We all hate group projects. But I hate them with a special bone in my body. Luckily, since my religion teacher decides that group projects are the best things ever, I have lots of stories about group projects and what went wrong. So in Part 1 of "I really am truly sorry and I want to make up for it'' I decided a throwback to the Top Ten Worst Group Project Experiences. So share your story in the comments, and laugh at my stories. Talk to you guys tomorrow!
10. Aztecs & Mayans In sixth grade, we had to do a project about the Aztecs and Mayans. It wasn't the group that I was in that was the people (I was in a group with my friends Sophia and Liz) it was that as soon as we decided to make a Mayan temple, Harper and her group, decided to also. Luckily, ours was way better than hers, but still. That's against the girl code. | 9. Christmas in Mexico Like Mike says, "Sometimes I don't hate group projects, I just don't trust people in my group." Which is true. For our information literacy class, we had to make a power point presentation about Christmas in Mexico, and then present it to the class. My class, volunteered me to put the presentation together. So everyone who had slacked, yeah, I had to try to put their three little sentences into a full slide, and then present it. |
8. Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? This is the group project I just finished. In religion, we had to come up with evidence to prove that Jesus did rise from the dead. I was nice, did all of it, then told the teacher that everyone helped. I don't want to look like a total jerk. | 7) Newscast (Part 1) We had to take a common bible story, and make it into the newscast. But we didn't get it finished first semester, so we had to continue it in the second semester. Except they took the three class periods, made it into 2, then switched people around. I got graded on how my original group preformed, and they bombed. That's how I got a B in the easiest class ever. |
6. Egypt In Social Studies, we had to create a poster on a country in North East Africa. I got one of the stupidest girl in the classes. She's really nice, but just she either just acts stupid, or has 5 brain cells. | 5. Science Labs Last semester, we always had to do science labs with our table partner. My partner never studied, or even knew what we were doing. "Sorry I'm no help, I just haven't studied lately." Yeah, whatever, just read your stupid book. |
4. Basketball When my basketball team went to a tournament, our coach never put us in. But when I did go in, if I did something good, I was so happy. Even if no one knew I did it, I was just really happy. No matter how much I hated that tournament. | 3. Newscast (Part 2) I HAD TO DO EVERYTHING BECAUSE THEN THE GROUP WOULD HAVE FALLEN INTO TYRANNY. LET'S LEAVE IT AT THAT. |
2. Lego League As much as I love Lego League, and as excited as I was to go on to state, I don't think that some people deserved to go on with us to state because the spent all the practices goofing off. | 1. So many bad ones, I can't choose! I really can't choose the worst one. I just leave you with this word of advice: if you can choose your group, choose people you want. If you can't, I'm sorry. |