If you believe in yourself, you will know how to ride a bike!

How you feeling sophomores? Countdown is on...bring your game faces! We hope that boot camp has been beneficial for you; don't forget to utilize all of the resources for you on the website, the packets you've been working on, and the materials you received in your AP testing room. In the meantime, I've invited some dear friends to motivate you...

Totally kidding, I've never met these kids in my life. But how could this not pump you up?! SO CUTE.

As for the freshmen, we explored rap as poetry in class today. While it was too brief an exploration for my liking, we hope that you were able to draw some similarities between the two methods of expression. Rap and poetry both share an emphasis on general flow or rhythm, frequent uses of figurative language and rhyme, and the desire to convey a thought-provoking message. You know that Stanton and I really just loved the chance to talk about rap in class, or argue about rappers we think are important. Just as a fun little visual, if you ever wondered which rapper or hip hop artist has the largest vocabulary, here's a chart you can look at (or buy if you really wanted) which shows the artists that utilizes the most extensive word choice. The Roots are at the top of the list!

Lolz. 

Don't forget that you have a grammar check tomorrow, freshmen! Get your apostrophes and your semicolons ready.

Keep on truckin' through the mass chaos that is your study packet of notes, sophomores! GO GO GO!

-Virdin out