30for30: Favorite Assignments #1

In just 30 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the SOCIAL STUDIES folder for round three.  One of those disciplines that we studied was Sociology, and not to brag, but I aced (or aced plus) *everything* in that class, including this classic assignment where you married a classmate and raised a child together (a child that was, of course, an egg -- because we were a poor city school that couldn't afford those fancy creepy dolls).  We had to journal about it (see subsequent photos), and as overachievers, we also designed a house ... and then also processed a full blown divorce (because, as children in the late 80's, that was all the rage and I was actually an expert in the subject matter due to both of my parents' life choices).  Regardless, I just thought it would be fun to remember my very first faux marriage (I had a second fake one in college as part of a murder mystery and then a third secret one in 2015).

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #2

In just 31 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the SEE (Secondary Enrichment Experiences) folder for round three.  In it I found the paperwork from one of the special events from early in my sophomore year (an offsite workshop opened up to a certain group of students as coordinated by the guidance office) that was focused on "charting a career path".  By the end of the day, I had the skeleton of a plan listing goals to take the PSAT and SAT (check), to go to LVC (check) and to get married and have a career (check and check).  On the bottom, I had to list specific steps to take, and on the far left, I wrote "find wife".  Luckily for Chris and I (wink-wink), the same sheet says at the very bottom: "Be flexible, your goals are not set in concrete -- re-arrange and change them as you go"!

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #3

In just 32 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the SCIENCE folder for round three -- specifically the PHYSICS notes.  A few clarifications ... these are the official notes that I took in the Physics class and not the notes that I passed around in Physics class, as a group of us went a little nuts secretly sharing a sheet of paper on which we all commented throughout class (think "group chat", but 1989 style -- and be warned it got a little "blue").  Also, pictured is a very crisp clean specific format in which we had to submit our labs (the backside of one lab and the front side of another) -- and we figure that we had to do it that way because our physics teacher was a former FBI agent who wanted it to appear like government paperwork.  Finally, this lab dated March 11 of 1989 is the last entry in this folder ... and that's because I kind of gave up on the class once senioritis set in (but still got an A 'cause I frontloaded the year with good scores).  #truetalk

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #4

In just 33 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the MATH folder for round three, although since I focused on the final section in it from Honors Calculus, it may as well be a foreign language at this point in my life.  It's been decades since I thought about (sin)s and (cos)s and integration and differentials -- although I do now recall being appropriately tickled that the work also included (tan)s -- as I shared the abbreviation for "tangents" with that of my own initials (and as I've been known to go off on a few of them on occasion).  I'll also take it as good news that theorem 1.5 about how "parallel lines can only be truly parallel if those lines have identical slopes" still actually makes sense to me.  (I checked to see if there was a theorem about "blurred lines" to assist all of us in the modern era with understanding that concept, but sadly found none.)

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #5

In just 34 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the HUMANITIES folder for round three, where the cover sheets for each of the different binders (which represented different marking periods, as I recall) were the prompts that we used for our weekly journals -- because everyone knows that a key part of being human is honing one's skills for reflection, and then regurgitating that insight back to your 11th grade teacher in a secret diary format.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #6

In just 34 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.
Next up -- a final visit to the HEALTH folder for round three, and since I've been joking about growing up in conservative central PA, I decided to finally look and see exactly what it was that they taught us about sex.  I was able to find a segment on the "reproductive systems", where I can now prove that they did teach us about the clitoris (although not what to do with it) before spending a big segment on the menstrual cycle ('cause I'm sure men wrote the chapter and were scared of all that blood down there).  Separately, I found the STD notes and that tiny chart about a little thing called AIDS -- or at least how it was presented to high school students in the late 80's. 

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #7

In just 35 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the GERMAN folder for round three, and I can't possibly share a remembrance of learning a foreign language without covering the task that would make high school kids giggle once they ate from the tree of schoolyard knowledge and decided that conjugation sounded like a sexual act.  Although, as I recall, the giggling stopped once we had to keep straight the advanced tenses of the imperfect, the plueperfect and the future perfect.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #8

In just 36 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the ENGLISH folder for round three, where I pulled essays/papers/writing assignments from each of the grades, mostly to prove that this "me liking words" thing has been happening for a good long time.  Truth be told -- I almost always turned in double (or triple) the amount of pages that was required ... and sometimes I went controversial (see my tirade against my gym teacher Mr. Heilman where I may have gone too far by invoking Godwin's Law [you know if you know]) ... but mostly I just poured my heart into those pages.  Note that the research paper on the right got me in trouble with my classmates, who weren't happy that I was getting SO much feedback from my teacher (and they weren't).  And, of course, this being the late 80's, almost everything was hand written in cursive -- a lost art, I'm sure.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #9

In just 37 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the DRIVERS' EDUCATION folder for round three, where I found this handy dandy official manual for driving.  Truth be told, I walked everywhere for most of high school ... and then rode a 10 speed bike well into my college years before finally learning how to drive (shout out to the votech parking lot where Judy W taught me what I needed to know in the early 90's), so this booklet, courtesy of erstwhile governor Robert B Casey (Sr ... not his son Jr who is now a Senator for the Keystone State), sat in this folder for a good bit until it was finally used.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #10

In just 38 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a final visit to the COMPUTER folder for round three, where I found this collection of PASCAL programs that represent the beginning and the end of my career in programming (or what today's kids call coding).  To the best of my knowledge, PASCAL is now a lost language no longer in use (which makes sense for something that was new thirty years ago), but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy reminiscing over the special header section at the top which was a place for freestyle comments that, me being me, I turned into an opportunity for snark (that one in the bottom right corner appears to be me taking digs at the new principal's "assertive discipline program" which launched in our senior year).

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #11

In just 39 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the (recently relocated [yay!]) GERMAN folder for round two, where I found these notes from the second year of (high school) German.  On one side, there is a basic somewhat-phonetic primer on how to pronounce the alphabet auf Deutsch.  On the other, it's a key (mimeographed!) handout of vocabulary related to articles of clothing.  And anyone who recognizes that handwriting as belonging to Mr. Heck will NOT be surprised to see that he added toga, leather pants and lingerie to that high school vocab list.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #12

In just 40 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the SOCIAL STUDIES folder for round two, where I found this (potentially) incriminating page in my American Studies III notes where I apparently started tracking direct quotes of a certain Mr. Detwiler.  I don't think I was necessarily planning on blackmailing him or anything ... and that it was more about just documenting his slow descent into madness.  Upon reflection, his quotes kind of sound a little like a certain controversial current occupant of the White House, no? 

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #13

In just 41 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the SEE programs folder for round two, and if you didn't remember from the last time, these were special offsite Secondary Enrichment Experiences that the "peculiar" kids got to attend.  ("Peculiar" is more of a British word ... in our school, "gifted" was used instead.)  Basically, the same guidance counselors who once signed me out of an ill-gotten suspension (see story in previous countdown) could also sign us out of *regular* school, so that we could travel over to the next county to do an in-depth dive into whether China's communism was any better than our capitalism -- a type of lesson our little high schools simply couldn't provide.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #14

In just 41 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the SCIENCE folder for round two, where I found this handy guide to the most expensive equipment we were allowed to touch back then.  Of course, since this is a public school, I'm guessing that these dark black compound microscopes might *still* be in rotation.  Or maybe it's all fancy 3d printers and digital or electron versions.  Maybe -- who knows?!   Regardless, us and ours will always have *these* to fill our memories of the first time we all saw our first honest to goodness cells.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #15

In just 42 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the MATH folder for round two, where we eventually expanded our knowledge by getting to the section on "imaginary numbers".  Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that I learned about "imaginary friends" from Sesame Street prior to that ... so Mr. Yenser's lessons on "imaginary numbers" was just a natural progression.  (Kids -- *this* is the kind of fun stuff in which we engaged before Common Core Math came along to get everyone going.) 

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #16

In just 43 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the HUMANITIES folder for round two, where we apparently sometimes tackled some of the big stuff ... like the concept of "freedom" in the "philosophies" of Freud, Darwin, Marx and Christ.  I'm not sure why I'm suddenly using "quotation marks" around those words ... unless maybe it's because I learned a little bit more than I should have back then and have doubts about both ideas that have lasted for three decades.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #17

In just 44 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the HEALTH folder for round two, where I found my notes about when we learned what may be the *most& important thing we could possibly be taught in this class (remember that we grew up in conservative central PA in the late 80's, so the tendency was to focus on safe things over anything more controversial).  Now I'm not saying that we could all immediately go out and skip any additional training or schooling and be nurses and doctors, but it was definitely true that we all walked out when the bell rang this day knowing everything about the amazing healing powers of RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation). 

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #18

In just 45 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the ENGLISH folder for round two, where I found the easiest book report that any of us ever had to give.  In hindsight, I'm not sure if the teacher (was this a Mr. Heverling trick?) didn't want to have grade a bunch of papers ... or if maybe the whole point of the lesson was to teach us about the honor system ... but the truth is that I *did* actually read that book, and then the sequel, and then I watched both mini-series, and then I bought both books for my personal library, and then I picked up any Herman Wouk items I could throughout the years as I had decided way back then that he was to be one of my favorite authors.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #19

In just 46 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that

have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the DRIVERS' EDUCATION folder for round two, where we were given these handy "everything you need to know about the mechanics of cars just in case your father is being told by his fourth wife that his youngest boy might not really be his and so they never really bonded over things like this" brochures.  (Although I will say that, despite having access to this guide, said "youngest boy" later shared a motorcycle with someone a few summers later and each thought the other was taking care of it such that the engine eventually seized up and neither one had a working motorcycle any longer.)  Anyways -- this sure was a handy brochure for some folks ... I'm sure.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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30for30: Favorite Assignments #20

In just 47 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting these special TOP 30 lists (see previous lists of Jukebox Memories and Most Memorable Teachers/Staff).

This month ... it's all about the top 30 favorite assignments (see rules below) -- and that means I'm going into the archives and going way way way back to duotang folders in a bin in storage, most of which that have not even been OPENED for the last three decades.

Next up -- a return to the COMPUTER folder for round two, where I found these notes about how to make sure you considered "spacing concerns" when making "computer reports" and a call to action to be sure that you tailored them to your particular system.  The only options back in the late 80's?  TRS-80 (from the local Radio Shack no doubt), a little company called APPLE (you may have heard of them), a littler company called COMMODORE (my first pc was a vic-20, and the first ever video game I played was on a cassette tape that connected to it) and a generic PRINTER.  Looking through this folder is beginning to make me feel like I'm so old that I was around when they discovered fire.

RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST:  These are MY favorite assignments.  They may also be YOUR favorite assignments -- but they may not be, especially since it's quite conceivable that you have NO favorite assignments.  My grades, though, were pretty good ... so, you know ... hence this particular countdown.  No negativity or other comments about hoarding will be permitted (after all -- hoarders wouldn't know where [most] of their things are and they wouldn't be so [mostly] organized ... so SHUT YOUR MOUTH about that).  The poster is not responsible for any reappearance of any repressed memories you might have about anything that is included in this series.  Note:  due to the fewer number of days in February, two posts of this kind will show up on Sundays.

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