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Eighth grade is so amusing~

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Warning: May contain nuts
My school started a while ago, but this is the only time I feel like I know the classes enough to make a decent thread on them and am not too lazy to actually do so.

Schedule:

Homeroom - Mr. Olson (a science teacher, but everyone just spends fifteen minutes or so in homeroom every day and I don't get him otherwise)

1st period - Ms. Blaquiere - Drama/Speech

2nd period - Mr. Balderson - Band

3rd period - Ms. Moore - Math

4th period - Mr. Adkins - U.S. History

Lunch

5th period - Ms. Benton - Language Arts (some of you may call this English)

6th period - Ms. Ehle - Science

7th period - Ms. Farquhar - Reading

I don't think all of my female teachers are unmarried, but I have too many teachers now to bother being picky about whether they're a Ms. or a Mrs. and they're too busy to notice (or they just don't particularly care).

We have math homework every night (it's a weekend and I still got homework), but the teacher is nice enough for me to put up with it. She taught me about binary numbers, which was kinda cool.

Right now in U.S. History we're studying Native Americans. I personally am studying the Apache, but there are other groups that everyone else is doing: the Cherokee, the Arapaho, the Sioux, the Cheyenne.

Language Arts is amusing. All the old class are in it, and the old class knows how to have fun. More elaboration later.

Science is also fun. I've known Ms. Ehle for a long time, since she coaches teams for a sport. No, not football or anything, a brain sport, known officially as 'Brain Bowl,' known by my stepsister as 'geek convention.'

I like our reading teacher's method of teaching. We get to work entirely at our own pace, which is nice. She gives us a list of assignments and tells you to do them in any order you feel like, with a few exceptions like things that are on worksheets she has to give you and not on lined paper. We can read for the whole hour and she'll let us. We just have to have all the work done by the due date. It gives us the independence that the advanced class needs, and it's awesome. Oh, and she lets us borrow National Geographic magazines.

And now for the corner of humor:

Ms. Benton: What are some ideas for your 'How I Became' essays?
How I Became an Emo!
How I Became a "Chicken" Fajita!
How I Became a Housewife!
How I Became a Nudist!
How I Became an Oscar Mayer Wiener!

Zane: How do you spell Oscar Mayer Wiener, anyways?
Ms. Benton: My balogni has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R...

I suggested the first two, Zane suggested the last three.

*everybody in science gets Chinese fortune-telling fish for an experiment*

Everyone: *holds it in palm* ...Mine says I'm in love!

*Logan keeps on bursting out "BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN" while working on his All About Me brochure for reading*

Alec: *sarcastic* If you love Big Rock Candy Mountain so much, then why don't you draw that as your picture that describes you?

Logan: :D *draws Big Rock Candy Mountain on his cover*
 
All female teachers change their names to 'Miss! Miss!' anyway, so I'm sure it won't matter!
 
Fun fact: Ms. is neutral. Miss is the unmarried form. They are pronounced differently, too.
 
why do you use a full stop after Ms. in Britain people don't use full stops after Ms
 
In Britain, in theory, you don't use a full stop when the last letter of the abbreviation is also the last letter of the word, as in Ms and Miss. But really most British people, like most people, write anything and take no notice. I do not know how this fits in with what opal said. Probably Miss is an unused long form of Ms, and a separate word at the same time. But since I'm becoming more and more a descriptivist every day, it doesn't worry me in any case.
 
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Lol 8th grade. The time where you still had 8 classes, where you (and that I mean our school) couldn't carry your backpacks and had to go back and forth to your locker, and where you could poke fun of 6th graders because they're so damn short.

Then you go into 9th grade and everyone's enormous.
 
Then you go into 9th grade and everyone's enormous.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my friends, who skipped a grade and will therefore be a senior next year.

DJ: All the upper class in high school the freshmen fresh meat. Do you know why?
Me: ...Because you eat them?
DJ: Pretty much.
Me: Well, you're going to be a senior, so do I get to call you rotten meat?
 
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