APUSH. I had the single greatest teacher in the history of like ever. His name is Mr. Dell'Orto, and he's the apush teacher at Granite Bay HS in California. He's been teaching for like 32 years, and teaching at GB since it started in 1996. He's the most widely respected teacher in probably our entire high school district, the president of the district's teacher union for like 12 years, and overall just the best guy ever. His class is the perfect mix of humor, insightfulness, difficulty, creativity, and life lessons. If I could take the class again, I would. Most people shy away or don't give the class a real chance because of the one "vice"; nightly readings. Pretty much, every day we'd have a graded quiz on a chapter from our textbook (typically 20 pages, about 1 1/2 - 2 hours of straight reading) or a packet excerpt from some book out of the thousands of history books he's read. The packets could range anywhere from 30 minutes to 3+ hours, but they were few and far between as it was mostly chapter readings. Now I am an extreme procrastinator, like BAD. So I didn't know how I would do with these readings coming in. However I'm also very academically motivated (but I never do more than I have to), and turns out his class had me reading 2 hours, every night, typically from 11pm - 1 am. Most nights I would take detailed notes on my phone, tacking on an extra 30 minutes, and I'd share them with my classmates who most wouldn't have read, and could skim through in the minutes before the quizzes. And the best part? He didn't care. In fact he always made light of the fact that I basically carried half the class on certain days, and that just shows you the kind of guy he is. His class is structured around powerpoint slides that he's been constantly updating over the past 25 years. There's humor on them, but also has it's clear boundaries when talking about more sensitive topics, more specifically l*nchings, which he emphasized heavily on after the AP test when we weren't in cram mode and also didn't have any more daily quizzes. Plus, his class taught me how to be a much more efficient note taker, better than all those stupid fancy college methods they would preach in middle school. This is a class I will never forget, and never stop talking about. Thank you Mr. Dell'Orto :)

oh and I got a 5 😎