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Saturday Morning Coffee Part Two

Remember last month when I told the office to schedule only one section of AP Language? Well, so far I have 40 students who told me they planned on taking the course next year... . Of course, only 32 actually returned the contract. As I saw kids on the last I asked them if they were still planning on taking the course. They all said yes... shining me on? Who knows. I'd love to have two sections of AP Language, but that's going to mean some sheduling shifting next year. I guess I'll just have to wait until July 18 and see how many summer assignments come in.

In the meantime, I'm starting my own homework. Next week is the AP conference. This year, I harrassed the principal to register me, so I was registered last month. This means I got an actual "new" course, instead of a last minute shit-we-registered-to-many-people-but-not-enough-to-make-two-full-sections-of-new-and-experienced course. Hopefully this will mean I'll get information about teaching course instead of being focused on one question. The AP Language course I took spent three days talking about the synthesis question - important information, but for two days I had no idea what anyone was talking about. I'm also hoping that this will mean a more organized course since the instructor has had a couple of months to plan.

To get college credit I have to read a book and write a paper on something. I'll give a review of the book when I finish. So far, it seems pretty good.

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