AP Camp Day 3

Okay, I've about had it. I simply cannot sit for that long and be productive in any way. There's nothing wrong with the class, but as much as I like Calculus (really), I can't just sit in one place and work on it for days on end.

So in my usual way, I rebel around the edges. Today I came about 10 minutes late. I got up several times during each session to use the rest room and stretch my legs. I went out for lunch instead of having a 3rd identical bag lunch catered by the college board. I don't know what I'll do tomorrow, though being late is pretty much a must. It's nice that I'm not taking it for credit.

Not that that would be a problem anyway. I seem to be in the middle of every discussion and I feel like I'm talking way too much. Some of the other teachers ask me questions and the instructor says things like, "Frank, you've been doing this a while (really?) how have you done this?" I feel bad for some of the others. They're kind of freaking out.

Today a sales rep for a publishing company came in to shill one of the textbooks we're getting (yes, one of the perks of going to these things is free textbooks. Booyah!). She is not only over the top perky, but she's talking at a volume more appropriate to an auditorium than a classroom. She leaves and we're all wondering if she's like that all the time.

Tomorrow we wrap it up. Thinking through how the school year went I guess we're on a topic I was covering in March or so, so I guess that makes sense. Last time I did one of these things the instructor told us a lot more about the test itself and spent a lot of time trying to convince us to be test readers. This is where you go to an undisclosed location and spend 10 days grading the free response section of the AP test. You are assigned one question to grade,  you're trained on it and then you sit at a table with 9 other teachers and grade batches of question 5 Form B, with everything you do checked and double checked. Sounds like probably not the best plan for me. The one thing I learned about the test is that you don't need to do arithmetic. As in you can leave an answer as a series of things multiplied and added together.

So I guess I'll check in tomorrow after I'm done if there's anything new to say. In the meantime, hope that my butt recovers feeling before the morning.