12-22-08

The first bell rang and I was on my way to physics in room 019, Mr. Manning’s room, on the bottom floor of the building. I walked in the room and was one of the first in the class to arrive. I took my seat and waited for the rest of my classmates to arrive. After a little while, when most of the class showed up, the teacher informed us that he was going to start handing back the tests we took last Friday on vectors. He started to hand them back and I waited in anticipation to see what my score was. I finally got it back and was surprised to find out that I did really well. He started to go over the answers and I had all of them right on the first page. The next page, however, I had a few questions wrong, but was happy to find out, when we were going over them, that the teacher had made a mistake on one of the questions and it was actually right. The rest though was all graded correctly. When we were finished going over the tests, the teacher first collected all of the tests that he had to fix and then the rest that had no mistakes. The teacher then handed out a new sheet of paper to us that explained what our bonus opportunity for tomorrow would be. Basically, we had to make a paper airplane, which we can modify to our own satisfaction, and it has to glide the farthest in the class in order to get any points. The scoring goes like this: 1st from each Pd 2nd from each Pd  3rd from each Pd  4th from each Pd  5th from each Pd  Overall (from all periods) 1st place – 3 additional pts Overall 2nd place – 2 additional pts Overall 3rd place – 1 additional pt