What were your favorite classes in school? What class(es) would you like to take now?
Of course I loved Art class with Mrs. Catlett. (hey, another C) She really turned my life around.
I liked humanities with Mrs. Carson (wow, C again)
One of the classes that I think helped me most to prepare for college was Expositions with Mrs. Packer. Even though she seemed a bit scattered sometimes, her emphasis on getting the details in your writing helped me to be the only person in the incoming Freshman class at Columbia College to test out of English 1. Mrs. Braun told me that my scores were very good on the grammatical test but all of the faculty was very impressed with my essay and the detail in it. (As I look around this room.... All of the students were all in the cafeteria testing and I wrote about specific people, i.e. Will North Dakota farm girl Darla be able to handle the homesickness to be the first person in her family to graduate from college?) Another fun thing about the class was playing "Dictionary", the original version of Balderdash. The person who had the dictionary would find a word in it and then write the real definition while the rest of us made our own up, just like Balderdash. Wish I had translated that class game to the money making commercial one!
I HATED math. Thank goodness we were only required to have one year of math for my graduating class (the requirements upped the next few years). I took Algebra with Mr. Baylor. I don't know how I ever stayed awake in that class.
I think I could have liked science, but it was so much about memorization (those periodic tables) instead of learning how things worked or why.
