This is a typical classroom in Accra Girls Secondary School. There about 40-50 students in a class. The students and teachers are really nice. The students are well behaved and friendly. They do not have many books so today they listened and wrote in their notebook about a page of text before they then started analyzing it for how to summarize. There after they answered many of the same ideas that we do such as evidence and rephrasing. The building is one classroom wide so the breeze can blow through the room. This is good as I am very hot here.
Hi Mr French, this is the 6th period social studies class.
ReplyDeleteTravis would like to know what languages students take as an elective.
Do students study ancient history or world history or the history of Ghanna?
do students take many tests? Do they have colleges there? Is school on ly for thos who can afford it?
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DeleteThere are 4 core courses that are spiraled and connect year to year not like ours that have different courses. The electives are French or a local language, art, some science, business or home economics. They study mostly Ghanian history and African history. There seem to only have a brief world history. The students do not take as many tests as we do, but the final is 70% of their final grade so is very important. There is a much bigger emphasis on those tests. There are starting now and will take place until the end of May. They go to university in the same manner that we do. School is supposedly free until 8th grade, but there are fees like for books that students cannot afford to go and some students need to work to suppor the family. Grade 9-12 they have to pay for.