, Mrs. Peplow grades on content. I had good points and all (I wrote on how Daisy Buchanan's moral ambiguity caused the downfall of everyone and everything she affected), but I didn't have a good grasp for my assertions. All year Mrs. Peplow's been ragging me on assertions and, finally in the essay before this one, I figured it out and got myself a solid A paper. But I couldn't manage to find my assertions for this one, so I got exactly what I expected- an 85.2%. Okay, so I didn't perdict the .2. But I did expect a middle-range B. Anywhoo, that earned me a solid 88.15% in the class and I am a very happy girl.


Next year is going to be very different. First of all, it's Junior year, so that means I'm basically going to die. Second of all, I don't have advisory, so that means I have to actually do my math homework at home. I think I did that...four times this year? Maybe five? You'd be suprised what I can accomplish in 20 minutes. Oh, and did I mention its Junior year? So that = death? Yup...you guys all survived . Unless 'you' is still only me, rereading this thing, which I guess means I survived....so it still applies. That's uplifting.