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In reply to the discussion: What was your Favorite class in Jr or HS school? We had the disliked, now let;s do the class you couldn't wait to [View all]electric_blue68
(15,409 posts)I went to a specialized Art & Music HS, so I had plenty of Art classes.
I loved the oil painting part. Like ceramics a lot though I wasn't too good at it. 😄
There was a cool graphics design, and Illustration kind of class that did much of the HS's yearly magazine. And I did my first Artist made book there! Acordian style. 👍
We had some good History teachers.
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In JHS we had Art classes, including one where we did art for the yearly magazine.
We had a nice Science Teacher. Looking back on it I don't know how unusual it was then (but it seemed ordinary to me then) but the teacher was a black woman.
Anyway the worst thing was when she opened a container of what I called "swamp water". Omg! Half the class moved to the back to get the least of the stink! 😄
She placed a drop on the slide, and we each went up to look through the microscope.
I still remember I saw a paramecium!
The coolest thing was a machine that would split water (H2O ) back into it's components: Hydrogen & Oxygen. Each gas would be sent through a nozzle to which a balloon was attached.
Because there was Twice the Hydrogen (H2) than Oxygen (O) the hydrogen balloon inflated twice the size of the oxygen balloon. Fascinating. 👍
The most usual thing were our language classes. In 5th & 6th grade top class we had a French teacher. Didn't like her so turned me off to learning French.
I wasn't interested in learning Spanish. But we had a third option...
No, not Latin, but... (and this was 66/67)
Russian! Yeah, Good ole Soviet Union Ruskie! 😄
Now my dad was First Gen Ukrainian-American. I know the language was similar so I thought we could exchange some talk. He grew learning English first (I think), he did speak to his dad in Ukrainian. If he learned Ukrainian first; he never had an accent.
I also wasn't aware yet that many Ukrainian-Americans hated the Soviet Union. But my dad didn't say anything I remember.
Russian has three ?tenses: masculine, femenine, and ? nuetral (n). So an extra there 😄 plus learning the Cyrillic Alphabet. A bit of a challenge!
But I did well got somewhere in the 80's range.
Didn't continue bc the Specialized HS only had Spanish, or French.
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