Mr. Preim's 12th CP English

Hello and welcome to Mr Primes.

12th grade college prep class.

I'm filming from my kitchen.

You can see my Nish ship lap wall behind me.

Eso one of the things that I wanted to go

over today, as I meet you and you meet me

without a mask, some of these guys might not even

know I have a good to you.

They have not seen without a mask yet, unfortunately, But

this year, we are going to make the best out

of our situation.

So we're only meeting twice a week.

And for most students, I only see you on Wednesdays.

But for this year, we're gonna all the same material.

We're going to cover the same amount of assignments, the

same amount of writing, and in some ways, we're actually

covering Mawr because you have more time at home to

work on the assignment that we give.

And you're really getting time to spend with the material

that I give out.

So just a quick overview of May.

I have been teaching here for seven years.

I graduated here for in 2000 and 10 so you

could do the math and how old I am.

I coach soccer on the J V coach.

I was the freshman coach for two years, and I've

been the J.

V coach for five years now.

It's my fifth year.

I coached tennis for two years, and I coached boys

valuable for a short season last year.

So all of that said is I'm pretty involved with

the after school activities.

I've run the yearbook, so I have been really in

touch with your students on senior portrait CE and baby

pictures. And I'm gonna get first dibs on the information

that I need from them.

And I'll be, you know, pressuring them in class to

do certain things and given extra credit for submitting their

baby picture earlier this year.

So all of that said, I taught in Trend Central

High School for three years before I came here, and

I love it here.

It's where I grew up.

I became a father in February of last year.

I have a little ginger baby.

She's eight months old, she is awesome, but she also

doesn't let me sleep.

So you'll be getting me groggy many mornings if I

have you first period as I'm trying to get through

the day, but she's awesome.

And, um, you know, I live inhabited.

My wife and I, Alison, live real close.

So, you know, we're invested in the community and the

school, so to go over what we actually read this

year, um, we are reading, uh, just to go over

the main units.

We start in ancient texts.

So we start with Samarian Egyptian, Hebrew, which is biblical,

er, Arabic literature, which is the Koran on dhe, then

unit to we go to the rise of Asia.

You know, three.

We're in classical, ancient Greece.

So that's where we could the need and the Iliad

and number.

The Unit four we go Thio, Middle Ages and the

Renaissance Unit five, where in the Romantic and Unit six,

we are in contemporary world literature.

So we're all over the map, literally.

We're kind of bouncing back and forth, going for what

we call the, you know, going through ancient world literature

all the way up to present day covering the big

chunks of literature across.

So we cover a lot of different styles they don't

like. Something will be done very soon because another unit

to go thio.

Uh, so we just finished Gilgamesh.

We're gonna move on to Greek next, and we'll be

talking about the Iliad as they already read The Odyssey,

which is part two of the alien.

So we go backwards because its second part's easier to

reach. The freshmen read the Odyssey, which I also teach

freshman and then the seniors read the Iliad.

So it's backwards.

But it makes sense when you look at the reading

content so that we cover many, many different things.

The last thing we covered the end of the year

is Shakespeare.

We cover Hamlet and what we right, So we right,

uh, all kinds of styles of writing.

But the main thing that I want to do with

these seniors is give them writing that they can use

beyond the classroom.

So I know many of them are applying to colleges.

They have common APS.

They are applying to some of our communities, and our

four year some are just doing technical schools.

A lot of them require essays to be submitted when

they when they apply.

So the essays that they're gonna be writing we, Mr

Boyd and I teach the college prep seniors.

We've narrowed it down to the main problems.

They're usually used on bacon, right?

Those essays for my class or sometime this month towards

the end, we're going to start writing our common up

essays so they can translate them over to their coming

up when they are ready to go.

So writing the matters.

And so when they get to English comp 101 in

college, they have a basic understanding of what to expect,

and they're not behind.

We want to be ahead.

So we're prepping them for college is why this is

called college prep, so we write a plethora of things.

One of the main things we write is a research

paper. So again, it's modeled after English comp one No.

One but there to expect.

Hopefully, they won't be making that face.

They've already written three research papers if they stayed in

CP for the past three years, and I know that

because I taught them as freshmen and I taught a

research paper.

So this one is supposed to be the capstone, so

it's a little longer.

It's a little more intense, but this is what they'll

be writing as soon as November hits.

I'm gonna start introducing that typically we do a debate.

We set it up.

We go the auditorium.

But this year might be different.

So I really don't want to do a Google meat

or resume debate, but we'll see how we can dio.

So I try to keep everything persuasive, not just regurgitating

information back goto higher level learning, which is taking that

information and synthesizing into their own opinion and regurgitating it

back in that way.

And that way we have demonstration of higher level learning

in that respect.

So overview of the course we're gonna have two or

three essays of marking periods.

You're talking about 10 to 12 by the end of

the year, we will be covering all basically, uh, ridiculous

amount of literature from the beginning of the Sumerian text,

which is the oldest known text we have to today.

And I'll throw in a lot of modern articles and

a lot of modern things as well as we go

to make comparisons.

But we do cover a lot of ground, and we

have a lot to do this year.

So I'm looking forward to building upon, you know, the

past three years of literature and knowledge and content awareness

and moving forward and getting them ready for college.

And I'm looking forward to, you know, just I love

teaching seniors.

I love how they're basically.

Well, at least they think they're adults, or you can

treat them or like adults and develop that relationship with

them where they're, you know, my job is to help

them. So if they come with the with the work

ethic, then my job is to get them ready for

college. I'm not, you know, walking around the classroom, barking

orders. This is This is what we need to do,

how we're gonna get through it together.

And that's the kind of the attitude I have for

this year.

So if you have any questions, please feel free to

reach out.

My Google classroom couldn't be more simply set up.

It's the topic is the week.

Assignments are labeled by the day so they know every

day. What's Dio?

It's going to get more intense when we get to

the research paper and as we move through our next

few big readings, so please encourage them to to stay

up with their work if they're on remote.

I know it's hard, but today.

Discipline this possible?

I can't accept late work just because the way this

new system is so if it's not there by the

end of the day or, you know, when I say

something's Dio I physically, I can't go back in and

keep it something things like, because I don't get alerted

when they come in late.

So after I grade it, that's it.

So please stay on top of your work, make sure

that they are signing in because I only have one

period of seniors in their first period.

So you guys in my home room, so make sure

that they click on that link and sign in so

they don't have any attendance issues at the end of

the year.

And they, you know, they can walk a graduation while

having to argue days away, and hopefully by January will

be in person.

And hopefully when this whole mess resolves with our candidates

going for a for office, we can get back in

school full time and be five days a week.

Let's be so nice.

I'm already so tired of this and I'm sure you

would love them and have them out of the house

for five days.

All right, so have a great week.

Enjoy the rest of your back to school night and

I will talk to you soon.

Mr. Preim's 12th CP English

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