On April 29th, teachers are wrapping up and squeezing in lessons or distributing study guides for finals. For instance, Mr. Swan, “blank” teacher, is giving out the pre-final on Monday, May 5th, and it will have 100 questions for the 100 vocabulary words that will be the exact number and vocab words as the final, with 18 days left of his class starting Monday. Hence, based on his responses, he plans to let us have a few weeks of studying and the rest of our free time.

Other teachers, such as Ms. B, prepare the students for what will happen before finals and what they must prepare for them. Ms. B informs the students that the week before exams/finals, she will have a project completion week. For finals, she explained that are 25 students in that one Theater I class. So she is going to randomly pick five different students each day of that week and give them a randomly picked script out of the five other scripts she printed out, and with only five minutes to read over it, they will then perform the script in their own way from what they have learned this year. They will get a script practice it for 5 minutes then perform it while the students who aren’t in it will wright down every thought every detail and/or everything they think about the performance while it’s happening then that same group will go back to studying the script but instead or doing the same things they did the first time there going to critique what they did there going to ad changes where they think changes are fit they are basically going to go over what they just did and try to make it better in 5 minutes then those same 5 students will perform it again but this time the audience will turn into critics and write down questions about why they made these changes and or why did you do this while the performers will haft to defend their choice of improve she mentions that everyday will be 5 different kids so everyone gets a turn she also gave the students a pamphlet at the beginning of the school and said if you can return this to me during finals you she will add points on it to teach us responsibility.

Another example of how teachers prepare their students will be shown with Mrs. Hernandez’s preparation method. He sent out a rubric on what everyone would be tested on, similar to what Mrs. Swan would do. For instance, color guards have to create a 25-second routine and answer four questions, while the jazz band has to solo two choruses of the chart of their choice, then answer three questions. At the same time, percussion/Concert Bands must play three major scales randomly selected from all 12 major scales and answer three questions.