Hormones, Homework, and Hot Lunches- Period One

Saint Razorblade wrote:
Period One: Biology

Biology is a unique class. I sit for most of the year in the front. It is taught by Mrs. {Venezuela}, or Mrs. {V}. She is both insane and brilliant at the same time. A good way to start off the day.

That was a bit choppy, I suggest trying to merge a few sentences so it flows better.

I love biology. Picking things apart to find out how they tick is mind-boggling. Science has always been my favourite. I like investigating things. [s]Miz[/s]Mrs. V delivers just that. We do some awesome labs. She teaches us genetics and heredity by having us create strange marshmallow creatures called Reebops. We get a first look at DNA by extracting it from strawberries. I still know how and sometimes do so out of boredom. We even make our own fossils. [s]Miz[/s][color=red=Mrs.[/color] V is amazing. She often makes us do the labs before teaching us the lesson. Trial-by-fire stuff.

the Miz thing bothered me a bit, Since you already called her Mrs. I think you need to stick with it.

The work is a challenge. I enjoy challenges. Miz V is a real scientist, so she nitpicks our lab write-ups like no tomorrow. I’ve always done well on these, until Miz V got her hands on them. I often got calls from {Ralph} and {Erica}- and the occasional conference call on speakerphone- to discuss homework.

My classmates are awesome, if not a bit irksome. Honours freshmen. Well-behaved, but overly-analytic at times. The stupid questions they ask make me want to choke them. Miz V handles it spectacularly. I made a note to study her teaching methods fully. Might be useful for the future.

We spend second semester teaching the class ourselves. We pick a topic, research it, and teach it to everyone else. I pick Cultural Barriers to Science. In other words, how morals and law and religion and such get in the way of scientific advancement. My presentation comes second-to-last. The majority of people do slideshows. Boring, drab slideshows. I start my lesson off with a slideshow- but mine is fake. Just to break the ice. I start an open-floor discussion and give out candy to those who volunteer. My lesson is a huge hit. I get a C because I didn’t hand in a lesson plan.

My lesson is somewhat marred by the doubling of our class size. A long term, long hated substitute down the hall allegedly slapped a student. She handed in her resignation the next day. Her class is combined with mine. Cue final exam cram session. The substitute’s teaching has been lackluster at best. The horror stories are endless. My best mate- who suffers bad asthma- had an attack in her class once. She couldn’t breathe. The teacher {Miz R} would not let her go to the nurse. My mate went anyway. Miz R is the talk of the school until the end of the year. Go figure.

Miz V adopts a green flotation Noodle towards the end of the year. She whacks it on the desk of anyone sleeping. It makes a sound like a sonicboom. It evolves into a half joke half threat thing. {Ralph} is obsessed with it.

I end the year with a high B; 87%. Go figure.


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Nice. I know you said you didn't need me to review anything of yours, but I would feel really guilty if I didn't.

This is cool. Your teacher sounds great. I'm not a big fan of science myself. I really only like astronomy, the rest I get confused with in the basics.

The DNA and strwberry sruff sounds neat. I'd love to try it, but I'd probably muck it up. But I will suggest it to my science teacher!

nice piece
very funny and interesting.
i love biology the experiments are so cool.
i extracted DNA too, but from our own human cheek cells.
i would love to see the marshmellow creatures

well, i had a pretty stinky bio teacher, so i DIDN'T enjoy it. oh well. nice essay thingy.

This was really interesting! Couldn't find any mistakes. Actually, I have biology for period one too, and I found a lot familarities (ouch spelling) between what I think and what you said! I don't like biology though. I find it boring....

But really good. Too bad you got an 87.

miyaviloves wrote:-Would have liked to have known a bit more about the Reebops here, they sound interesting ^_^

-*often

Anywho, i liked this, quite simple and funny. But i would liked to have seen some more showing, you tell a lot, especially in the beginning and it would have been nice to have had a little more description of what these things were.

Hello, I'm criting this AS i read it, so if any things sound stupid at the beginning it might be because I didn't understand it till the end :\ but anyway here i go

Biology is a unique class. I sit for most of the year in the front. It is taught by Mrs. {Venezuela}, or Mrs. {V}. She is both insane and brilliant at the same time. A good way to start off the day.

She teaches us genetics and heredity by having us create strange marshmallow creatures called Reebops.

She oft makes us do the labs

Just to break the ice. I start an open-floor discussion and give out candy to those who volunteer. My lesson is a huge hit. I get a C because I didn’t hand in a lesson plan.