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Hello. Welcome to my freshman CP English Class.
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This is a quick overview of the course.
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What I'm expecting and what I'm hoping to get accomplished
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this year.
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My name is Mr Prime.
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I have been teaching here for seven years now.
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When I graduated from here in 2000 and 10 I
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taught at Grand Central High School for three years.
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So I have some experience there.
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And when I came here, I started teaching right away
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and I took over Miss Man spot.
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If you are having Tony and you know, Miss Miss
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Me. And once you taught him for 40 something years
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and so ever since then I took over as the
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soccer coach.
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So I am the jayvee soccer coach under Steve Arizona's
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varsity coach and Tom Boyd as the freshman.
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And I was the tennis coach for two years, and
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I started as the J.
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V coach for the boys volleyball team.
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Last year.
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Better season was cut short because Kobe So I coach,
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I run the yearbook with Miss Ger psycho advise and
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the yearbook.
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This year is gonna be great.
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Last year was the first time we ever sold out,
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so I'm looking forward to another good year with our
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editor staff were the best staff we've ever had a
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student wise.
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So we're looking forward to having a a nice book
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come out of this year.
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One of the best things that come out of 2020
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2021 will be the yearbook.
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So around the yearbook, I became a father in February
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of last year with my wife, Alison, and she is
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awesome, but she does not sleep yet, so I will
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be somewhat groggy 2 to 3 days a week this
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year. So she has just turned eight months, so she'll
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be two months very soon.
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All right, so what we read that's gonna go over
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a brief overview of what our class will be reading
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this year instead of focusing on and kind of getting
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channel and stuck in one time period, which I know
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the next few curriculums do.
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Software Junior senior year.
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Getting stuck in ancient literature, getting stuck in British literature
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against American literature.
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We get a little bit of everything, so we first
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start off with, um, short stories.
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So we spent about two months and short stories the
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first month.
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I use these to just teach basic literary skills that
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I want them to have for the rest of the
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year when we get the longer texts so inferring versus
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implying characterization, the plot diagram and they use them as
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model text.
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But we read the most dangerous game went to the
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interlopers. We read Lamb to the slaughter.
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We just read the necklace.
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And so we're taking our test on them today, which
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today is Monday, Tuesday of this week and are Tuesday,
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Wednesday of this week and we are moving on to
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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So Edgar Allan Poe, we're gonna read five or six
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stories from them.
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We they have read one or two of them in
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high school or middle school, and we're gonna review them
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and then move forward.
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And we're gonna read five or six short stories from
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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So after that, we're gonna start getting to our longer
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text. We're gonna be exposed to ancient Greek literature with
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the Odyssey.
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So they did a really nice job in middle school
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in history, giving some background on the Greek gods and
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goddesses. And so they have a good idea of Zeus,
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Poseidon, Haiti's and all the basics.
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So we get deeper into that.
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And we read The Odyssey, which is part two of
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the Elliott we still read.
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Senior year theocracy is a really high interest books.
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I'm looking forward to reading that with them.
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I always dio is a lot we could do with
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it. After that, we'll be reading Murder on the Orient
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Express in middle school, they read Agatha, Agatha Christie's and
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then there were none.
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And so the whenever I asked them what their favorite
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book from middle school was, they often cited this book.
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So I started looking into her other texts that were
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more reading appropriate for high school.
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And this was the main one.
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So there is the movie.
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That's maybe how you heard of this.
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Um, but they also we'll be reading the book this
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year. It is really good.
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If you've seen the movie or they have police don't
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spoil. Landing is it is it is a great ending.
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The next thing or the last large textile read this
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year is Romeo and Juliet.
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This is classic Shakespeare.
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They'll be reading it in.
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Normally we get to it April, May, June, and they'll
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be reading it out loud will be performing in class.
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And so that is a big chunk of our reading
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towards the end of the year.
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It is one of the more fun things to read
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because they get to get out of their seats and
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actually move around.
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Okay, so other than what we read, I'm gonna go
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over quickly.
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What we write and the main two things are one
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the research paper.
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So we will write this over the period of several
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months. It is their first long format, published a research
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paper so they'll be doing research will be finding 10
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sources. They'll be reading them, pulling out quotes coming over
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the thesis, putting it together in a six or seven
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page paper format.
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So this is the biggest grade that they'll have all
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year and possibly in high school.
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They don't have to be worried, though, because it's not
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like, Hey, there's a paper is due November 1st go.
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We work on every single day.
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They work on their hooks.
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They worked on their thesis.
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They work on their introductions.
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I check them.
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I give them small grades on each of those.
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So when they turn in their final one with their
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full paper.
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They're not curious to whether or not they're gonna fail
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or pass.
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They're gonna know what their greatest before they turn it
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in based off of their previous performance in the smaller
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assessments. So this will be started in early November and
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finished around Christmas time.
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The second big chunk is the essays Slash debate.
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So everything that we write, I generally try to gear
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it towards persuasive.
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So most college writing isn't just hate.
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Gather a bunch of information and just drop it on
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a page.
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It's what's your opinion on that and how you can
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support it with Seth information.
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So we do essays.
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In the past, I've done pretty large scale style debates.
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I've done persuasive speeches.
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I focus a lot on public speaking.
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So I'm really hoping that this year, with our crazy
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format of two days a week, we can still find
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time for this.
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Even if it's gonna be a Google meat or resume
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debate. I don't I'm not a huge fan, but if
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it it is what it is, I'll take what I
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can get at this point.
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So we go over not just what to say, but
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how to say it.
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I contact vocal inflections, uh, gestures.
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I'm doing hand gestures down here.
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You can see I was counting and posture and speed
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of your voice.
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So we go over all of that stuff, not just
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content. So it's really important.
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And when students come back to my class years later,
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this is usually what they say helped him helped them
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the most when they were out in the real world.
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All right, so other than that, we do short stories
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in terms of writing poetry.
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Journals opened, the vocabulary were reading, and we're writing every
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single day.
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We're exposing them to vocabulary, which you'll see.
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Um, they already had one quiz on Vaux cap on
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Dhe. They'll be taking 14 more throughout the year, so
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we'll be exposing them to vocab, to reading to writing
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to classics.
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This this curriculum is my favorite curriculum.
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I've taught four different curriculums.
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Now it happens in high school, and the freshman curriculum
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is nice because exposes them to so much.
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It's such a variety, it's hard to get bored.
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But the one thing I will say is the difference
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between General C P and honors English is not just
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the difficulty of the materials because generally the texts are
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the same.
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It's the amount of homework in the amount of work.
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So if you are a parent of a student who,
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you know, like I know my kids, just not gonna
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write the research paper that's a big great and it's
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almost impossible to pass for the year if you don't
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do that paper.
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So if you know they're not going to maybe General
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B'more appropriate for them.
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And if you are thinking maybe 22 nights a week
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for homework is not and not for my kid, maybe
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maybe honors would work better for them.
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But college prep I generally try to keep it 2
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to 3 nights for homework.
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We have one quiz a week on vocab, but we
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could work through our units for reading, and then we
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have either a test or an essay at the end
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of our units.
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So at the end of Edgar Allan Poe, they're gonna
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have an essay on Edgar Allan Poe, and they'll have
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a week or so to write it, and they'll have
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their quizzes sprinkled in with the vote cap.
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So the vocab, so far I've done with Google slides,
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but I may give them their little orange pamphlet books
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out so they can have them on them if they
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want a paper copy of things to study.
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All those words are from the S A T s.
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So not every single word in the books will be
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on the S A T s.
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But every word on the S A T s is
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from the books, so they'll have four over the next
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four years.
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There's 300 words in a book.
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So hopefully by a senior year, out of the 1200
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words they've you know studied, they'll remember a few 100
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of them, and that will really benefit them on their
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S A.
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T s.
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And in life.
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So overall, that's my class.
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I'm really looking forward to making the best out of
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this year, and I, you know, as a teacher the
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thing I love most about teaching is your students, your
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kids, I really do enjoy developing relationships with them, helping
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them succeed.
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And the worst thing I could think of is not
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being able to build those relationships.
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So I'm grateful for the two days that I have,
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and we will make the best of it and the
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remote students.
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I'm grateful for the Wednesday's that we have the 10
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20 minute conversations that we have to get you caught
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up because if not for the relationships, I would be,
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you know, a paper pusher.
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And that's not what I want to dio.
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So continue to reach out, continue to communicate and I
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will do my best.
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Thio. Bring your child through this year.
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Have a great day.