Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Chemistry Regents Review Sessions
Part of the reason for the unprecedented Regents results of my previous classes at St. Anthony's and at Smithtown HS is the great number of review sessions and the tremendous quantity of review that takes place at these review sessions.
I will answer ANY question, no matter how simple or complex. Do not worry about hearing, "HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT?!" That is not going to happen. I APPRECIATE that you are at the review sessions and I am there to help you quickly and without ceremony. I encourage ALL of you to attend; those who are already doing well might join the 100's club, a very rare and distinct group of excellence, as a result of the reinforcement and extra information. Those who have performed fairly or poorly can succeed with a serious and prolonged concerted effort through June 20th, the day of the exam.
The tone of these sessions will be light/low pressure (unlike in class!) but we will be almost all business and efficiency. We can play ULTIMATE frisbee after each session if you would like to.
Each session has a given INITIAL review topic. There is a QUESTION SHEET that you should download and look over before each review session. Get to the review session at the scheduled time because I go through all of the review sheet questions before continuing with any general questions on any topic from the review group. If you have to arrive later, you may still do so but enter quietly and be ready to work.
You will EARN POINTS towards your fourth quarter average, five points for each hour of review that you actively participated in. That means that if you attend ten sessions at three hours each, you will have the equivalent of scoring 150 out of 150 on a test taken this quarter towards your average! That can be a very nice boost PLUS you will end up doing much better than you would have on the Regents without this formal review. A good Regents grade will also nicely lift your course average!!
The schedule with Room #'s will be posted soon.
For a strong start, our FIRST review session will be on Thursday afternoon from 1PM to 5PM (room to be posted soon).
The topic will be "Physical Properties of Matter", which is the longest unit in the review book.
You do NOT have to wear your uniforms to ANY review session. Be comfortable and learn is all...
History has shown that those who need review the MOST tend to come to the fewest review sessions ( the OPPOSITE of what should occur!) and that continued apathy definitely hurt most of those students who ended up with either very low averages or failure and summer school.
Do NOT let that happen this year. I will be looking for certain people at EVERY review session and others at MOST of the review sessions. If I do not see you, you WILL hear from me and I will talk to you seriously about your problem and its consequences.
I will answer ANY question, no matter how simple or complex. Do not worry about hearing, "HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT?!" That is not going to happen. I APPRECIATE that you are at the review sessions and I am there to help you quickly and without ceremony. I encourage ALL of you to attend; those who are already doing well might join the 100's club, a very rare and distinct group of excellence, as a result of the reinforcement and extra information. Those who have performed fairly or poorly can succeed with a serious and prolonged concerted effort through June 20th, the day of the exam.
The tone of these sessions will be light/low pressure (unlike in class!) but we will be almost all business and efficiency. We can play ULTIMATE frisbee after each session if you would like to.
Each session has a given INITIAL review topic. There is a QUESTION SHEET that you should download and look over before each review session. Get to the review session at the scheduled time because I go through all of the review sheet questions before continuing with any general questions on any topic from the review group. If you have to arrive later, you may still do so but enter quietly and be ready to work.
You will EARN POINTS towards your fourth quarter average, five points for each hour of review that you actively participated in. That means that if you attend ten sessions at three hours each, you will have the equivalent of scoring 150 out of 150 on a test taken this quarter towards your average! That can be a very nice boost PLUS you will end up doing much better than you would have on the Regents without this formal review. A good Regents grade will also nicely lift your course average!!
The schedule with Room #'s will be posted soon.
For a strong start, our FIRST review session will be on Thursday afternoon from 1PM to 5PM (room to be posted soon).
The topic will be "Physical Properties of Matter", which is the longest unit in the review book.
You do NOT have to wear your uniforms to ANY review session. Be comfortable and learn is all...
History has shown that those who need review the MOST tend to come to the fewest review sessions ( the OPPOSITE of what should occur!) and that continued apathy definitely hurt most of those students who ended up with either very low averages or failure and summer school.
Do NOT let that happen this year. I will be looking for certain people at EVERY review session and others at MOST of the review sessions. If I do not see you, you WILL hear from me and I will talk to you seriously about your problem and its consequences.
# posted by C @ 5:33 PM 
