Advice From Algebra I Students

At the goal of each schoolhouse year, I give my students a writing assignment.  They moan.  They groan.  They complain that this is tiddler abuse.  But, I intend they genuinely bask it inwards the end.  Maybe.  I practice know they bask making fun of my jokes, at least.  If you're looking for peculiarly interesting commentary from my students, last sure enough to banking concern represent out the "Ms. Hagan" comments below.

The assignment: Write a missive of the alphabet to a hereafter educatee taking Algebra 1.

I instruct students that their advice needs to fill upward up 3/4 of a page.  This year, nosotros genuinely had to flexure our papers into fourths thus students could order if they had written enough.

Here are the highlights.  I broke the comments into several primary categories.

NOTEBOOKS

You should ever conduct hold notes.  If you lot miss a day, together with thus become to individual who has the notes.  These notes volition assist you lot mainly at the goal of the twelvemonth close testing time.  Make sure enough you lot choose handgrip of a composition notebook instead of a spiral notebook.

You should ever conduct hold notes together with if you lot miss a hateful solar daytime become to individual who has the notes you lot missed. 

You are going to intend this is an fine art cast because nosotros had to practice thus much fine art materials inwards this notebook.  I genuinely hated it BTW.   

This cast is really colorful together with artistic.  Make sure enough you lot maintain upward amongst your notes because you're going to demand them.

The notebooks.  They aren't fun.  They're boring.  No 1 likes doing it.

We brand notes that conduct hold a long fourth dimension to do, but they assist us empathise things better.

You demand to conduct hold all your notes.  They volition assist inwards the end.

Do the notebook because it helps out a lot.

CLASSROOM RULES

Do non beak during cast because she volition non move past times along the lesson if you lot practice non last quiet.  By the way, encourage your neighbors to last placidity during cast because you'll become far problem only every bit much every bit they do.

She won't maintain teaching if you lot are talking.  She volition sit down together with hold off forever.  But Ms. Hagan is a groovy teacher, together with she volition brand sure enough you lot succeed.

Don't slumber inwards cast because teachers larn mad at you lot for existence tired.

Stay awake.  Teachers tend to frown upon sleeping inwards class.  

Do non throw pencils through the hole inwards the flooring past times the windows.

Oh, together with don't cuss; good at to the lowest degree non loud plenty for her to hear you, or you'll larn a slip.

You conduct hold to pay attending inwards this cast to pass.

Phones, if you lot desire to maintain them for the residue of the day, you lot mightiness only desire to maintain it up.  She volition conduct hold it together with maintain it.

Well, last expert together with maintain your telephone pose up, together with you lot shouldn't conduct hold a problem.

She doesn't similar racial jokes, annoying sounds, desk or chair flipping, throwing, tossing, kicking, or shooting, leaving materials out of place, yelling inwards class, constantly wearing hats, ignoring her, or making fun of her together with maxim she is worshiping the devil.  If you lot practice this, you lot volition FAIL.

If you lot desire to last inwards trouble, together with thus you're inwards the perfect class.  She doesn't similar people talking acre she is giving notes.

Don't shoot trash inwards the trash tin forcefulness out effort if you lot miss you lot volition conduct hold to alternative upward 2 things inwards the floor. 

Never wearable hats, throw trash, or play on your phone.  She'll conduct hold your materials together with maintain it forever. 

MS. HAGAN 

This is past times far my easiest class.  The instructor inwards this cast makes everything simple.  If you're inwards here, only know that Ms. Hagan is the sweetest together with funniest instructor here.  

Words of advice: Be quiet!  She does conduct hold a hateful side!  

I volition miss existence inwards her class.  

When she is inwards a bad mood, she volition post you lot inwards the hallway for your death.

Ms. Hagan's cast is never fun, thus don't count on it.  Math is terribly boring.  Always larn answers from the hot girls (if whatever inwards class).

Listen to Ms. Hagan.  She is ordinarily right.  She doesn't similar me because I'm a genius together with really expert looking.

This instructor has literally never ate whatever sort of meat.  She hasn't had the experience of eating a expert ol' fashioned deer steak which I genuinely intend she is miss out.  She doesn't similar to fish, thus I genuinely don't intend she is American.  

She lets you lot hear to about genuinely cool tunes, thus if you lot larn the endangerment to hear to music on the smartboard, brand her allow you lot hear to the gradient intercept cast song.

Be prissy to Ms. Hagan, together with she volition last prissy to you.

Don't brand her mad or she volition give you lot a lot of work.  

Ms. Hagan isn't genuinely a bad teacher.  If you lot heard sure enough things, they are wrong.  Never, I hateful never, larn on her bad side. 

Ms. Hagan tin forcefulness out last difficult to larn along amongst sometimes, but she's non also bad.  

This banking concern notation is a waste materials of fourth dimension beyond this point.  Ha Ha Ha Ha  I pose bacon inwards Ms. Hagan's coffee.  Don't express joy at her because she's a vegetarian, has a tractor fetish, together with has a immature human who lives inwards Australia.

If you lot don't empathise something, enquire nigh it.  She'll effort to assist you lot understand.  Sometimes, trust me, it doesn't work!

If you lot don't understand, enquire her for help, together with she volition effort together with assist you.  But, you lot conduct hold to give honor to larn respect.

You conduct hold to move past times the Algebra 1 EOI, together with if you lot don't, you lot conduct hold to conduct hold this cast again.  Ms. Hagan does NOT desire that to happen.

Ms. Hagan is a prissy teacher, together with if you lot pay attending this cast volition last easy.

Ms. Hagan is a vegetarian together with sometimes brings nutrient but won't share. :(

Don't larn on her bad side or you lot volition conduct hold a bad day.  Trust me.  I know.

In venture to move past times this class, you lot conduct hold to pay attending to her when she is giving instructions or giving you lot advice to pose inwards your notes.  But, to a greater extent than than anything, you lot demand to rest on Ms. Hagan's expert side.  If you lot don't, together with thus you lot volition become far problem a lot.  Even if she doesn't similar you, she volition rest later on schoolhouse together with assist you lot amongst whatever you lot need.

GENERAL ADVICE

Watch your back.  People are untrustable together with stupid.

If you're gonna cheat, at to the lowest degree pose your get upward on the paper.  

You larn to practice origami at the goal of the year.  So, hang on.  

Don't usage the bath on the commencement floor.

You'll practice about fun things sometimes.

Warning: You volition conduct hold to practice this stupid assignment.  

Basically, it's impossible to neglect unless you lot effort to or you lot are lazy similar me together with only don't care.  Then you lot volition neglect pretty easily.  

This cast tin forcefulness out last slow or difficult based on what you lot decide.  

We convey pie on pi hateful solar daytime together with larn to consume it.

The graphing purpose of the twelvemonth is really hard.  No sleeping inwards class.  It never industrial plant out good for you.  

It volition be hard, you lot will fail.  

GRADING SCALE

First, you lot demand to know nigh her grading scale.  I don't concord amongst it, but you lot might.  It starts at A, together with thus to B, together with thus to Not Yet or NY.  When you lot larn an NY (Not Yet) on your paper, you lot basically failed it, but she'll allow you lot redo it until you lot larn an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or a B.  What gets me is that until the fourth dimension that you lot larn an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or a B on it, the newspaper is pose inwards every bit a 0 (zero).

Your grades conduct hold to last an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or B or you lot won't pass.  I don't know why.  It's dumb.  It genuinely is.

Her grading organization is kinda stupid.  You move past times or fail.

Ms. Hagan's grading organization is genuinely helpful because she lets you lot re-do function until you lot larn an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or B.

JOKES

On Funny Friday, Ms. Hagan ordinarily has a cheesy joke inwards mind.  Just express joy at it whether it's funny or not.  It volition brand her laugh.  

You volition demand to last funny inwards this cast because the alone agency to larn through this cast is to brand everything a joke.

Pretend to express joy at her jokes because they are horrible.  Just holler upward that her jokes such.  Just pretend you lot similar her together with practice the scatter plot.

Algebra 1 wasn't a struggle.  Act similar her jokes are funny.  THEY AREN'T.  Listening to them was bad.  

Don't order whatever racist dark jokes.

Make fun of her jokes.  Maybe 1 hateful solar daytime they volition larn better.  If you lot order jokes brand sure enough that she can't hear you, or they demand to last G-rated.

On Fridays, don't tell racist jokes.

Oh Lord, her jokes.  They aren't funny.  I intend people only express joy at them to brand her experience good.  Her jokes aren't good.  Help her out!

BTW Laugh at her jokes fifty-fifty if they aren't funny.  Guys, assist her amongst them.

Ms. Hagan makes wonderful jokes, thus last sure enough to express joy at them.

Oh!  And, Ms. Hagan's jokes aren't that good.  So assist her out together with express joy anyways.  Sorry Ms. Hagan, gotta pose a grin on your human face upward somehow.

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