My English teacher just gave us back our research projects, mine which I did perfectly. Everything about the project was perfect, uniform, themed, and overacheive-atized. I would have had 107, the best grade in any of her classes. Mine was a model project...except for one thing...I forgot to cite one single "fact," which I even put in my own words, on my biography paper, and my teacher, who used to be my favorite, gave me a 70 on the ENTIRE PROJECT!

On an essay I wrote for my portfolio, I proceded to make the teacher feel as terrible about it as I could, by saying how I always thought I was a good writer, and how this would forever scar my academic career.

So now discuss your opinions on school, and how much plagarism blows goatse.

Your teacher is that retarded?

Tell her that more than one person can think of a similar phrase.

I was just about to make a new thread about my final project in school, but I saw this.

We work all year on this "portfolio" which we present in front of several community members and teachers. It has to last 15 minunets. Mine lasted like 14:27.
Some old bitch community member gave me a 0 on that part, and everybody else gave me 80's. So i would have had like a 90% overall, but becasue of her i got like an 83%

dumb ho woman

Hmm. For once, I actually kind of like school.
It's just that now I know how boring it is not to go.
It's a lot more fun to spend the day with friends,
and not have them at school while you're home.
Even if you do have to do work. [;

Plus, my english teacher makes us turn in essays about three times, and the last time is the final copy. So he can tell you anything you're doing wrong. Of course, I don't usually have that problem, but if I did make a mistake, at least I'd get a warning. But it's a little annoying when you're actually having to turn it in again and again...at least to me it is.

Wow...now even my English teacher would not do that and she's pretty strict for a regular English teacher. Anyways, that teacher must be a bitch to grade you 30 points down just for not citing one source...obviously she had something up her ass while she was grading your paper.

Yeah teachers are retarded like that. Last year my school was so stupid, being in 7th period lunch there weren't many people we knew in our lunch room. Our table had 11 people which was apparently 1 over how many they allow. My table never does anything wrong or gets in trouble and the whole year up until about April no one had made a fuss about us. We didn't even do anything wrong and all the sudden the made us exclude someone (Yes, the school made US exclude someone) from our table and they had to sit with a bunch of 7th graders all the way across the lunch room. Then our whole table got lunch detentions because we told them how wrong it is that they made us exclude someone from our table.

Not only was a violation of your freedom of speech, but that's just harsh placing one of your friends to sit with a bunch of 7th graders.

Hah, forget to cite one source in my english course and BAM: Instant zero on that project, and your name is submitted to the office.

They seriously report you to the office?

Plagiarism has become very serious these days...scratch that, it's very serious shit...to them at least.

i now officially hate school
and youve been in school for how long now?

I've been in school for nearly ten years. That's long enough to make a judgment.

Anyhow, the teacher was being actually fair. There was no way I could argue that I did it right, I just see now that I made a hardcore mistake. She said she did it to teach me a lesson for the future, because I'll get a 0 on the whole thing if I plagarize again. I know she's serious, too, because that just happened to my brother, who is a junior this year. But her giving me such a poor grade on that project brought me down to an 89.45 in that class, so now I have a B for my six-weeks average with two more days to bring it up. On the bright side, anything I make that's above a 90 will push my grade past an 89.5, which rounds up to a 90. If I can't bring it up, that will be my first B in that class this year, and it's kind of a big deal for me to make a B in English, even Advanced Placement. Luckily, we just turned in our portfolios, and mine was a teacher's wet dream on steroids, and I did extra credit for it, AND I didn't plagarize, so I expect a nice, firm 110.

Anyhow, this teacher was one of my favorite teachers, too. She wasn't strict and she was always nice and very lenient about everything else. I'm one of her best students, I answer all of her questions right, and I peer tutor for her class sometimes. I guess that's why it was such a shock to me.

I actually don't hate school. As a matter of fact the reason I do so well in school is because I like it, and I like learning and being with my friends and girlfriend. Occasionally there's a downside, like a tedious and uninteresting project, or a crappy teacher, but for the most part I love it. Especially English. We just got through reading Romeo and Juliet. I didn't think Shakespeare was nearly as hard to read as everyone says it is, and I thought it was one of the best stories I've ever read.

That grade still pisses me off, though.

:goggles: :goggles: :goggles: :goggles:
(j/k)

Don't make him bite his thumb at you.

oh please not that!!!

I bite my thumb, sir, but not at you, sir.

do you bite your thumb at me sir?
i do bite my thumb sir
do you bite your thumb at us?
(to freind) is the law on my side if i say aye?
(freind) no
no sir i do not bite my thumb at you sir but i bite my thumb sir
(freind) do you quarrel sir
quarrel sir? no sir
but if you do sit i serve as good a man as you...
i watched the movie alot as a child

Haha, have you read Romeo and Juliet as opposed to watching the movie?

I've read it, the movie usually leaves out some parts that the book had.

which one?
i thought the one with guns copied it line for line...

The old and the new movie did not include the part where Paris and Romeo duel at Juliet's deathbed scene.

its that important?

I don't know...but they still excluded some part. It would have been nice to see what that scene would look like on the big screen.

true...

My English teacher just gave us back our research projects, mine which I did perfectly. Everything about the project was perfect, uniform, themed, and overacheive-atized. I would have had 107, the best grade in any of her classes. Mine was a model project...except for one thing...I forgot to cite one single "fact," which I even put in my own words, on my biography paper, and my teacher, who used to be my favorite, gave me a 70 on the ENTIRE PROJECT!

On an essay I wrote for my portfolio, I proceded to make the teacher feel as terrible about it as I could, by saying how I always thought I was a good writer, and how this would forever scar my academic career.

So now discuss your opinions on school, and how much plagarism blows goatse.
Your English teacher is the equivalent to my History teacher.

youre the equivalent of my dog on speed...

The new version of Romeo and Juliet was okay, but Leonardo DiCaprio and most of the other main actors didn't know how to recite Old English lines and make it sound good. The scene where Tybalt kills Mercutio was confusing, too, and the end, where Juliet wakes up as soon as Romeo drinks is much more dramatic, as opposed to where Romeo dies before Juliet wakes up. The way that all the actors dress was totally lame, and Benvolio was the wierdest looking thing I've ever seen. Tybalt translated pretty well, though.

Anyhow, I still wish Paris and Romeo could have had a shoot-off in the churchyard or the tomb or something. Wait...was Paris even in the new movie?

Yeah he was...he only showed up a little bit, not much actually. Paris isn't really too much of a main character in Romeo and Juliet I think.

Oh...my English teacher doesn't know how to organize her time, so we only got to watch little clips of it, rather than the whole thing, because we had to move on as quickly as we could.

Now to be quite honest, the movie looked much better in the previews than it actually was.
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Woohoo! Monday begins our last week of school! And we get half-days Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Sorry, random thought.

I was just about to make a new thread about my final project in school, but I saw this.
We work all year on this "portfolio" which we present in front of several community members and teachers. It has to last 15 minunets. Mine lasted like 14:27.
Some old bitch community member gave me a 0 on that part, and everybody else gave me 80's. So i would have had like a 90% overall, but becasue of her i got like an 83%
dumb ho woman
ahahahahhahahaa

I'm glad I don't have to do those anymore.
I still have my portfolio from last year though, I think I might add to it

We don't have to present porfolios until our senior year at my school, and then it is a HUGE deal, almost like the SAT. We have a professional from the carrer we plan on pursuing, a teacher of our choice, and a parent volunteer that we have to present to. I'm not sure how long the presentation has to be, but I've seen guys go into the presenting room with binders thicker than my neck times two.

I've read it, the movie usually leaves out some parts that the book had.Romeo and Juliet is not a book.

Romeo and Juliet is not a book.
Fine it's a play...or a Tragedy if I want to be more politically correct.

or a Shakespearian masterpiece loved by thespians worldwide

Sure...that too.

sureth .eth .eth . eth thateth tooteh.eth

I hate romeo and Juliet my english teacher always goes on about it saying how good it is

eth

Noeth?

shhh eth.

ok ill stop now

Yeah...that would be a good idea.

OK, im in that class, trust me, he is overreacting

Whatever! You didn't get dinked a bunch of points from a perfect project.

Bollocks! Sam, didn't you do that project on Dorian Grey? Or was this the other one? Whichever one that was that sucks.

I got 10 points taken off my research paper because I used a contraction.

Bollocks! Sam, didn't you do that project on Dorian Grey? Or was this the other one? Whichever one that was that sucks.
No, no, no this was one I did on Edgar Allen Poe. The Dorian Gray project isn't going to be a research project. Just a project.

ahahahahhahahaa
I'm glad I don't have to do those anymore.
I still have my portfolio from last year though, I think I might add to it
they fixed my score though. They fixed everybody who had that panel because those community members were ridiculous. I now got an 93%, good enough for me.
schools finally out as well
we are done with finals so im going to skip the rest of the week =)

woo....

I had my biology final yesterday (got an 88...grr...), Algebra and World Geo finals today, tomorrow I have English and Keyboarding, and Friday I have Soccer (we get to go out and play for 1.5 hours), and Spanish. We get 1.5 hour periods at two periods a day and then we get to go home at noon on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week.

So I'm pretty excited.

fun....
ive got a japanese exam in the last week of term (about 3 weeks away)
thats gonna be fucking pissy

I can pretty much respect any native English speaker who learns Japanese. That language looks hard like nobody's buisness.

I suppose they say the same about English.

yeah... apparently, english is the hardest language to learn as a second language...
although i suppose Chinese it just stupidly hard

Apparently American English is more difficult to learn than any other kind of English. I've heard that Swahili is pretty damn hard, too. As a matter of fact, French is one of the easiest languages to learn for a native English speaker, but not nearly as many people across the globe speak French as they do any of the Chinese dialects, English, or Spanish.

If a person learns English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese, they can communicate with one of every three people in the world.

That's cuz English has so many exceptions and anomalies and until I started to learn Spanish I didn't even realize how screwed up English is. And supposedly if you learn Spanish you can pretty much speak with any Italian or Portuguese person too because the languages are so similar.

learn Latin..... half of the worlds known languages evolved from Latin....
including English!

i have been doing french for around 10 yrs at skool and it is hard

No, no, no this was one I did on Edgar Allen Poe. The Dorian Gray project isn't going to be a research project. Just a project.

Well it still sucks.

OH! That's right! And you got extra points for it.

Yeah, it's cool. I think I've got a decent grade in that class now, like a 92 or a 94. I get 10 points added to whatever score I get in that class when my GPA is calculated anyway, since it's a pre-AP class.

Anyway, modern English is a combination of the original Anglo language, Nordic, and Latin. Most nouns are from Anglo and Norse, but a lot of prefixes and suffixes come from Latin, as well as verbs (for example, 'tener/tiene' in Spanish means to have, and in English we have maintain, obtain, retain, which all have to do with posession).

Also, Italian is the most closely related to straight-up Latin, as Latin evolved first in the city of Rome. Spanish is a close Latin dialect mixed with Moorish (Arabic) languages from when the Moors invaded Spain between 500 and 700 AD. Portuguese has pronunciation rules very similar to English, but most of their words are more closely related to Spanish (for example, 'boa' in portuguese and 'bueno' in Spanish mean the same things, but the infinitive forms of their verbs are written differently). French is the least closely related to Latin out of all the other Western European nations (besides German) because they got invaded so many times by the English, Italians, and North Africans.

English is more closely related to Dutch languages like German than any others, interestingly enough.

Whoa...what was that for?

I felt it was necessary, and it interests me, and I like to talk about it.

.

Here's my view on languages.

Chinese is MUCH harder than Japanese, as there's an actual ALPHABET for Japanese. However, Mandarin Chinese is actually one of the easier Chinese dialects to learn. Shanghai is probably the hardest one.

As for the guy who's been doing French for 10 years and still finds it hard: I've been doing it for 3 and I can already understand my teacher.

However, English is always the hardest language to learn for anyone who isn't born in a country like Australia or USA, as the "rules" for English grammar are broken so many damn times.

and how!

Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn. The only difference between the structure of English and Spanish is that the adjective always goes after the noun, and the object goes before the verb. Example: Yo (I) te (object form of you) pego (I form of hit) means 'I hit you'. That and the words often change completely when you say them in past tense, and there are all these different forms of verbs and such. For the most part, though, English can translate literally into Spanish.

or a Shakespearian masterpiece loved by thespians worldwide

Dude. Romeo and Juliet is the most hated of Shakespeare's plays. For us actors at least. It's extremely overdone, and poorly done. I have never seen a good Romeo and Juliet. Which is sad because Mercutio is so awesome. Oh, and there is one Shakespeare play that is worse... the cursed play.

On the subject of school, I have gotta start doing homework. All the zeros are dragging my grades down.

I like Hamlet the best.

I don't care about how the acting is or how it looks on the stage. I like the stories.

Yeah, Hamlet is pretty deep. Classic tragedy, and the skull monologue is so damn good. My favorite is probably The Winters Tale, because I got to play Autolocus in it.

I plan on reading a lot of Shakespeare along my academic career, but so far I've only read four. Of those four, Hamlet was my favorite, but Romeo and Juliet had the best message/themes.

French is very similar to Spanish. It's also really easy except the pronunciation catches a lot of people off-guard at first, and there's a bunch of weird stuff too, like the fact that they don't have separate words for "his" and "hers".

It's the same in Spanish with the his/her thing, except the pronounciation in Spanish only differs from English in a few different ways.

japanese has the name word for his and hers
its called "の"　(pronunciation "no" as in knob)

a sentence using that would go like this
ぼく (<my)　の (<possesive marker)　ぺノ (<pen)　は (<scentence marker)　あお (<blue)　です。 (<fullstop)
translation = my pen is blue.

Mi boligrafo es azul.

To me that seems easier. Also, Gussa, it only appears as symbols on my computer because I don't have a Japanese language pack.

It's very easy: Mi means my, tu means your, su means his or her, and nuestro means our. Just add s on the end of any of those to make the object plural.

Mis boligrafos son azules.

oops.

It's okay. I never hope to be able to understand Japanese.

I finally completed my damn research paper...that's a good bit of work finally off my back.

What did you have to research and did you document all your sources correctly?

I had to research on Ernest Hemingway and how he influenced American Literature. I used a works cited page to cite the sources and I got the sources down with notecards. My teacher wanted the research paper done in a certain way so I just did it that way.

i just got a new jap assignment....
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