7th graders last year had 2 periods of english. One hour and thirty minutes of the same class. This year 7th graders only have one period of english forty five minutes, some 8th graders are pretty upset about this.
Here's what Halle Platt and 8th grader has to say about this change, “No I didn’t like it because I like to switch classes, and it was boring.” Did two periods of english make you smarter, are the seventh graders learning less? Halle doesn’t think that two periods of english necessarily made her smarter. “Are you jealous of the 7th graders?” I asked Halle “Yeah, it bugs me that they only have one period.”
Ashlee Eves an 8th grader, also agrees with Halle. She did not like having two periods of english. Especially on testing days. “When we had A and B days we would sometimes have our language arts teacher for three hours.” Ashlee told me. They put in science for the whole year now and Ashlee says even though she didn’t love english she would still rather have that then science all year. The seventh graders only have 45 minutes, are you jealous of that? “No not really, I don't really care. It’s good for them that they only have one period.”
Maizie Thompson also an 8th grader says, “I hated it, it was way too long.” Maizie would not go back to having two periods of english. She’s a little jealous that the seventh graders only have one period of english. But wouldn’t you be?
Lastly here's what Ms. Edenfield, a seventh grade english teacher, had to say about having only one period of english now. How has the change effected the english teachers? Ms Edenfield says, “I have 80 more students now, more things to do, and less time to teach.” The english teachers teach the same lessons they taught last year. Last year they had and hour and a half to teach their lessons, this year they have 45 minutes. Ms Edenfield doesn’t know which one she prefers. She says there are positive and negative things about both situations. She does miss having two periods to teach though. So it seems as though most of the 8th graders this year are not to happy about this change. The teachers on the other hand, I think they might miss it! Do you miss it?