Welcome to biology! I was a freshman when I first stepped foot inside Mr. Orre's Biology class. As a freshman, I took Geometry Enriched, English 9, Spanish 2, Chinese, and obviously, biology with Mr. Orre! Outside of school, I love to spend time with my friends and family, traveling, and eating.
Coming into class, Mr Orre expects for you to be mature and go through the daily routine of sitting at your assigned seat and doing your Do Now in your notebook. A normal day consists of doing the Do Now, reflecting on last night's vodcast, and then going into a lab/project that relates to the vodcast or the unit. For labs, we work with our table group and once we are done, we need to reflect on it on our biology blogs. Because Mr. Orre's class is a flipped classroom, the homework consists on watching the lesson and taking notes on it in your notebook with a relate and review and also taking a small quiz on canvas. Tests consist of everything that we learned in class and in the vodcast from the unit, they are very fair because everything was in the vodcasts. The notebook is one of the most important part of the class because most of your work is in it. Over the year, you become much more independent and learn a lot about biology.
In this class, you should never talk while Mr. Orre is speaking, for that is his biggest pet peeve. To get a good grade in the class, you must do all the vodcasts on time and always turn in things on time, especially blog posts. Homework is important for having a good grade because it is the foundation to everything we learn. To get a good grade on a test, you must go over your notes and go over the quizzes on canvas, for the questions are often quite similar. My biggest mistakes were that I did not study a lot for the test in the beginning, and that really hurts your grade, another mistake was that I did not practice enough for a presentation, which I do now, and last but not least, you should always actually watch the vodcast because you might miss some important information. After some of these mistakes, I changed what I did and it did prove very successful, such as watching the vodcasts and also studying hard for tests.
Overall, this class would have to be a 9/10 because it forces you to be much more independent, which will help you in the future. Like other classes, though, this class will only be as good as how much effort you put into it. I really enjoyed it because this class is very unique and also fun. Next year, I will be taking Chemistry Honours because I feel that this class has prepared me a lot for it, work wise. In summary, this class will be your best class of your day because of how it will captivate you throughout the year, and you will learn many things through vodcast, labs, and awesome projects!
-Baptiste
In this class, you should never talk while Mr. Orre is speaking, for that is his biggest pet peeve. To get a good grade in the class, you must do all the vodcasts on time and always turn in things on time, especially blog posts. Homework is important for having a good grade because it is the foundation to everything we learn. To get a good grade on a test, you must go over your notes and go over the quizzes on canvas, for the questions are often quite similar. My biggest mistakes were that I did not study a lot for the test in the beginning, and that really hurts your grade, another mistake was that I did not practice enough for a presentation, which I do now, and last but not least, you should always actually watch the vodcast because you might miss some important information. After some of these mistakes, I changed what I did and it did prove very successful, such as watching the vodcasts and also studying hard for tests.
Overall, this class would have to be a 9/10 because it forces you to be much more independent, which will help you in the future. Like other classes, though, this class will only be as good as how much effort you put into it. I really enjoyed it because this class is very unique and also fun. Next year, I will be taking Chemistry Honours because I feel that this class has prepared me a lot for it, work wise. In summary, this class will be your best class of your day because of how it will captivate you throughout the year, and you will learn many things through vodcast, labs, and awesome projects!
-Baptiste
