Mr Larsen is an amazing teacher, give him a chance and actually involve yourself in the class conversation and he'll be one of your favorite teachers. His class is generally pretty easily followed, currently we're doing shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet which isn't all that hard to remember because the plot is pretty simple with the details being the important part. Test materials are always reviewed in class, we get told about the test and the subject it's on- not the details and exact wording obviously but enough information to study if required.