in the I.B. breakroom
I'd never even heard of I.B. until I started teaching at a school that participated and had to help prep students.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Nov 15, 2006 7:35:59 am PST #1584 of 28160
move out and draw fire
Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2006 7:50:07 am PST #1585 of 28160
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anyway, I remember themes being Global Economy and Technology. Books as Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day and Siddhartha. Not sure what years those all correspond to.
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:57:12 am PST #1586 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
That would be my junior and senior years, then. So my memory hasn't totally gone.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
At my school, that was me.
Gris - Nov 15, 2006 9:05:44 am PST #1587 of 28160
Hey. New board.
Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
This conversation made me look up 2006's winners. My school no longer competes (we won States for 17 years in a row, then the coaches retired and nobody kept it up. Sigh.) but the Mississippi winners last year had a Scholastic (kid with an average GPA of 3.0-3.75) who got the fourth highest score in the nation, apparently. Brought the team to 7th overall in the nation, and 1st in their division ("Medium" sized schools). I was impressed.
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:22:35 am PST #1588 of 28160
brillig
(I'm also feeling like the only Buffista who wasn't in AD, but if my school or state had had it, I would've been! Really!)
I don't think my school thought knowledge was competitive. I'd never heard of these competitions till recently. I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?
Amy - Nov 15, 2006 10:32:01 am PST #1589 of 28160
Because books.
I don't think we had any of these things when I was in high school, or my school didn't participate. I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise.
Possibly I was too busy smoking out in the parking lot.
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:34:26 am PST #1590 of 28160
brillig
I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise
Oh, yeah, if Mr. Berryhill had had a way to show off his star students, he'd have done it.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 2:23:38 pm PST #1591 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?
I just checked the website -- Academic Decathlon started in 1981.
Sheryl - Nov 15, 2006 2:39:20 pm PST #1592 of 28160
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
The only knowledge-based competition I can recall from my high school was the Math team. Not quite the same as the stuff you folks mentioned...
beth b - Nov 15, 2006 8:10:25 pm PST #1593 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok. if you ever get the chance to see Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, speak, GO. very entertaining. even if you are a really picky reader she 's got stuff for you. and Besides - she is the only Librarian I know , other than BatGirl, that has her own action figure.
and the action figure