[tracynguyen94]

Woooooo-hoooooooo!!!!

Class of 2012!!!

Let's talk about the courses selection for next year (2009-2010)

What do u think of the way High school teachers' teach??

What is your dream right now or future????

You can discuss every possible topics u guys can think of about High school!!

These questions i posted below were the questions that our soompi members of the class of 2012 wanna ask.. This will make it easier for the new people that comes to this topic and know what was going on

#1. List your classes for next year + this year

#2. Do you guys have Spirit Week? And did you guys dress up?

#3. Was high school what you thought it would be, or completely different?

#4. what is your school's mascot?

#5.What do u think of the way High school teachers'teach?

#6. What is your dream right now or future?

#7: what's your school colors?

#8. How many credits do they gives you per class?

#9. Do you guys have portfolio?

#10. Do you need certain credits to pass the freshmen year?

#11.What do you think makes your high school special?

#12. Where would you want to go for the Senior Trip?

#13. Does anyone wish that they can go back to middle school and slack off?

#14. How do you like your counselor this year? Do you find having a counselor helpful or useless?

#15.Anyone ever feel like there's never enough time now that you're in HS?

#16. Thinking about summer school? why or why not, if so what subject?

#17. is anyone here part of the International Baccalaureate program too? (wat??!!??)

#18. Who in here is part of the Junior National Honor Society program?

#19. When does school end for you?

#20. Have you skipped class? if so, how many times?

#21. What books did you guys read this year?

#22. Did you guys take this year of high school seriously?

#23. What are you planning to do this summer?

These questions will be updated!!!! Thanks you for keeping this topic updated

[emceej]

wooot! finally a thread for the freshmens!
i was gonna make one but i was scared lols.

anyways, this year has been a tough but fun year(; it was definitely a big transition from a middle schooler to a high schooler. my teachers are great. i can't ask for a better one =D but i'll def miss them next year cuz we only have 4 months left till were almost sophomores *sigh*

my dream right now is to get into nursing. but my absolute realistic goal right now is to get all 4.0 throughout high school so i can get a free ride to one of the CSU's. so far, im on the right track 8)

here's my list for next year's term :
AP Psychology
AP World History
Algebra 2
Dance 3-4
English Honors
Chemistry
Spanish 1-2 or Piano 1-2 or Guitar 3-4 (not sure yet D: )

thankfully we still have a month or two left to decide our schedule.

[xBonnie__]

i'm glad freshmen year is almost over!
its not like i dont like it, i just dont want to be look down as the little freshman.

i dont know what courses im taking next year cuz im so indecisive.
but i know i'm definitely doing graphics and spanish honors.

highschool is so amazing. i absolutely love it <3

[emceej]

techincally, we only have 3 full months left ><;
cuz us there's only one week of june and no school for a week on april (spring break)
it seems like yesterday it was registration D:

i'll def miss my freshmen teachers :/

[indigo sky]

O: A freshmen thread! Haha. I feel like we're going to get pulverized by the upperclassmates at any given time, haha.

What's everyone's schedule like? I have Honors English 9, Honors Bio, Honors Geometry, French 2, Health/Computer Operations, and PE.

So, I believe my school's going to start our registration next week, maybe? Or the week after, but my schedule is already pretty set:

Honors English 10
Honors (AP? I'm not sure if they're offering it as an honors or an AP class) Chemistry
Honors Algebra 2
French 3
AP Euro
PE

The transition from junior high to high school was kind of...a wake-up call, but I'm just not motivated for school really. I feel like I'm just bs-ing through it all, and personally, I don't want that. I want to fix it...but no motivation. Ugh. If there was one thing I could change about my teachers, it would definitely be them motivating students. I mean, half of my teachers just sit there and give us work (English, Computers, Science, but it's a good thing I like English and Computers). How the heck would we find the will to succeed? The workload is only going to get worse, and I am definitely not look forward to that. D:

I want to work somewhere in the language department. I think it'd be pretty cool to be an English teacher in Taiwan, or a graphics designer for some sort of company.

Other questions to think about?
1. Do you guys have Spirit Week? And did you guys dress up?
We definitely had Spirit Week, and we ownedddd. Haha. We tied first with seniors for the skit, second for spirit and all the decorations and things, but then we got fourth for canned food drive (....XD). Spirit's huge at my school, so, we all for the most part dressed up lol.

2. Was high school what you thought it would be, or completely different?
Mhm, more or less for me. I knew the work was going to pile up, but I was freaked out about upperclassmen for a while, but they just ignore freshmen, so it's all good. Haha.

[xBonnie__]

meteorstarbb829: freshmen year has passed by so fast. such an amazing year. and omg, i will miss my freshman teachers too! they were amazing and soo funny. i love teachers who are so close to the students up to the point where they swear in every sentence haha. aww you're lucky =( i have like 2 weeks in june. but hey, we will have more days off due to upperclassmen testing (:

indigo_sky: i am so jealous of you. taking so many honors. i am only taking one right now and i'm still deciding if i should. i mean, i know i should pick a level that is just right for me but i really want to challenge myself. but good luck with those classes! and registration has already started for me. i actually thought the transition was pretty smooth. junior high definitely prepared us for it. and it was far from what i expected. so much better!

spirit week was such a fun week. and yeah, a lot of people do it because we love our school a lot <3 wooot go tigers!
what is your school's mascot?

[Christinaisweird]

a thread for us!

English 1A
PE 1
Health/DrED
Spanish 1
Biology
Geometry


I'm pretty sure that during the summer I'll be taking summer school.
Either PE or Alg. 2
gosh, right now I'm just concentrating on my grades & definitely passing the Fitness Test for PE or else I have to take it all 4 years


As for classes for next year I can only decide so far cause if I am taking summer classes my schedule would be different. But for sure I am going to be taking 7 periods next year


what is your school's mascot?
Falcons, Home of the Falcons ! weeee!

[morningfix]

Was high school what you thought it would be, or completely different?
High school was, high school. No other word for it. It wasn't as a big as a transition for me as people made it seem. But overall, more freedom was given, and that's a big plus. Social wise, nothing too big is going on. I'm honestly at the moemnt just trying to focus on education period. Nothing more and to bring my gpa up. Our school is pretty lame anyways, our events are hardly huge or anything.

Let's talk about the courses selection for next year (2009-2010)
We just chose our classes for next year. I'm taking
Honors English II
AP World History
Honors Physics
Math II
Spanish II
Intro to Health Care Science
alternatives if class is filled would be 2D Art Drawing/Painting or Child development.

What do u think of the way High school teachers'teach?
Its different for every teacher. Some of them are just wonderful and teach me a lot. others just throw work at me and expect it to be done at a certain time and the we get tested on it. I like some, I dislike some. But one thing, they definitely don't baby you like the teachers did in middle school.

What is your dream right now or future?
Its kind of far off, but I'd love to go to Stanford. It's hard to get in and costs a lot. I'm more worried financially. I would like to be a pediatric oncologist. If that doesn't work out my fall back is a pediatrician.

What is your school's mascot?
Eagles. And the school is called Eagle's Landing High school.

[tracynguyen94]

meteorstarbb829: OmG!! What school are u attending??? I want to have dancing class on my schedule 2 ...."AP classes" :head spinning: =]]
We alrdy finished picked the classes we wanted for next year.. but the counselor let us to make changes until may or june. I got to admit that it was a huge transition for me. HS is more independent, and freedom but more works and higher expectations!!!
xBonnie: So am I!! Glad that Freshmen year is over cuz i have the suck--est teachers. Read books and copy notes is like the main thing we do in class!!
indigo sky: What's everyone's schedule like?
Accelerate geometry + Accelerate algebra 2

Accelerate English

Academic Government and laws (not my interest)

Accelerate or Honor Bio. (undecided: my teacher put me in accelerate but from now till the end of the semester. If i'm improving myself, she will move me up to honor bio.)

Academic spanish 1 (probably 2)

The last class i have to take it after school: Beginning Chinese
I tried to double up most of the classes, so that i can take Honor and AP classes in my junior and senior years.

1. Do you guys have Spirit Week? And did you guys dress up?
I think we had Spirit week but not dress up

2. Was high school what you thought it would be, or completely different?
ermmm.... It in between for me.. Most of my friends is upperclassmen, so they kinda helps me around the school. I actually don't have many homework to do ) cuz. most of my stuff gets done in grade room.

Christinaisweird: what is your school's mascot?
Our school mascot is [b]royals!!!
Land of opportunity.. WOOO HOOO!!
goodluck in the summer school!!!

Do you guys have swimming class???
Well... I have 2 weeks of swimming class and my PE is my 1st block!!!My entire body will smell like CLOROX :sob: but it not start 'till may

[b]lissardface: What is your dream right now or future?
Something involve in medical

[morningfix]

lissardface: What is your dream right now or future?
Something involve in medical

Same here : ) You don't have anything specific in mind yet?

[tracynguyen94]

Same here : ) You don't have anything specific in mind yet?

Not really!! I'm still doing research about it >.<

[emceej]

1. Do you guys have Spirit Week? And did you guys dress up?
yeah we had spirit week ^^ it was really fun. there was nerd day, mix it up day, pajama day, switch it up day...uhm i forgot the rest xD but it was really interesting. i didn't really dress up though i just participated on the nerd day

2. Was high school what you thought it would be, or completely different?
it was completely different from what i imagined. i thought it would be like the ones in movies but uhm...it was really fun.

3. What is your school's mascot?
my school's mascot is lions (:

meteorstarbb829: freshmen year has passed by so fast. such an amazing year. and omg, i will miss my freshman teachers too! they were amazing and soo funny. i love teachers who are so close to the students up to the point where they swear in every sentence haha. aww you're lucky =( i have like 2 weeks in june. but hey, we will have more days off due to upperclassmen testing (:

ahh! yeah. i will definitely miss those kinds of teachers. i feel comfortable with my english teacher cuz he's like my friend and dad at the same time. he has that personality where everything is a joke but there's also a time for seriousness. and uhm...he's so comfortable around us that he can just cuss around ahahah

meteorstarbb829: OmG!! What school are u attending??? I want to have dancing class on my schedule 2 smile.gif ...."AP classes" :head spinning: =]]
We alrdy finished picked the classes we wanted for next year.. but the counselor let us to make changes until may or june. I got to admit that it was a huge transition for me. HS is more independent, and freedom but more works and higher expectations!!!

i'm currently attending a Art based high school. that's why we have more fine arts than other schools (; oh really? we didn't get called up yet and im glad cuz im still deciding :/ i know! i feel the same way XD high school was great. the upperclassman def picked on us but ahahha it's our turn next year so it's all good ! jk ~~

i'm currently taking these classes:
ACC Biology
Computers
Guitar 1-2
Avid
ACC English
Geometry
Dance 1-2

new question!
what's your school colors?
ours is purple and yellow. lakers colors haha.

[tracynguyen94]

i'm currently taking these classes:
ACC Biology
Computers
Guitar 1-2
Avid
ACC English
Geometry
Dance 1-2

Wow.. Such a huge accomplishment... moving to all AP classes Your mama must be proud of that ) lol

new question!
what's your school colors?
Purple and Gold

Do you guys have portfolio?

Do you need certain credits to pass the freshmen year?
Ours school expect to have the minimum of 135 credits to pass the freshmen year...

[emceej]

we do. we have a portfolio for our art stuff cuz many art universities look for that so they push us to make one. hahaha. i want to major in art but at the same time....i want to become a doctor ><; im still confused with my life. we'll see in a couple of years =D

no, we do not need credits to pass freshmen year. all you need is a D or better. but to graduate high school, you need 240 credits in all 4 years and stuff like ROP and summer courses at city colleges count. i still haven't done my community service hours. i was planning to do them this year but the library was full. i wasn't old enough to work as a volunteer at the hospital. nor am i not that interested in beach cleanups ><; i'll do mine sophomore year cuz i can't do them over the summer. (going on a vacation) but im sure that i'll suffer mega hard cuz im taking APs next year ><; plusss drivers ed >:O

random but they changed the age limit to get the actual license here in CA.
i could get my permit next year though.... aigoo.

[xBonnie__]

3. What is your school's mascot?
my school's mascot is lions (:

new question!
what's your school colors?
ours is purple and yellow. lakers colors haha.[/font]

Do you guys have portfolio?

Do you need certain credits to pass the freshmen year?
Ours school expect to have the minimum of 135 credits to pass the freshmen year...

my rival school's mascot is lions! haha. but tigers are always better <3 (jks!)
and my school colors are orange and black.

for my school, you dont need certain credits but you just need to pass all your classes.
and i need a minimum of 100 credits to graduate.

wait, since you guys need so many credits.. how much credits do you get in each class?
i get 2.5-5 credits. mostly 5 credits though

my courses this year:
intro to physics I
spanish 2 I
freshmen core p.e.
sexuality & health
math SIMMS I
culinary arts exploratory
visual design & comm. exploratory
world history I
english I

and of course study hall.

[emceej]

^we get 10 credits in each class a year.

[tracynguyen94]

meteorstarbb829: REMIND: Doctor makes more money lol
How many credits do they gives you per class?
--We don't needs to do community service but if you do those stuff.. it would looks good on your college application.
man, your school gives so many credits )

xBonnie: how much credits do you get in each class?
5 credits for each class.
AP classes have 7.5 credits
I think: 2.5 credits for grade room

My currently courses: (Mostly Academic )
Academic English 9
Accelerate Algebra 1
Academic Social studied
Academic General Science
Beginning Spanish
Grade room
And my LUNCH =]]

I'm working A$$ off to move myself up

Edit: Total minimum credits required for graduation is 135 credits

[indigo sky]

xBonnie__
I wanted to take it easy next year, but my parents are like x_____x "take honors chem!" So I'm pretty much killing myself over by taking all these classes. x_x I heard Honors Chem is math-based, and it's also the central science, so, ick. >< And then AP Euro, we have to take a lot of notes. So, that really sucks. D: Yeah, I think it's good to just find your own level, but challenging yourself is always good too. Maybe you could go for another honors class? You never know. Haha (:

School mascot and colors
HUSKIESSSS (: orange and black, haha. We're the oldest school in the city, so, we used to be called the Cornhuskers. Hahaha.

Credits
We get 10 credits for two-semester courses, 5 for one semester courses. Students usually get 60 credits per year, since we only have six periods in a day. The graduation requirement is 230 credits, but we end up with 240. We also need 40 community service hours to graduate. And we have to take like, 3 years foreign language, 2 years fine arts, 2 lab sciences, 3 math courses, 4 english, 2 (or 3? i forgot) history classes, 2 years pe, to meet the requirements to apply for UC schools.

[emceej]

man, lucky for all ya'll who don't need community service.
but still, it would look good on the portfolio. i've done 1 so far and it's almost the end of the year x____x
it's gonna be pain next year >:O

actually, i want to become a nurse. i heard most of them make more than doctors.(well if you have experience and the types of stuff you have a degree on) idek. im still deciding. totally confused with life. i don't know what i really want to be....yet :/

[xBonnie__]

tracynguyen94
1 credit - gym (it's required to take two different gym classes each year)
1 credit - gym
5 credits - english
5 credits - world lang
5 credits - history
5 credits - math
5 credits - science
2.5 - Arts/Hands On (culinary, photography, art, graphics etc.)
2.5 - Arts/Hands On
for my school, you dont get extra credits if you do AP or Honors. lol.

indigo sky lol yeah, i want to take it easy next year too. and i dont want to take honors just because i want to look good for college so i;ve decided not to take honors spanish =/ but good luck with your honors =) i think im going to take honors in junior year when i feel more prepared, y'know? and also, we have the same colors for our school =)

and for my school the following classes are required:
20 credits for english (4 years)
10 credits for science (2 years)
15 credits for history (3 years)
10 credits for math (2 years)
7 credits for gym (4 years)
5 credits for Arts/Hands on (1 year)
foreign language isn't required.

but of course that doesnt add up to 100 credits which is our minimum.