She was a student in my 60-80 wpm Theory class on Friday.  Today, Monday morning, she was one of two people to raise their hands to read back a certain section at 100.  Impressive.  Clarity and control are the answer.

I handed out Page 2 of Essential Phrases from Steno Diva.  The list has the phrases, but not the outlines.  Their homework is to work out the strokes.  I don't care if they use the phrase or if they write it out.  But they must know how they are going to write those strokes when they appear on a test. 

I used an hour of class to review each appendix in the back of the Theory book and in the dictionary.  There is a heck of a lot of information in the back of them there books, by golly. 

Today's 60-80 wpm class did a 14 minute easy Testimony drill and read back an extremely difficult article on North and South Korea with all of the names.  They performed admirably on both types of drill.  The long drill was easy.  The short drill was hard.  Both of them were challenging, but within their abilities.  Watch out for hard drills that are long.  They can be debilitating.