10 Things About This Week: 1. We have been reviewing heavily all week for the EOCs. 2nd block is striking fear into my heart as fully 3/4 of the class are on the bubble between passing and not passing the exam (a graduation requirement!) and they can’t be bothered to study twenty vocab words a…
read more »The school year, in its perverse way, is both flying and crawling toward its inevitable end. May has been and will continue to be a packed month. Once the AP test was over (relatively successfully, by all accounts… we shall see), it has been a rush of last minute field trips (we’re going to D.C.…
read more »In the middle of the school year I inherited a truly wonderful group of AP US History students after their teacher left to take a job at DPI. The AP US History exam, all three and a half hours of it, is coming up this Friday and I am SO incredibly nervous. I don’t remember being…
read more »Student: “Ms. W, if I got the swine flu they’d probably have to close the school, right?” Me: “Well, yes, probably.” Student: *cough cough* *ahem* “Oink.” Me: “It’s the flu. Try sneezing.”
read more »"Donta what *are* you doing back here?" "Not much, Ms. W, just chillin."
