Generally, as long as you pay attention, you should be completely fine. Tests aren't a major part of your grade, which is something that Mrs. Corradi advocates for, so if you screw up a test, normal assignments can make up for it. Mrs. Corradi also reviews test material multiple times, so it is hard for you to forget the material. Even if you don't listen to her class, take notes or wait for her test prep material to come out. The test material highly reflects what is going to be on the test, especially the short answer questions. Of course, the downside to this class would be the workload. I always had more work coming from social studies compared to my friends. I would stay up late finishing her packets and textbook readings. However, she does this for a good reason, and the information tends to stick in your brain after talking, reading and reviewing a topic numerous times. In my opinion, it is really hard for someone to fail her class, because of the number of opportunities she provides to bump your grade.

I'd work for almost 2 hours after school some days and 50% of that work was from this coarse alone, Mrs. Corradi assigns a large amount of work, I have talked to other students that take the same coarse but a different teacher and they had way less homework then I did. She says that she tends to try to do DBQ's instead of tests because tests cause people to get a lot more stress. I gotta say, the homework load completely contradicts her goals of reducing stress. This class is the reason why I don't procrastinate anymore because I remember spending at least 3-4 hours trying to catch up on homework that needed to be turned in the next day. Other than the homework load, if 1-2 hours of homework daily isn't a problem for you, I completely recommend this class, Mrs. Corradi is really nice and she's always open to helping her students. Just dont fall behind on the homework, she doesn't care when homework is turned in, it just has to be turned in. But I'd recommend turning homework on the due dates or your load will begin to add up.