Question of the hour....

[conuly]

How is Ana liking high school?

Hard to say. She said the orientation rocked, she may or may not have made a friend (reports vary), her math teacher treats them like they're five, she likes her French teacher, and she's annoyed that English is called "Appreciating Literature" instead of "English" or "Language Arts".

So there you have it!

Comments

[novel_machinist]

Sounds like a normal teenager to me.

[brithistorian]

Well, it certainly could have been worse. The school must be doing something right, though, if she liked the orientation!

[cactuswatcher]

She said the orientation rocked

It may be a very long time since I was in high school, but this certainly sounds like the only unusual thing. It's good that orientation worked well for somebody, somewhere. I guess she was happy to find some school spirit.

[siderea]

she's annoyed that English is called "Appreciating Literature" instead of "English" or "Language Arts".

At the high-school level, "English" often is split into two streams, Literature and Language. Q.v. the two AP English exams. Starting about now, she should expect that "English" and "Language Arts" refer to how to write (or speak) English, in its technical details (grammar, vocabulary, compositional formal structures, rhetoric, etc), while "Literature" refers to the study of written art works in English, in their content (themes, purposes, contexts, interpretations, relevance, etc.) The first class will teach you, "this is what a sonnet is". The second class will teach you, "this is Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan' and btw Northern Ireland and the Troubles".

P.S. The later is typically considered the more advanced stream of study. If you only take one AP Eng test, you take Lit if you can (I did) because it gets you more/better college credit, most places.

[sabotabby]

Hey, sounds about as good as it gets.

We rename courses to make them sound appealing. "English" is one thing, but my courses are typically called "Communications Technology" in most schools, which make them sound way less fun and artsy than they actually are.