Most Memorable Homework?

[CoverYourHead]

Creative writing piece - Write about the apocalypse.

I played Fallout 3 for two hours without doing quests then wrote my story about those adventures.

I got perfect score.

Good times.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I had to read All quiet on the Western Front, and I was dreading to do so. So I put it off till the last weekend.

By the end of it, I was crying. What an amazing book.

 

[Fortunefaded]

During a home ec in second year we were tasked with making a new product with cheese and chocolate. I made chocolate covered wotsits

 

[dfphetteplace]

This morning I was thinking about in my high school English Lit class we were assigned to rewrite the end of Poe's The Pit and The Pendulum, since Poe himself was never happy with his own ending. My teacher was pretty impressed with mine, since he said it was the most realistic and closest to Poe's original work.

 

[SturmDolch]

My most memorable ones are creative writing... I love it, and I am good at it but I can never do it in my spare time for some reason.

This one exam just gave us a picture of a marrionette puppet, so I wrote a letter from one man in Cuba to another about how he's oppressed and controlled like the puppet. Ended up getting 99% and teachers coming up to me and saying I did a good job.

Or a take-home Essay we had in English, on a poem about fish. Everyone did a rush job and got crap marks, but I wrote a well thought out essay on "superficial fish", and how they were being superficial to each other.

Just last semester, in University now, I got a creative writing project to do in groups of two. I was able to do it with my girlfriend; I wrote a short story about a soldier in the Vietnam war and she interlaced poems into it. I believe we got an A or an A+ for that one. The professor loved it.

As for bad memorable homework, the Extended Essay comes to mind... Anyone here who has taken IB will know. Ugh. Or the Historical Investigation I wrote in Grade 11 on what happened to Switzerland during the Napoleonic Wars... Most of my sources were old Swiss books written in the gothic style, in German. Was hard as hell to research it but it did pay off.

And just last semester, again, I had to do an essay for Political Sciences. ~3600 words. That pissed me off; no one else had to do it. But the professor was such a cool guy that I didn't care as much. Still, I did a very poor job, just rushing it, and ended up getting a good mark again...

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

Year 7 DT - Look up what the word "Spangle" means. No joke turns out its a small metalic object

 

[Doitpow]

Back In my stoner days I did my gcse Chemistry coursework completely baked and got an A*
...zing!

 

[General Ken8]

The good kind of memorable-
Our teacher told us to write a creative writing piece about you as a super hero, and we had to read it out loud the next day.
I threw in a bunch of really suggestive sentences, and the teacher was wondering why everyone was laughing so hard while I was reading it. Good times . . .

The bad kind of memorable-
Last year, every vacation, our english teacher gave us a thick packet of incredibly pointless, stupid work to do. (Ex- Draw the protagonist at the beginning of the story, and at the end. Then write three paragraphs explaining why he/ she looks this way to you and how the character has changed.)

 

[cubikill]

In my collage english 112 class we had to write a 8 to 10 page argumentative/persuasive paper on the topic of our choosing. So I did How Star trek changed the world. My professor had never watched Star trek, but I still got an A, given a low A, but still.

 

[j0frenzy]

I had to read a Josef Conrad novel (Under Western Eyes) in one night. But that was do to my own retarded ability of reading a calendar.
Oh, the same professor gave us two weeks to read a Dostoyevsky book. That was annoying and challenging.
Favorite homework assignment: tied between watch Star Wars and writing an essay on superheroes.

 

[cubikill]

I had to read All quiet on the Western Front, and I was dreading to do so. So I put it off till the last weekend. By the end of it, I was crying. What an amazing book.

Thats funny, I did the exact same thing, with the same book. And yes it was amazing.

 

[noobface]

Year 7, Christmas holidays. History teachers asked us to write a story set in Rome, in the time period where Emperor Vespasian ruled. I missed the part about it being around 4 pages, and so after spending a good week on it, I turned in 21 pages of writing set around a year before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Got mentioned by the headteacher in a weekly letter, won an international competition with it, getting myself a glass paperweight and 40 pounds cash.

 

[Tri Force95]

Recently, we had to write a Fractured Fairy Tale for English, and a sequel to Finding Nemo (this was a joke, and only for extra credit). I chsoe Little Red Riding Hood for the fairy tale, and made the Wolf a detective, Little Red the killer. She kills the Huntsmen, burns her house down, and tries to kill her grandmother. Then she gets shot in the head.

For Nemo, I made him a crack addicted Rock Star.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Bring in an egg to school, Was 6 years old, My mum was clever and drained the egg out by using a needle to make a small hole.

The rest of the class brought in smashed up eggs and I was the only one with an intact egg

Teacher then procedded to use my egg in a demonstration, showing how an egg was impossible to break from the top with your bar hands. The point was to get us to understand the strength of certain shapes and structures etc.

She was an awsome teacher, she had two pet guinea pigs that she had in a hut in the classroom, she used to let us take it in turns to look after them and feed them etc. Can you imagine pets in classes now? HEALTH AND SAFETY, THINK OF THE CHILDEN, what if some poor child should get bitten? .....

 

[Trifixion]

But hey, those 16 were now pros, right? I mean I'd sacrifice a hoard just to get a dozen really really bright students, but that's just overachiever me talking here.

The point is that the professor was asking questions which should have been essay questions for post-grad students in a fundamentals college class and grading people based on randomly selected portions of the asked questions rather than the entire spread of asked questions.

Pros? More than likely the 16 including me were lucky in that the questions we managed to answer correctly were the ones he chose to grade more often than not. The guy was a stuck-up egotistical asshole teaching his first - and last - class at the college, and it was incredibly obvious to anyone who was attending any of his lectures that his entire purpose in teaching was to do everything he could to prove how much smarter he was than his students.

 

[yoyo13rom]

The point is that the professor was asking questions which should have been essay questions for post-grad students in a fundamentals college class and grading people based on randomly selected
portions of the asked questions rather than the entire spread of asked questions.

God! I don't know were my mind was, when I read your first post!
I initially thought the story was similar to one of my professor's. She gave us hundreds of exercises as homework, but then she gave us a dozen of them as pop quizzes, so she could test us. She always marked everything we wrote, but she never tested if we knew to solve every problem she gave us, because of not having enough physical time(she did select a random dozen of them, just to be sure).
I think I'm beating the bush here, with overstating the obvious. So let me simplify my idea:
-I misunderstood your story(now I got it right)
-I do believe that guy was a jerk for not doing his work right(to never leave stuff unmarked, never! people worked their asses off to do them right)
-I did have a professor like yours(he only marked one or two random problems, of the whole), but in the end he did gave us all 10's (or is it A's in your country?), even though not everyone deserved them
-hope you'll get a new not so dick like professor.
-and glad that justice was served!

 

[Custard_Angel]

Bring in an egg to school, Was 6 years old, My mum was clever and drained the egg out by using a needle to make a small hole.

The rest of the class brought in smashed up eggs and I was the only one with an intact egg

Teacher then procedded to use my egg in a demonstration, showing how an egg was impossible to break from the top with your bar hands. The point was to get us to understand the strength of certain shapes and structures etc.

She was an awsome teacher, she had two pet guinea pigs that she had in a hut in the classroom, she used to let us take it in turns to look after them and feed them etc. Can you imagine pets in classes now? HEALTH AND SAFETY, THINK OF THE CHILDEN, what if some poor child should get bitten? .....

Ah yeah... Pets... I brought in a box of spiders one day. Like... An aquarium sized box with a dozen or so arachnids... We kept them in class for about 2 weeks for everyone to see.

That would NEVER happen these days.