Julie Hubbard
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What kind of test questions does this teacher use most often (choose one):
Multiple ChoiceIs the teacher available for extra help during study halls, lunchtime, before or after school, etc.?
Almost AlwaysThe teacher responds to emails promptly. Do you...
Strongly AgreeThe teacher posts in-class materials online for reference (slides, etc.):
Almost AlwaysThe teacher lets us know at the beginning of the course and along the way how much each part of the class (homework, papers, quizzes and tests) counts towards our total grade:
Strongly AgreeHow much homework does this teacher assign?
Way too muchThe amount of writing required in this class is:
Very HighThe teacher allows us to use technology in class (e.g. laptop, calculator, smart pen, etc.)
Almost AlwaysHow much memorization is required to do well in this teacher’s course?
Very HighWhat advice would you give yourself if you were just starting the class now?
Class of 2020
This class is almost entirely writing prompts and essays, and as far as I could tell, the quality of essays barely mattered, but correct grammar, fulfilling the requirements of the prompt, and turning it in on time did. Don't try to make a masterpiece, just get it done by the end of the week. I also didn't need to study for the tests, since as long as you read the book in question, they were easy, but that might vary between different people. Make sure that you keep an eye on the list of assignments on the whiteboard to make sure you don't miss one, and whenever you're done, instead of talking or messing around, ask her what the next assignment is so that you'll be ahead of other people. Once, without saying anything, she put an assignment on the list, and I was done early, so I asked her what I could do and she pointed them out to me. Most of the other people in the class didn't do that assignment and only found out weeks after it was due. I would also recommend (with your parents' help) attempting to move out of her class into another writing class because it worked for multiple students I knew, and they seemed less stressed afterwards when some other students were.
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Class of 2020
Overall, because of the questions asked, my review seemed pretty positive, but this was by far the worst English class I've had. Every day, she said the starter for the day, if it was early in the week maybe gave a writing prompt, and then sat down at her computer doing nothing for the rest of the period. About the starters, she never went over them. Each day had a question, and at the end of the week you would hand in your starter sheet for the week. On Monday, she would hand them back and wouldn't give any explanations unless you confronted her before or sometimes during class. The grading was like a test; she would take off 20 points if you got one out of five wrong. This means that (especially since she never went over anything other than occasional information in the starter slides) if you got all five wrong, you could get a zero even if you did it and turned it in each week. Speaking of grading, her grading for the near-weekly essays was among the worst I've seen. I couldn't see any correlation between actual quality of the writing and final grade. I did, however, notice that she would circle grammar and spelling mistakes and take off points for them, which, especially in the seventh grade, seemed like a misattribution of importance. She would also take off between 5 and 20 points for being late, which seems reasonable, except I couldn't ever figure out why she sometimes took off 5 or 15, and sometimes took off 20 points for what seemed like a very similar time frame.