I have barely any summer homework, but I’m lazy and I haven’t started! (Even though I’m halfway through summer)
IB English HL: Read and annotate Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Yes, it’s only 200 pages!) and write a 3 paragraph reaction afterwards.
AP Calc BC: Complete a packet that 17 pages but has 2 problems per page!
@Faultystart I LOVE Catcher in the Rye. We read it this year in Honors English 10 and it was my favorite book we read all year, and probably one of my favorite books I have ever read.
@athenanv13 I LOVED Frankenstein. We read it last year in English 3 Honors and it’s definitely one of my favorite books I’ve read, it really hit a soft spot in my heart, and the Creature is one of my favorite characters. (:
@KE3299 It sounds really good, and I’m kinda upset that we won’t spend much time talking about it.
@Faultystart yeah we spent a couple of weeks on it, and even had a project where we got to write an extra chapter anywhere we wanted in the book, using Holden’s voice and language and it was my favorite project we did all year. I had so much fun with it. Catcher is definitely a great read! I’m sure you will enjoy it!
@KE3299 I totally agree with you! The Catcher and the Rye is amazing!!! I read it in 9th grade and it’s definitely one of my favorite books!
@KE3299 @athenanv13 Agreeing with you both! I loved the book; we read it towards the end of this year. Didn’t do a project though (projects ruin everything tbh)
@ambers58 My English teacher last year (10th) wanted to do projects instead of exams. I would have totally gone for that option, but when he did that one year he got in trouble.
@Faultystart @ambers58 Yes, more often than not projects do ruin everything. My teacher this past year had us do a project and a test for every book we read, so we definitely had our fair share of both. I normally hared the projects especially the group ones, the Catcher one is probably the only one I actually enjoyed doing!
We had a group final for APUSH… It was terrible.
The prompt was to write a white paper on reducing poverty in America. This means an endorsement of government scholarship in a comprehensive paper. My group was filled with the misfits of the class, and like two really smart people. The group had 7 people.
This was our final.
We wrote the paper. I stayed up for the three days before the test writing ~30 of the 50 pages of the paper. Two of the people wrote two pages the morning before it was due. It was terrible. The essay was atrocious. One kid didn’t capitalize the E in English, like whattttttt do you not go to school!!??!?! Lest to say we got an F.
Rewrites
I gave up on rewrites and sent a text in the group message that was alone the lines of “Hey guys I’m not going to be editing your part. I got sick the weekend after because of my 8 hours of sleep in the span of a 96 hour time period. So edit or I’m telling Mr. [name here] that you didn’t do your work.”… Morning of, I’m up at 4 editing everyone’s part. They worked on it but still, it was just bleh. So for three hours I worked on it with my other friend haha.
I got sleep that night though cause I had a precalc final that determined if I took Calc AB or BC (Needed a 95+, got a 97!). The essay ended up getting an A- but he had to average. He was nice with the averaging, gave us an 83 instead of a C lol.
So I hate group projects/essays.
In English 9th grade we had this end of the year projects that was worth 200 points or so, around 1/4 of 4th quarter grades.
I got stuck with the 3 boys who did practically no work at all. Our project was to write an essay on advertisements, create a storyboard for a commercial, a product, a powerpoint and a print ad, within a week or so.
It too all three boys the whole week to take the picture for the print ad. The whole week. I did everything else. It was terrible. The was the week before finals and I was already slammed with work from Bio Honors (like, what does reading and writing an essay on a book about fruit flies have anything to do with what we learned? Nothing.) and my other classes.
Needless to say, I didn’t sleep much.
To some extent, the only reason I like group projects is because people actually choose me as a partner or group member, even though I know they chose me because I’m smart…
I hate teachers who do that… My engineering class had one of the best systems, though. Basically, the Introduction to Engineering course at our school provides college credit and “ap weight” toward one school in particular in our state, the University of South Carolina. The exam is really hard and has little to do with what we learn in the class, so basically there is a ridiculous curve, and if you score a 7, 8, or 9 on the exam (I got a 7!) you get a 100 in the gradebook as your final and can send in to get engineering credits. We also had a big end-of-year project, though, where we had to reverse-engineer mechanical pencils or pens. The higher of the two scores you got counted as your final exam grade.
It was a good system for two types of people: more academic people, and more hands-on people. Definitely a system that I think other classes should at least TRY to do, rather than pushing one or the other.
I actually like group projects, when with a group that will work. In AP world history this year we had a group project that was worth 250 points. The project was a debate, and it was okay. One person in my group did basically nothing, but everyone else worked hard.
We did that too! The class was split in half, though, we didn’t really have small groups or anything. I’m not too into group projects, I tend to be more productive and work better on my own, even if I can have friends in my classes… As the years go by, though, group work is less and less stressful. As I take more challenging courses, people seem to have more initiative and are more collaborative and willing to help out. I had really no trouble with group projects my sophomore year, and I had a lot.
I have mixed feelings about group projects, but for the most part, I can’t stand them.
I love group projects! For me, they’re way easier than doing projects by yourself. At least, you could split the work so that it is less stressful! And thank goodness we live in an age where everyone has cell phones, so that if one person isn’t doing the work, you can text them and tell them to do their work.
@athenanv13 But it’s when the people in your group don’t do their work until the very last minute or do just an OK job on it that you have to do it yourself. Splitting up work hasn’t worked very well for me anyways haha.
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself”
Group projects suck if you know what you’re doing more than everybody else and you’re a bit of a control freak (even if other people do their work). I love it when I’m working with smart people though; I actually learn a lot.
I really dislike group projects because I usually have nice ideas, but no one wants to hear them. 
But at the same time, I like them because if I’m in a good group, we contribute equally and share cool ideas.
Group projects are the worst!! I end up doing all the work and so once when my English teacher let us rate the other kids in the group, of course I took the chance to degrade them. There is no way someone who did absolutely nothing will get the same grade as me while I suffered (my health, my time, my life).