How to excel in geography class - and at Magnet

Trudeau's web site notes print-out
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High school is a game. Suss each teacher's game rules and you'll feel better and better. You will find that each instructor has particular priorities and patterns. Eventually will be able to sense and anticipate how to excel under each teacher.

Students under Robert Trudeau:

1. Slow down on the quizzes and papers. Focus. Work on the accuracy of your reading. My priority is reading comprehension. Have a print-out of your web site notes, highlighted. Read the web site entries every night.

2. Do Indie Work, aka bonus credit work. Each week I'll put topics on MondoTrudeau that will allow you to find a good assignment. The comparison essays you write will be not be easy to compose, but you will earn important points. Indie work must be submitted via GoogleDocs. See the essay guidelines under Comparison Essays.

3. Writer's Workshop, held after school on Thursdays. I'll be here til 4:15 pm. You stop in, write a brief essay and get your bonus points. I get to know you more clearly and give you personal attention in your writing and thinking.

Indie topics, this week:
* Research and write a Comparison Essay on one of these -
- Lewis and Clark and Henry Hudson.
- building of the Erie Canal and the building of the economy of New Orleans.