Dear New Calculus Students,
    This class is one of the most difficult classes you will take in your high school career.  It is not a class that you can just sit back, relax, and earn some free points.  You must be willing to work hard and study in this class.  Make sure you pay attention and do your homework every night.  Once the year really begins, you may want to drop out of the class.  Don't.  Keep going because it will get easier and everything will make sense to you in the end (maybe).

    If it does make sense to you in the end, then you have the opportunity to take the AP test to possibly earn a credit for college.  I would recommend you take this and pay the fee to take the test and possibly save you the other few hundred dollars that you would have to pay for the class in college. Just make sure that you study and prepare for the test and I'm sure that you will do fine.
   
    Hope that you get Miss. Finn as a teacher.  She is an amazing person.  She is a teacher that cares deeply about her students and takes her career very seriously.  She will push you hard and will not let you ever give up.  She is very nice and understanding and will help you with whatever you find difficult in the class (and chances are that will be most of the material.)  Just make sure you do your work and DO NOT SLEEP in her class and you will remain on her good side forever.

Best of wishes to you in your last year of high school here at Plainfield South hopefully it will be as good for you as it was for all of us.
Sincerely,
    A Former Calculus Student