Huntington North consists of two lunches, A and B. I have A lunch and they are about thirty minutes. We used to have about 45 minute lunches until the Freshman last year always got into fights. Since there were so many fights, we lost 15 minutes of lunch. This years lunch isn’t as bad as last years even though this year I don’t get to leave school and eat what I want. I also hate styrofoam and this year they have styrofoam plates. I have lunch with a few of my friends but I’d rather have a longer lunch period with my friend Peyton. Now I sit with Emily and lunch goes pretty fast. But after lunch I go and work and run passes for the main office so it’s not the worst.

Tech Com is a higher up English class that is full of essays and ready to get you into the work force outside of school. Clearly, in tech com you are going to learn how to write. In class we have a done a semester overview and we will also learn how to write our resumes. In tech com, I personally expect to learn how to make writing an essay easier and to help me make it more understandable. I tend to struggle when it comes to indenting and using the correct grammar. On the note of indenting, I know you’re supposed to indent whenever you start a new subject or sometimes after you use a transition word. But there’s people who use transition words all the time and don’t indent. I just want to be able to understand when is the right time to indent and make my essay look correct. Therefor, with grammar, I always switch up from present to past than even sometimes future. I want to know if there is an exercise that’ll help me prevent doing that. Yes we have done it in previous classes with Bellringers, but when it comes to essays, I struggle. All in all, I just hope your first year of teaching is outstanding and I’m so glad to have you as a teacher. Let’s make this year a good one 🙂

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