Zinni's Side of the Computer Screen

It's been a while, hasn't it? My junior high experience has been fab! I love it so much more than elementary school! Here's the play-by-play

Periods 1-2: Humanities in Depth. This is the most challenging class,  but it is one of my favorites! It's called a block class, so I have it for two periods in a row instead of just one. MLA citations, taking notes on news articles and watching the news on TV at home, and two tough, no-nonsense teachers. They are really creative with their teaching, and my parents really like them, too.

Period 3: Leadership 7. It is such a fun class! We are already planning things for Spirit Week going from October 9th-12th. It's great that I have it right after HID because it's a break

LUNCH :) :)

 

Period 4: Life Science. I actually really like it! My teacher reminds me of a teacher that I had in elementary school. The curriculum is good, too!

 

Period 5: Math 2. My teacher is probably the best math teacher that I have ever had. He is great! Math is probably tied for my favorite class, and it's because he is such an awesomeazing teacher!

 

Period 6: Drama. Okay, so this is my least favorite class. I just don't like the teacher very much, and it's way too long of a story. However, a lot of the stuff we do in there is pretty fun, and I am in the class with lots of my friends.

 

Homeroom: I go back to my fourth period class for homeroom. I like it because I am in homeroom with people that I'm not in other classes with. It's great because I can do a little bit of my homework at school.

 

My bus is so much fun! All of the kids are silly and love to laugh! Junior high is such a fun adventure, and I can't wait for more!

 

To Rhodo: I hope you're having just as much fun as I am at junior high! How great is it? Everyone down at Raider Junior High says hi and misses having you in classes!!!!!

 

This is it from my side of the screen,

 

-Zinni :)



School Spirit (Which School, I'm really not Sure)

Yeah, it's me agian. I guess I just couldn't wait for Zinni to take her turn. This week was "spirit" week at school. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday there were spirit days...
       Wednesday brought back "old" memories of Elementary school days. It was "wear-your-hoodie-backwards-day" (officially, no, but that's what you end up with when the day is named "inside out and backwards day").
There's a back story going on here: You see, in sixth grade, this kid started to wear his hoddie backwards, along with a large amount of the fifth grade class and a handful of sixth graders. The fad lasted about two weeks, but I had flashbacks all day.
      Thursday was Raider Day. No one has spirit days where you dress up in your rival's colors. I mean, sportsmanship is a good thing, but asking the whole school to show pride in someone else's colors, I don't think so. Almost everyone called it Raider day- I even heard it from a teacher or two. It was officially checker bored day- where you're supposed to wear red and black so the whole school would look like a checker bored. Really, it was Raider day.
     Friday. Friday, Friday, Friday. It was traditional "dress-in-your-class's-color-day". Ninth graders wear white, eighth graders, grey, and sevvys- maroon. MAROON? Really. We lost that spirit day. And, it was my first pep-assembly. It wasn't really my cup of soda pop. Though, they only happen once a quarter, so I'll live...

In the "Experience"

There hasn't been much that hasn't happened in my so-far JH experience. Just as Zinni, I have a top locker, for which I am glad. Here's my schedule:

1) Debate- When your brother is two grades ahead of you, you don't expect him to walk over to you on the first day of school to tell you his schedule changed and now, you share first period. Yes, that's right. My brother and I are taking a Debate class together! AND I sit next another eighth grade friend of mine, for which I am very excited.

2) Math- My math teacher is so awesome! He has the first 1,000 digits of pi memorized, or so I've been told.

3/4) Language Arts and Social Studies Block- My teacher for this knows a lot, and he goes off on these really interesting "bird walks" about interesting things. He's big on words, something that doesn't quite "suit my fancy", however, I suppose it'll do me good...

5) Life Science- This class is normal- except that there's this emergency shower in a room just off of the science room that looks like a hanging triangle from the ceiling and, if you pull it a bunch of water gets you soaked. And, there's an "eye washing" station, which I hope I don't have to end up using.

6) Family and Consumer Sciences- This class is awesome and I liked it the moment I saw it. There are seven kitchens in one classroom and no desks. It is awesome for 6th period because it's right outside my locker, and I don't have to store leftover food in my backpack. We made chocolate chip cookies the other day (except, I'm weird and I don't like chocolate so I didn't add the chocolate chips). It was so AWESOME! My group is equally fantastic.

...And then I drift off to Cross Country.

Sevvy-dom

Raider Junior High: A place filled with smart people, athletic people, musical people, annoying people, nice people, gossipy people, friendly people, outgoing people, slightly odd people, and let's not forget lots of acne. You have your sevvies (the seventh graders), your eighth graders (with no special name), and your big, intimidating, don't-mess-with-me-bro ninth graders. I already love this world, and the bus-let me tell you-the bus is DEAD SILENT in the morning. It's great because everyone is only about 80% awake. This year, seventh graders didn't share lockers! My locker is only a few feet away from my homeroom, and it is a TOP LOCKER! I was really excited. Here is my super cool class schedule:

Periods 1-2: HID (Humanities In Depth. It's really exciting, and over the weekend I wrote an essay for it about Russian Civics. Oh yeah...!)
Period 3: Leadership (You get to help plan things for the school. Spirit weeks, dances, that sort of thing.)
1ST LUNCH
Period 4: Life Science (My teacher is hilarious! He told us on the second day of school that he doesn't "do" homework!!)
Period 5: Math (Meh. The class is not all that great.)
Period 6: Drama (with a 70-ish year old teacher who says "swaggin, man.")

That's all from my side of the computer screen for now! Zinni has to go catch her bus!

-Zinni