Mission San Jose High School Reviews
41717 Palm Avenue, Fremont, California 94539, United States
Make sure that you study everything in his unit review guide. The test questions are really weird, so you need some common sense for those.
I had Mr. Aucoin for AP Music Theory. The class is pretty smooth sailing and there is a lot of free time. The tests are inconsistent and have varying material. Make sure to know nonharmonic tones because he tests them a lot. Make sure that you practice some sight singing on your own because we don't practice that enough.
During the pandemic, we had online school. This is for APUSH: Make sure to take notes during his class presentations, he goes pretty fast so don't take down every single word. He will ask questions so just be ready to respond. Theres about a chapter of notes due every week, a test every monday and frequent projects. When you join the class, be prepared for a lot of writing and use of notebooks.
If you're taking Ms. Carattini's class for english your going to either have the time of your life or the complete opposite. She teaches both honors and cp english courses for 11th graders and based on my experience(honors), she clearly enjoyed and treated her honors students much better than her cp kids. But regardless of which course you take, know that you'll have to do a lot of writing in the class everyday. But it isn't hard or boring at all. Every day when you enter her class, she will give a prompt for students to write down in their own notebook. The prompts are always fun and interesting so it makes participating really fun. Just know that although she always takes volunteers and never picks people on the spot, participation is EXTREMELY important to her. She has a dot system where she puts a dot on her seating chart every time you participate. Most of the time participation is capped at 90 which can make it hard to do well in that category. Also note, she will take your phone away if she sees it (but she has charging ports in the back if your phone dies lol). She also gives vocab quizzes which can start off quite simple, but as more words are added, the longer and harder they can become. The word's aren't challenging, but the sheer amount makes them a challenge. Also she loves to give presentation projects and always makes activities where you have to participate in front of the class. We don't get too many essays on the books we are reading but we do get an end of the book test which is really easy for the most part. Overall the class is extremely fun to be in if you love to talk and have conversation with your peers. Otherwise she may not be the teacher for you. No matter what though, you will definitely learn something every day.