Classroom Improvements

Your (I'm talking to you Mr. McCarthy) classroom doesn't have that many problems. Maybe you could make the grading scale a little easier like 93-100 is an A and 92-82 is B etc, because the current grading scale is super crazy. We should definitley watch even more movies.  I think you should completely get rid of note taking when we have to read books, like House of the Seven Gables, and our Independent reading books, I'm pretty sure its unanimous that every student hates taking notes, but if we still have to take notes, you should at least let us use them on the tests, if we take notes and then don't use them for anything they are useless and a waste of time.  I think you shouldn't make us do Independent reading projects, it's no fun reading a book for fun if we have to to projects and work about them.  I like how you let us choose the House of the 7 Gables over the Scarlet Letter, and I think you should let us choose what books we read by a certain author, for example: Edgar Allen Poe: Book a, Book b, or Book c.  You should also give us less reading to do, 20-50 pages is crazy for one night I think 20-30 is better, some of us have other classes that also give large and unreasonable amounts of homework, and sometimes its hard to do it all.  Besides this, you have a great class, I have lots of fun in it, and I am happy to be in it.