Advanced Placement Movies
It's the start of a new school year! We have only had four days of school and I already need a break. It's not great when you 5 out of 13 AP students actually completed the summer homework. I was so proud of the five students that actually put in the work... until I found out from another student not even in AP that one of the five just watched the movies all summer. The conversation went as follows: Student: "What movies did they have to watch for summer homework?" Ms. Abel: "What? They had to read books. Why would I assign people to watch movies for AP summer homework?" Student: "Oh, well *********** just watched movies for his homework." Neat. I just had to let it go. I did give that kid a hard time but ultimately it just wasn't worth all the hassle. Other than that the beginning of the year has gone great... minus the fact that I explained its vs. it's wrong to a class full of freshmen. I'm going to blame th...