Study Hut tutors could not be more excited for the big Finals push. We have students from AVID coming in for private tutoring all week, but we also have a huge event scheduled for Saturday. As in years past, we will be hosting an all day tutoring and study session on campus at Palos Verdes High School. We will have access to multiple different classrooms, and tutors will get to go into different rooms and help students with the specific subjects they need most help with.

This year, there will undoubtedly be math tutoring, science tutoring (including biology tutoring and chemistry tutoring), history tutoring, from World History and EHAP to U.S. History, Government, and Economics tutoring. Math tutoring will include algebra tutoring, geometry tutoring, algebra 2 tutoring, pre-calculus tutoring, trigonometry tutoring, and maybe even some calculus and FTS tutoring.

We will also, of course, have English tutoring, writing tutoring for students with an upcoming final paper, Spanish tutoring (all levels), and probably a few other subjects as well.

The event is free (and required!) for all AVID students, and speaking from past experience, it is an extremely productive event for all students involved. The teachers always come to support, supervise, and offer their knowledge as well.

And best of all, we are getting El Taco Man ordered, so he will be showing up with his cart, and all the tacos any young man or woman can eat. Does it get any better than this? I think not. See you on Saturday.

AVID 10,
Bagels tomorrow! Yay! Thank you bagel families!

Grade POs due. EC to write a letter to last guest speakers: Michelle and Laura.

Room 306 is ours thanks to Ms. Sheridan who wanted to keep the room but realized it was perfect for our AVID class and gave it up for us. A big thank you to Ms. Sheridan who comes back from maternity leave this coming Monday!

Thanks to all who RSVPed (Yes or No). I attended the AVID 12 dinner tonight and it was a great time. I doubly look forward to ours on Wednesday!

Tomorrow we will spend half the class on our essay. Tuesday will be the same and notes are due Tuesday as well.

We had a great lesson from Studyhut’s SP and Rob Stone on Wednesday where we learned that for difficult problems with “easy” answers, it’s a great opportunity to “work backwards” and plug in the answer choices into the problem to find your answer (starting with the middle number). Thanks Rob and SP! HW for practice on this lesson is out of the book and is due our next Wednesday A day in 2 weeks.

Wow! December already…

All the best to all you beautiful people

Wednesday is a tutorial day in AVID. Also, your SAT homework is due. Please have that ready to be turned in to the bin. Hand it in after you go over it with our SAT tutors. The SAT plan is as follows:
1) go over “Plug in the numbers” assignment from two times ago,
2) review any questions on the internet/computer problem assignment (although those were meant to be on the easier side….not to make you feel bad if you got them wrong….).
3) a new lesson will be taught with a new assignment. New assignment will be due on Wedneday November 30.
Tutorial to follow SAT prep.

Friday we will:
1) meeting with tutors (please have your planner for the meeting)
2) finish the 60 Minutes
3) read some Lone Survivor
4) catch up on some recently ignored vocabulary
5) take a long since promised excursion to the market in the last 40 minutes of class
Guest speaker was rescheduled for that date.

Tuesday before Thanksgiving:
Notes due. Guest speaker. Read some Lone Survivor

Monday after Thanksgiving:
Nothing due. Tutorial was cancelled.

Important dates:
Jan. 11, 12 and 17: after school tutorials from 3:00-4:00 with PVHS teachers
Jan. 14 (Saturday): Study sessions from 9:30 to 11:30 and 12:30-2:230. Attend one or both. Taco Man coming from 11:30 to 12:30. Everyone to be fed. This is a reward for an amazing job on the car wash!