I have no idea why I remember this, but in 6th grade, I got an assignment I absolutely could not do, and even when I tried to do it, it was total crap. So, what was it?

Write about a book that changed your life.

I have never read anything, even up to now, that significantly changed me to the point where I could write something about it (even though recently I've been reading way more than I did back then). Still, even if I got the same assignment now, I couldn't do it. I'd have to really BS on it, and very likely lie a lot of the way through. Still, it was no surprise I wasn't the only one who didn't do it.

So, what was your worst assignment?

5 page essay about the great depression in english.

Why did that suck so much? =w=
Because we already did a 3 page report about that month ago in social studies, and we couldn't use anything from the social studies one. Might as well be a 7 page report. .-.

I just had to make a powerpoint on Business Opportunities and Companies Create din the 1930s. I also had to write a 1 page report on what I learned (I BS'd the report! ). But, the worst assignment I did was probably a research paper on Natural Disasters because it took so darn long. Both assignment that I just talked about were for my English class.

In the Seventh Grade they had us do this thing where we wrote a letter to a girl in a book we read and had us do all this pointless research.

I didn't do it.

What is it with teachers setting bad assignments that deal with the 30's?

Great Depression, Dust Bowl.. Plus we're reading To Kill A Mockingbird. It sucks.

Ha! I just got done reading that book. xD

Boooring~! Oh, theres a movie about it btw, if ya don't wanna read the book~! =w=

Almost all books are boring to me.

I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird as well. Like a week or to ago. I bet we move on to a whole different story tomorrow. *Sigh*

I hate these assignments I have to do in my English class. Every Friday we have to write a six page essay about a story we read in class. The stories are so dumb that the teacher doesn't even understand them. I was like, "What is the point of writing an essay about a story that you didn't even understand yourself when you gave us the assignment?"

I never do those but I make up those assignments with my epic test scores. ;P

Well I hate reading all together no matter how much I'm nagged.

My English teachers know we hate to read the stupid stories that are in the Language of Literature books so he just plays the audio CD. If he doesn't, none of us will read it at all.

I read books that I actually believe are interesting and I only read them when I am bored. Or I come here and read all of the posts by my fellow members. ;P

I actually reading here. *nods*

Mine was writing 4 essays in two classes, all due the same day, 2 days from when it was assigned. Luckily I knew one subject I had to write on already, but the other 3 were stuff I was uninterested in so I had a hard time writing it.

Yeah and sometimes when things get uninteresting, you tend to write almost anything. Or at least something that is hard for them to understand. But it is definitely not the students fault. If you're going to teach something, teach something interesting. There are several ways you can make learning or teaching fun.

Ugh. An assignment assigned from the WORST TEACHER you will ever have!
...ask your parent about his/her job, do they like it/how much do they get paid/some other personal info.

the thing is, it was HARD to get the info because my dad hates doing crap like that such as interviews and stuff. Especially when its going to be read by a stupid old teacher that cuts everyday.
...paper. cuts paper. Ahyuk.

I went up to her, and told her: "My mom and dad has no job."

easy.(:

but then she gave me an F.

):<

f*** her...XD I failed Career Ed anyway, or at least nearly. Got an S.

I hate interviewing my parents or grandparents as well. I really don't see a point. It gets worse when the teacher gives you an assignment about talking to strangers and interviewing them. Makes you wonder how awkward your teacher is. I mean, do they go up to people at a mall who are shopping and ask them stupid random questions? Maybe... maybe not. Knowing my odd English teacher, he does though.

My English teacher is far too strict. If you write your date May 9, 2010. He'll be all like, no... you were supposed to write the date 5/9/10. Then he gives you points off your work for something that stupid. It gets even worse when you put 5/9/10 on a different paper and he says, "No sir, I didn't tell you to do that on this paper. On this one you was supposed to write the whole date out. You're not in Elementary anymore young man, I don't know what you were thinking when you did this."

Makes me want to pull my electric bolt shaped tail.

Anything history related have been my worst assignments ever. I understand the fact that wee need to know our nations history, but I don't agree that we need to know the year's everything happened (Unless it's the Dec. of Ind., Constitution, etc.)

If anyone has anything else to say for or against my topic, go ahead, I'll listen.

I don't see why people dislike History, I find it an interesting intellectual subject that is worth to study. Generally humanitarian subjects like Geography and History are really fun. Right now we're preparing for a causation essay about how Hitler became chancellor in 1933 in History and I absolutely love it. In Geography we're studying water scarcity, which is a deep topic that brings up issues that we must solve. If I were to hate a subject I would hate English. Analysing a novel twenty million times and memorising all these boring quotes. Macbeth killed me due to the dullness of it.

My humanities coursework was impossible...
Something to do with Child Labour... I might have done well if I'd paid attention.

I just got assigned a crappy assignment.

I'm suppose to write a letter using civil war slang. wth.

I have to read like 200 pages of To Kill A Mockingbird this weekend. They never give us enough time to read.

I generally have no problem analyzing literature and learning writing styles and effective writing techniques. I'm not good at history, but I do like it, and while I understand the practicality of learning geography, well...I fail.

I can't memorize anything, so I have to work on understanding how/why things work to find the answer myself- something that is impossible in history and geography. ^^;

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My worst assignment was a Biology project my teacher gave my class. We had to organize a group ourselves, then decide on an environmental issue that was affecting our school's city specifically, then we had to find proof, or some sort of official documentation that detailed it or that we could use as a source in our written paper.

We had to write a report on how this problem would affect the overall environment of the nation and ultimately the world, propose how it could be fixed, then create a video presentation (in our free time, with no discussion in class) to try to convince other people to become involved with fixing the issue.

In the meantime, if the teacher didn't feel motivated to help fix the issue from watching our created video, we would lose enough points to give each group member a B- at best, even if everything else was completed perfectly.

...

Oh. And we had two weeks from the time he first told us about it to the time we needed to turn it in. Oh, how did I *love* my ninth grade Biology teacher.

However, after him, I've been pretty lucky in teachers being fairly reasonable.

Writing a 4 page essay on the mid-evil time period including foreshadow, and dynamic characters.
~Snow