Review time

The semester is almost over at Ypsilanti High School. They have regular classes this week, then next week Monday's a holiday (King Day) and then they have exams on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Some classes also have a test coming up this week, so the students have a lot of review to do. In Mr. Ambrose's physics class, he gave answers to one worksheet, answered questions, and gave out a quiz review worksheet. While they worked on it, I helped some of the students who were having trouble. I think most of them are going to do well, but there are a few who still need some work to get up to speed. In Ms. Colwell's advanced algebra class, they were working with quadratic equations and completing the square - taking a standard-form parabola and using the completing the square technique to put it into the form y - h = a(x - k)^2. Then, after their lesson, they had a quiz. During the lesson, Ms. Colwell gave them one or two problems to work out, and I helped a few students. Some of them don't even try when a problem is put up on the overhead for them to work, unless someone comes over and works with them - it isn't that they don't know how, because they do the problem correctly, but they just don't seem to want to bother.

Friday I'll be there, helping students as they review in class for their final exams, then next week I'll be off - as I said, Monday's a holiday, then they have three days of exams, then Friday is a day off for them. Since the new matches haven't been made yet, after the exams I'll return to the same classes, and keep working with them until the new TA/teacher matches are made. After that, I don't know if I'll be working with the same teachers or with different ones - we'll see how that works out.