As I transitioned from middle school to high school, I’ve noticed significant differences between the assignments given in classes. I’m sure many students can relate to this, and many of us will likely encounter the scariest and most difficult worksheets or projects nowadays. Which is what I’ll be covering: what are the haunted assignments that I dread on a day-to-day basis?
In my opinion, number one has to go to any math-related assignments. No hateful bias towards any of my math teachers, by the way. I had great teachers throughout. But no one can convince me to like the subject, and I feel like, just like every curriculum, math just gets harder. And this results in complicated problems and solutions that need to be solved repeatedly.
Number two goes to group projects. While it is fun to collaborate with your friends, I personally get an overwhelming pressure in my head. Internally, I just feel like I have to do more tasks and work on hand with group projects, so it’s quite terrifying sometimes.
Quarter finals are in the middle, as number three, they’re not only tedious, but they are such a large percent of your grade. So if you flunk one section of this assignment, test, or project of a quarterly final, it’s extremely hard to get back up on your feet.
Number four, vocabulary packets. The most work you’ll ever have to do for a class. Just kidding, but they are a handful. They’re pretty easy if you actually do them every week before the final due date, but no one does that. And I feel like they don’t even help me most of the time, it just feels like I have to go on a time crunch to just turn these in on time.
Finally, reading guides. Anything with textbooks is quite hard to deal with, as it takes more of your brain’s comprehension to swallow up all the information that was mentioned in each section. But these do come in handy for any unit tests that come up, as long as you read the actual textbook bit by bit, of course.
Looking back, it’s worth mentioning that literacy rates in schools have dropped to some of their lowest levels this year. Maybe that’s what makes these assignments feel even more haunted—when fewer students feel confident reading or solving problems, even the simplest worksheet starts to look like a ghost story. What’s really frightening is how unprepared many students feel to tackle them at all. But instead of letting that fear consume us, I think it’s worth noting that trying our best through each scary task is the most admirable thing a student can do here at BVN.
