Muse Academy Class Discussion
We’re still not 100% sure what Shadowkat has in mind for this thread, but let’s give it a whirl.
Date: July 26, 2011
Categories: Life, Muse Academy, The Musiverse
Saturday, 27 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
We’re still not 100% sure what Shadowkat has in mind for this thread, but let’s give it a whirl.
Date: July 26, 2011
Categories: Life, Muse Academy, The Musiverse
Well, unfortunately, there’s not a lot going on in this regard right now, but anyone taking summer classes is welcome to start the discussion early…basically, I think it’s safe to say that we all would go to Muse Academy if we could. Sooo…let’s pretend we can! This thread is a place to talk about classes that we’re all taking in real life, as though we were taking them at Muse Academy. That way, not only can we get some interesting and exciting discussions about the various aspects of academia going, but we can act like we all go to the same school.
We can also discuss any extra-curricular activities in which we may be participating. For example, mine and Jadestone’s colleges are competing in the same Quidditch tournament this Fall, so we’ll probably talk about that when the time comes. Happy learning!! =)
~Shadowkat
Are you on your college’s Quidditch team? Will you be competing against Jadestone?
I’m gonna try, depending on other financial/temporal commitments.
Oh man it would be so great if we could play against each other. THE BEST. In any case you definitely need to go along with them to the tournaments my team’ll be at!
But yeah! This thread will be great for talking about Quidditch and the exco-class I’m taking on The Hobbit and all the other shenanigans I am bound to get up to
Lol, there’s no way you all replied to that…Jaaaddddeeeee…*pointed look*
LOLWUT
forgot to change my naaaaame
twice
OOPS
Noice. :b
Hmm, I was taking a 3 week psychology course.
It was very interesting. I believe that Roseanne would be teaching it (since it involves living things, such as babies).
We had a lot of fun! Developement day was awesomesauce, we got to play with children’s toys all day!
I’m going to take a course on making lamps. I was supposed to take it this week, but the date got moved. I think it’ll be fun. Very nice teachers, quite Waldorfian actually, and the other class they’ve done so far got very positive reviews. They’re a little dis..organ.. ised, if you know what I mean (the head person informed me that the class’s date had been changed an hour before it was supposed to start) but it’s the first summer so it can be excused. It sounds very muserly–perhaps Lady Bunnifulian? I will let you know how it goes.
As soon as we have topics, reactions, etc. to these classes, discussion shall begin! ^_^
School starts on Monday. My classes this fall are Theatre, Wellness, English 1 Honors, and Concert Band. Spring Semester classes are Algebra 1 Honors, Physical Science, Geography, and Concert Band. I’m hoping to transfer from English 1 Honors and Geography to World Studies, but I probably won’t be able to.
The summer reading for English 1 Honors is killing me.
Oh, my classes don’t start for another three weeks (sigh)…but when they do, they’ll be:
1.) Medieval and Renaissance Literature
2.) History of Europe Since 1500
3.) Spanish 3
4.) Bible as Literature
5.) Leadership Seminar Series
6.) Latin
I’ll also be participating in the Society of Dramatic Arts (SODA), and perhaps Dance Evolution Motivating Individuals (DEMI). =)
FandH96 – What about your summer reading is killing you?
Yay Latin! I switched to French awhile ago, but I’m planning to switch back after graduation assuming I don’t change my mind before then about applying to Roman mythology/history MA programs. Which textbooks does your course use? Mine were from the Henle series, which had a strange obsession with sentences about Caesar and bodies in the river. o.O
My classes start Wednesday. This semester I’m taking Intro to French/Francophone Culture, Masterpieces of Russian Literature, History of the First World War, Cultural Anthropology, and Writing Workshop.
For extracurriculars, I’ll probably be in the history, anime, and book clubs.
So the classes i signed up for today are:
1. Foundations of Biology
2. Intro to Microeconomics
3. Intro to Environmental studies
4. Intro to logic
5. Health (mandatory)
6. First year Advising (also mandatory)
Lots of intros and foundations. It’s my first year, so that’s to be expected, but I kind of want to take a really random course. I don’t have the space, though. Plus I’m pretty satisfied with the courses I’m taking and don’t want to switch any of them out. Classes start tomorrow.
Hey, newbie here.
I’m taking right now:
Core Energy Practices
Introduction to the Healing Arts
Foundations in Healing
Clinical Herbalism
Welp, no more Latin (it would’ve been through my old homeschool program, so de-registering was no big deal) or Leadership Seminar Series…however, I am doing quite well in 3/4 of my other classes. I have fallen in love with Tennyson, and Victorian literature in general; Spanish is great, as always; and the Bible as Literature class has proved to be fascinating!!
The Medieval and Renaissance Lit., though…I’m currently hating that class!! Until “Everyman”, we’d been reading English from before even Shakespeare’s version! Like, old, old English!! And then writing papers on it. It was crazy. I still have one paper on Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” due tomorrow…10 PARAGRAPHS…because, apparently, we don’t count pages, anymore. :b
Anyway, that’s my update…I’ll try to do one per week. If anyone wants to chime in, btw, feel free to do so! =)
Pshaw! You’re nowhere near the old stuff yet, as Master Baker can attest. You’re in Middle English on the cusp of Early Modern. It helps if you can listen to recordings. Some words look strange yet sound familiar; with others it’s the other way around. After awhile you’ll pick up the patterns of where the major differences are, and then the reading will be much easier. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear: as one of my professors pointed out, one reason Chaucer seems more distant is because we read Shakespeare with the spelling cleaned up. There are many good reasons Chaucer is beloved by those who get to know him.
You might take a look at Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog to get into the right spirit.
Sorry for dp, but Eccentric: As I said above, I’m no longer taking Latin, but until now, we’ve had a couple of similar classes, with you taking History of the First World War, and my Victorian and Modern Lit. We’re currently reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”…it’s quite interesting.
I’m currently required to plan my classes for the next 4 years, although I’ll get to edit my plans each year if I want to. Well, technically, I was supposed to decide over a month ago, but my plans aren’t really due until the 31st, so I’ve been obsessing the whole time, because I’m excited.
Next year, I will be taking:
English 1 GT (I have to take English, of course).
Geometry PreAP (If you’ve taken Algebra 1, which I will have, you have to take geometry next).
Biology PreAP* (I have to take biology).
World Geography PreAP (Geography is mandatory).
Spanish 2 PreAP*
Choir (I have to have at least one fine arts credit for the 4 years).
Debate.
I’m sort of expected (although not required) to take a career-related class, so I sent an email asking a teacher about Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources asking if he thought it would have any relevance to my plans at all; ‘biological scientist’ and ‘conservation scientist’ were both in the list of ’15 related careers,’ but the fact remains that I have no interest in food or agriculture. I’m awaiting his reply. I highly doubt I’ll take that class, though, because if I do, I can’t take debate; I mainly asked because I was already sending him an email asking about classes I may take later. There’s a Principles of STEM, but I know for a fact that the class is really more like Principles of TE. I’m much more interested in S and M, particularly S.
*I’m excited about getting to take a whole class about biology, but I’m also nervous that I’ll already know much of what we’re taught. For those of you who have taken 9th grade biology, what’s it like?
*I would rather learn Latin, but I’m doing IB in 11th and 12th grade, and you have to take at least one of their language classes, and they only offer Spanish or French. They have a version of each for beginners and a version of each for people who’ve been learning the language for a certain number of years. I could either take 2 years of IB beginning French or 1 or 2 years of IB advanced Spanish, because I already know some Spanish and couldn’t take their beginner class. I don’t know enough for their advanced Spanish classes yet, so if I choose that, I’ll have to take Spanish in 9th and 10th grade, too. ((OOC: Normally, that would make me choose French, because I only want to take the bare minimum of foreign language classes so that I can take more classes about things like science, debate, etc, but in my district, they have a special name for students who take more than 2 years of the same foreign language, and colleges really like it, and I explained why IB is annoying and won’t let me take exactly 3, so I’m taking 4)).
GAPAs, would you mind too much if I made 3 more posts like this for the other years? I really want to, but this was long, and I don’t know if anyone will even read them, so I’m not sure if it would be polite.
GAPAs?
Go right ahead, Bibliophile.
Never mind, I don’t want to wait for a response, the next post is really short anyway; you’re not obliged to post it, but I’d appreciate it if you did. You’re also not obliged to post my previous comment, if you haven’t already by the time you see this; in fact, it’s not at all important to me anymore that you do. I would appreciate it if you responded about your feelings about the next 2 posts, though.
I forgot to talk about PE. I may do off-campus PE net year–or I may take the regular PE class because it’s a prerequisite for Outdoor Adventure Education in 10th grade. I doubt it, though. I hate regular PE classes. There’s a chance that I’ll be able to do it virtually, though, you see, in which case I’d seriously consider it.
In 10th grade, I will take:
Either English GT and AP World History or World Humanities. World Humanities is a combination of those classes, and you get both credits. I’d love to take it, but I don’t know if it’s actually offered at my school or not.
Algebra 2 PreAP (required)
Spanish 3 PreAP Dual Credit
Chemistry PreAP (required)
Communication Applications (speech, 1 semester, required at some point in the year)
Small Animal Management (which only lasts one semester but looks really fun!)
Debate 2
Er… can I assume that the fact that that was posted and there were no objections means I can continue?
By the way, if I can take World Humanities (which actually, to be precise, isn’t a combination of the classes I mentioned but of that history class and English 2 PreAP, but it doesn’t matter), I’ll have time for an extra class, which will probably be either Theatre Arts 1 or Choir 2, depending on how much I liked Choir 1.
Grade 11 ((OOC: This will be at a different school.)):
IB English 3 (required)
IB Math Studies or IB Mathematics (I don’t know the difference yet, but I have to take at least one and don’t want to take both)
IB Spanish 3 (already explained)
IB Biology 1
Physics PreAP (required)
AP US History (required and in my case online)
Environmental Systems (which seems easy but exciting)
IB Environmental Systems & Societies (I know nothing about this but the title, but that’s enough to make me sign up)
IB Theory of Knowledge I (online, required, and really exciting)
13.1.1: Yay, thanks!
Grade 12:
IB English 4 (required)
AP Calculus, unless you can take AP Statistics after IB Mathematics (I know you can’t after IB Math Studies), in which case I’d do that
IB Spanish 4 (required)
IB Biology 2 (my dream class)
AP Environmental Science
Scientific Research and Design (There’s no title for this, but it uses honors grade points)
AP US Government and Politics (one semester, required)
AP Economics (one semester, required)
IB Theory of Knowledge (online, required)
I really, really want to also take Aquatic Science. However, that depends on whether I’ll think I can handle 2 online classes in addition to 7 offline ones and Creativity/Action/Service Requirements again plus a massive Extended Essay requirement.
Actually, if I take IB Physics in 11th grade, I won’t have to take PreAP Physics. More importantly, I’ll get to take IB Physics 2 instead of IB Spanish 4, which will be much more fun.
I also found out about World Humanities. It exists, but it’s online, so I’ll have to see if I’m ready for that by 10th grade. I hope so. Also, I know for a fact that I’m doing off-campus PE next year.
So my 10th grade electives will either be debate, SAM, and CA, or all those plus theater and choir. Probably.
…Actually, it doesn’t exist. That’s a pity. I can’t take theatre or choir that year, then.
Have you looked into AP Human Geography? I feel like it might interest you.
Thank you very much for the recommendation, but unfortunately, my district doesn’t offer it.
It couldn’t hurt to put in a request.
Can you really just ask whether your school can start offering a class? Whom would you ask?
You could also put in a request to take it as an independent study course!
If a cool science or history teacher mentors you it shouldn’t be a problem.
I have finally found out what was meant by the oxymoron “Modern Medieval History”. I signed up for the class because it looked like the least objectionable of the freshman seminars I could take. It’s a class devoted to modern retellings of medieval stories. And guys…it looks awesome. More specifically, Monty Python and the HOly Grail is required viewing. As is a book on Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, of all people. And this book called, Medieval Outlaws, like Robin Hood except real. So basically for this class I just have to watch movies, read books, and then write compare/contrast essays on them compared to the original retelling.
My other classes: I’m taking the continuations for Intro to Biology and Intro to Environmental Studies. Biology this semester is more focused on genetics. My new professor seems like he’s tougher, though. And I need to buy a clicker for the class. I didn’t need one at all last semester…I was kind of hoping I wouldn’t need to get one at all.
Environmental Studies…The class is smaller, this time around. and my professors appear to be taking a more holistic approach. Our first homework assignment is to spend 20 minutes observing and reflecting on the world and then writing about it. I might have done that today but it’s been raining horribly…
The final class I’m taking is Arabic. (202) It’s the class I’m most unsure about. I really don’t know if it’s the right level for me. I went in on my first day and knew pretty much everything we covered, but on my second day I bombed horribly. Mostly with grammar. I figure that due to the…unique…way my Arabic learning has progressed so far that’s going to be typical of the class. There will be things I learned years ago, and concepts I’m expected to know but never heard of. At least I don’t have to spend a lot of time learning vocab. I looked at the vocab list we were given and knew all but 2 or 3 of the words. It’s funny–in Jordan I felt like I was drowning under the language and that there was no way I’d remember anything…but I absorbed more than I realized until I came back and realized how ahead I was.
Remember that whole long post I made about my high school courses that probably none of you actually read? Well, now that I’m going to an early college high school with very different options, it kind of fell out the window. Really, it’s my fault for applying, which is the equivalent of defenestration in this case… But anyway, it means I get to choose my courses again! That excites me, but it annoys everyone around me. They don’t want to hear me ramble about what I’m doing again, and I don’t want to keep it all to myself, so I’m afraid I’m subjecting you all to it now. Classes are 2 semesters, for high school credit only, and at my high school instead of the campus unless otherwise stated. We hardly get any electives, but I get more than most because I’m ahead in Spanish. I’m also ahead in math, but that doesn’t make a difference because I want to keep taking it for 4 years anyway, not because I enjoy it but because I know I’ll have to take Calculus and Statistics in college if I don’t in high school, because of my career plans.
Grade 9:
English 1 PreAP
Geometry PreAP
Biology 1 PreAP or dual credit, college level Biology 1 if I’m very lucky
World Geography PreAP
Spanish 2 PreAP
Learning Framework: First Year Experience (1 semester, dual)
Kinesiology (1 semester)
Introduction to Computers
Service 9
Grade 10:
English 2 PreAP
Algebra II PreAP
Chemistry PreAP
World History Honors and World History to 1492 (dual) (each 1 semester)
Intermediate Spanish (dual and on the college campus)
Introduction to Theatre (dual)
Kinesiology (dual, 1 semester)
Introduction to Speech Communication (dual, 1 semester)
Service 10
Grade 11: Composition and Rhetoric (dual, on college campus)
PreCalculus (dual, at college)
Physics 1 (yes, on-level, unfortunately–that’s what they teach, and I can’t do college physics because that has calculus as a prerequisite, which is a pity because it’s likely to be required for my major when I do real college)
United States History to 1877 and Since 1877 (each 1 semester, dual, at college)
General Chemistry (dual, at college)
General Biology (dual, at college) if not taken already (which is unlikely because even if I can do college bio in freshman year, I might have to do the class for non-majors, and since I want to major in biology or one of its sub-disciplines, I’ll have to taken the version for majors eventually no matter what)–if it has been taken, I’ll do Environmental Science (dual, at college) instead
Fundamentals of Creative Writing (1 semester, dual)
Technical Communications (1 semester, dual)
Environmental Biology (college credit only, which means elective! Finally! And at college)
Service 11
Grade 12:
Survey of British Literature: Anglo-Saxon Times to Mid-Eighteenth Century (dual, on college campus) and English 4B
Calculus (at college, dual, second semester is an elective)
Stellar and Planetary Astronomy (each 1 semester, dual, at college)
Statistics (dual, at college, elective)
Academic Cooperative in the Biological Science/Life Science (1 semester, at college, college credit only, elective–basically, undergraduate research with faculty! Community college faculty, not real scientists, but still)
Organic Chemistry (college credit only, at college, elective)
Environmental Science (if not already taken, in which case I’d take Physical Anthropology and Wildlife Conservation and Management–each 1 semester, college credit only electives at college)
American Government: State, National, and Local (dual, at college)
Macroeconomics (1 semester, dual, at college)
Advanced Historical Analysis (1 semester, dual)
Internship (1 semester)
Also, I learned what we might get to actually do in service today, and it’s really exciting! I might get volunteer at a nature park learning about the organisms there and helping them, which is how I’d like to spend my life, not just my Fridays. I’d certainly prefer Fridays to no days, though, until I can become a conservation biologist/field ecologist full time many years from now. Anyway, even if I don’t get to do that, I might get to do living history, which is almost as awesome. Even if I can’t do that, I might be able to help at a veterinary clinic. Even if I can’t do that, I might get to help teach adults to read! There are just so many awesome options it’s delighting me.
Bibliophile: Maybe we should shorten your name to “Biophile.”
That would be an awesome name/abbreviation/thing. You know, I actually have something that I call “Biophilia and Bibliophilism” because it connects the two, although I don’t think I’d be allowed to tell you what it is. I haven’t done anything with it in ages, though.
Speaking of which, I really need to read Edward O. Wilson’s essay, “Biophilia.” I’ve read his book of the same name, and I loved it, but I haven’t read the essay yet.