What Makes you feel happy? How do you feel when you’re bummed out? What is a win, lose situation? These are some of the things that are talked about in Doug Berg’s “Feelings” class. The class meets every day during first hour and throughout the quarter. We will be working with a book called “Why am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am.” Through this book (the class?) hopes to find out a bit about their own feelings and perhaps the way other people feel also. Wanna know how you’re feeling? Drop in.
–Lynn Sevey
In Randy’s class we are studying Minnesota. We are learning about the pioneers, Indians, and how Minnesota and places in it came to be. Sometimes if we don’t have much to do, and we don’t want to stay in class, he lets us play broomball.
–Kelly Martin
Doug Berg’s third hour class has been officially labeled “Expectations.” In actuality, it has been a combination of such topics as expectations, feelings, and the strike. Since the quarter began with the strike date set, the first few days before the strike were spent getting to know some of the reasons behind the strike. Clearly, Doug’s views were a little biased, but I believe he did his best to let us know what was going on and how the teachers felt.
After the strike was settled, we began talking about expectations. We did exercises in what expectations we had for ourselves, how realistic they were, and expectations that other people had for us and if they were fair. We also took a look at our values and how they effect our goals.
Lately, we have been talking about feelings. We discovered that most people in the class had a hard time thinking of the “good” feelings while the “bad” feelings were quite a bit easier to think of. We then got into why this should be the case. We discussed anger and fear and usually found that most people had been taught to control those feelings.
Doug usually starts off the discussion with a little talk about whatever topic he’d like the class to get into. From there, the discussion is on an equal basis.
Although this class is called “Expectations,” it really is a combination of topics that the students and Doug feel important, like getting to know yourself and other people.
–Julie Borden