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One thing I'm struggling with this year is my decision to teach an actual College Board AP © Chemistry class. I used to teach this class and spend time on complex topics because they're _cool_. This year, I feel the pressure of the test in May.

My class is also very different from last year. They're not really go-getters to dig into content, so I think I have to back off on some things and focus on the test material this year to get them through it.

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And that sucks.

We're doing atomic structure now which has some really cool empirical science. But it isn't much of the content overall. I need to cut some of the extra reinforcement material I was going to do and focus a little more on things like electron configuration and describing atoms rather than _why_ we know this stuff.

Oh well. Live and learn.

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