Stress! Stress! Stress!

For Tuesday, November 30

My apolpgies for being behind on this blog that was suppose to be done about a week ago but I do have other classes to take and more work that is more important than writing a blog for English.  Really, what's the point of doing so much work and were not even considered an excellerated English II class?

Every day, I dread coming to school for the first two periods anymore!  ALgebra II is too much work in the morning for me.  I understand I'm suppose to begin 'getting my brain warmed up', but doing 10-15 problems during class as examples and then taking home 30 more problems to practice for homework is rediculous to me.  Plus, I barely get any sleep at all at night in my house.  So in my head everyday, I tell myself, 'I can't wait for this period to be over with!' and then I end up falling asleep :/.

Mmm, and then there is Mr. Mann's English class.  This class makes me stress everyday because of how much is expected from everybody. 

Though I appreciate the fact that Mr. Mann makes up the weekly schedule and prints it out to hand out to us for us to be prepared each day, every week, I strongly dislike how much writing and reading we have to do!  I understand that it will help up be prepared better for the OGT's in March, but reading a Reading Circle book in a given amount of time while reading an outside reading book is doing too much.  It's hard for me to keep track of what's going on in each book when I'm switching back and forth.  Then the 3 writing pieces that we're required to do each six weeks and being expected to know 8 new vocab words right after another; and they're not easy words to remember- this makes me hate English class now.  All this work plus 6 more classes is A LOT for a Sophomore (like myself) to accomplish and be on top of everyday.

But it's not going to change no matter how much I complain, so I'm going to just have to suck it up and deal with it for the rest of the year.  We're almost half way done with the year and it's going by quick, so I'm gonna have to start pacing myself through the weeks of school.  Since I find Mr. Mann's English class difficult to keep up, I fear about English III next year as a Junior.  Help me! ):