Me and my group did our presentation on the history of the Gettysburg Address today in English 3. First off, there is some rage due to our instructions being- "You're doing a presentation on the history of the Gettysburg Address. Someone in our group needs to make an original art piece." That's it. We had to make our own rubric and everything. Our powerpoint had two slides on the Battle of Gettysburg, a slide on Everett, a slide on historical allusions in the Address, a slide on statistics (Amount dead in Battle, amount dead in Civil War, amount of slaves, that kind of stuff), a page on the reactions of various newspapers, and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff. We were afraid of putting a lot of that stuff in because we thought it wouldn't be relevant. What does our teacher say? "You didn't go into enough detail. Another group had what sort of people were at the address. Why don't you have that? You barely told me anything about Everett. You went on too long about the Battle. What was everyone else's reactions? Why don't you have that Everett was president of Harvard?" And on and on. First off- The other classes have groups of 6-7 each. We had 3. One person had to concentrate on the art portion. That leaves me and one other person to do the work of almost six people. We weren't even told what we needed to have, and she complains that we either- Didn't go into enough detail, or we went into too much detail. And when she started asking rhetorical questions "What did this person do? What were other people's actions?" and I tried to answer, because we DID know that, she said that we apparently don't, since it's not on our presentation. And apparently the Battle of Gettysburg isn't important enough to the Gettysburg Address to justify giving the basic facts about it, such as the dates, people in charge, and other basic facts. And that the statistics, like the amount dead and buried at the cemetery there, is something that the math group was supposed to do, and that we should be doing what their presentation is supposed to do. Never mind that we have NO IDEA what the hell the math group is doing, since there were absolutely no set instructions for any part of this project and what we could or could not do. And this isn't just an isolated incident because our group didn't do a good enough job. My friend who has that class earlier in the day did his presentation, and she yelled at his group to for not going into enough detail. She complained about the Linguistic group who presented last week too, even thou they also only have three people in their group, presented a full week earlier then the rest, and one of them was gone for a full three quarters of the project time, due to being on a team competition halfway across the contenient and having her grandmother die. The ONLY bright side of this is that we are getting an opportunity to re-do our powerpoint for 20 points off. Oh yeah, this is also during AP testing, and almost everyone in this class is trying to study for those.
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