My College Classes
Health
Health was a class were, well just learned about us the humans the ways of communication, Relationships, the human reproductive systems, and about drugs. What was pretty much done was everyday was a new lesson, a new chapter in a book that was handed out to us. We would learn and concentrate on one topic for about two th three weeks. We would go for some review, have a big assignment then it would be test time. Mr. Ruthledge our teacher, was a good teacher and made everything easy to understand and learn. Then right before a test we would have a big assignment that went with whatever it was we learned to help us research more and get a better understanding. Then it was the test and everyone would feel confident on what it was they had to remember and do.
Counseling
Counseling was a class, not necessarily counseling because we had problems but it was to get help on helping to get a good job in the future and would help you know what it was you would want to be when you were grown up and ready to have your own life. In this class we would learn about communicating on getting help, for say job interviews and etc...We would learn about what characteristics and what type of person could have a chance of getting a certain job. Our teacher Mr. Bullrice would have power points ready everyday, and everyday new note had to be taken; notes that would help you in his future exams and in the future, so you would go back and thing what it is goods steps were needed or which were good. We would get ideas and problem solving steps that would help whenever needed. We would also do activities on what type of person you were and what you would like to be and he would help us into choosing what we wanted to be. Counseling is a good class and its good that it is mandatory to take this class in our school because it really helps.
Art 2
This is one of my most favorite classes i looked forward into going to. Art is my favorite subject and its what I love. In this advanced art class we get to work with many styles of art. We learn how to better ourselves and express ourselves through the world of art. In this we got to work with normal sketching,black and white, and working with colors by using art supplies such as pastels. We learned much about Value, Contrast, and Hues. Our Teacher Mrs. Desarei was a great teacher and made art fun and enjoyable, having fun while improving our art and learning new things. We would work in the old fashion way drawing by hand, then we would get more into depth with technology. Every assignment that was given to us would have a critique, not to say how bad it was but to say what was good and maybe what needed help or improvement. This was done for every class, we get an assignment we do it then we critique and if better improvement was needed we would do other assignments related to it. That is pretty much what we would do in art.
Music Appreciation
Music appreciation was all about music and learning about what it did in this world and all the good and bad it would bring with it. We would go back in history and listen to music from different eras such as the Renaissance era, with love and religion. We learned about many different types of styles in music such as jazz, rock, or pop. Everyday we would come into class and we would start out by taking notes on famous artists that brought whatever type of music with them and made it popular. Then after taking a few notes we would listen to a song, memorize it, the author and the name of the song. Then after the song, notes would start on a new famous writer, and the same thing again listen to a song and memorize it. When our teacher thought we all had it in our heads it was test time, a test would be planned ahead of time and we would take a test, written out, then we listen to a couple songs and say what the name of the author and song was. This is what was done daily for our Music Appreciation class for the semester i had it.
Speech
Speech was a communications class teaching us all about the different styles of speech.There were many such as public speaking, or just speaking with a person you have a certain relationship with. We would learn problems people have towards communication such as a fear for public speaking. We also learned how to speak to a crowd of people or just talking to someone face to face such as in a job interview. Everyday as we would walk in throught the classroom door we had to take out a piece of paper and take notes on what our teacher had to say. Nothing would be written out so everything was just focusing on his voice and taking your notes. Only visuals were made by him, very rarely they were made. Then out of a book that was handed out to us the students, we would do assignments that were given to us, there was no turning in assignments late so you had to do what was done. Then we would take exams based on the assignment that we did. Speech is a good class that has helped me out because it has helped my for my fear of public speaking.
Athletics- Yoga
Yoga, was the class i had; in ECHS its between having yoga or self-defense. Yoga was what i got, ECHS has college P.E. so we don't have normal P.E. like most high schools. In Yoga it is the same daily routine, we go in class and wait patiently. After that we sit probably from 5 to 20 minutes, it depends. From there we do fire exercises, they are done to get the body warmed up and ready to go, it involves doing breathing exercises and doing fast movement. after that we keep going and do exercises called earth postures, that involves balance, like standing on one foot or just stretching side to side. Then come the wind postures which are exercises that involve working a bit faster, then we go into water postures. The water postures are smooth flowing exercises. Then when we're all done and tired we go and do a space posture. A space posture is an exercise which involves no movement at all and just relaxing, on is the corpse posture. We do this posture to finish off our exercises, we lay on the floor and simply go to sleep for about 5 minutes; we then all get up stretch and time to go.