my WOST teacher picks on me too
So I sent her an email:
The reason I did not pass your exam with an adequate grade should have been obvious; I did not prepare for the second essay question. If you had looked at my note cards you would have seen that I had taken a gamble and I went into great detail with every single question besides that one. I was just unlucky.
I don't expect you to give me any extra credit or any special treatment. I would, however, like you to respect me enough to give me the grade I deserve without giving me any grief about it. Seeing as I am the only student who did not pass the test and the only student who has gotten a zero in class participation, I feel what you said to the class after you passed out the tests completely gave away my identity as the one student who got a D. You brought up the question that I was unable to answer a few weeks ago and when you did that, you let the entire class know exactly who I was. After the big deal you made about the discussion of our grades, I was shocked. Because only one student failed the exam (me), it was completely unnecessary for you to lecture the class for as long as you did about my failures. Right after that you purposefully put me on the spot *again* only this time you asked me a question that I was not asked to prepare for. On Tuesday night I read Gerson's article and I prepared an answer for your class because I did not want you to yell at everyone else because of me again. I was also planning on bringing the textbook with me to school and going over the other articles during my breaks (I have two one-hour breaks on Wednesdays). I grabbed the wrong purple book on my way out the door-the book I grabbed was called Issues in Intimate Violence and it's also purple- and I wasn't able to go home and pick up the right book because I carpool with all of my roommates and I don't have a car at my disposal. After what happened last time I didn't know the answer to my question, I absolutely had every intention of preparing what I thought I had to have prepared for your class. Instead I got unlucky again and you asked me to answer a question that I did not have prepared again.
I am not a lost cause. I can absolutely get an A on the final (I got an A on every question that I prepared for on the midterm exam, after all) and I can absolutely pass your class just fine as long as you can work with me, let me know if you want me to prepare a question that isn’t question #5 and as long as you aren't intentionally trying to sabotage me. You don't have to like me but I'm still your student and I feel that I still deserve treatment that is equal to the rest of the class. I can prepare every question, but you need to let me know first.
For project 1 I was going to read a random issue of Cosmopolitan and analyze the portrayal of women throughout that entire issue, including the articles and the advertisements. Is that okay?
The reason I did not pass your exam with an adequate grade should have been obvious; I did not prepare for the second essay question. If you had looked at my note cards you would have seen that I had taken a gamble and I went into great detail with every single question besides that one. I was just unlucky.
I don't expect you to give me any extra credit or any special treatment. I would, however, like you to respect me enough to give me the grade I deserve without giving me any grief about it. Seeing as I am the only student who did not pass the test and the only student who has gotten a zero in class participation, I feel what you said to the class after you passed out the tests completely gave away my identity as the one student who got a D. You brought up the question that I was unable to answer a few weeks ago and when you did that, you let the entire class know exactly who I was. After the big deal you made about the discussion of our grades, I was shocked. Because only one student failed the exam (me), it was completely unnecessary for you to lecture the class for as long as you did about my failures. Right after that you purposefully put me on the spot *again* only this time you asked me a question that I was not asked to prepare for. On Tuesday night I read Gerson's article and I prepared an answer for your class because I did not want you to yell at everyone else because of me again. I was also planning on bringing the textbook with me to school and going over the other articles during my breaks (I have two one-hour breaks on Wednesdays). I grabbed the wrong purple book on my way out the door-the book I grabbed was called Issues in Intimate Violence and it's also purple- and I wasn't able to go home and pick up the right book because I carpool with all of my roommates and I don't have a car at my disposal. After what happened last time I didn't know the answer to my question, I absolutely had every intention of preparing what I thought I had to have prepared for your class. Instead I got unlucky again and you asked me to answer a question that I did not have prepared again.
I am not a lost cause. I can absolutely get an A on the final (I got an A on every question that I prepared for on the midterm exam, after all) and I can absolutely pass your class just fine as long as you can work with me, let me know if you want me to prepare a question that isn’t question #5 and as long as you aren't intentionally trying to sabotage me. You don't have to like me but I'm still your student and I feel that I still deserve treatment that is equal to the rest of the class. I can prepare every question, but you need to let me know first.
For project 1 I was going to read a random issue of Cosmopolitan and analyze the portrayal of women throughout that entire issue, including the articles and the advertisements. Is that okay?