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Mr. Kovachs class went fairly well this semester. I came back to fort about a month into this year. By then the rest of the class had been finished with the first two chapters of a book called The Crucible. This did make it a little bit difficult to catch up, but not very much. To come into a new school and have to catch up on a fairly decent sized book, when I can't stand reading anyway, was probably my only bad experience in the class. I had to get caught up on the book but we started another story before I could. When we started Goodnight and Good Luck it was much easier for me to stay with the movie and understand what was going on, because I was here when we started it. We watched the movie so it technically wasn't a story, but a movie

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