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    <title>How To Get Ready For High School.</title>
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      <![CDATA[Going into High School? Have no idea what to do and expect? Follow these guides and you'll be good.]]>
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        <![CDATA[Courage]]>
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        <![CDATA[Your School]]>
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        <![CDATA[A friend who's a couple of  grades ahead (optional)]]>
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        <![CDATA[Your Principal]]>
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        <![CDATA[A Notebook]]>
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        <title>Ask your school.</title>
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          <![CDATA[Before going into High School ask your principal if you can ask to make a field trip to your new school. People will have fun and thank you.]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Before going into High School ask your principal if you can ask to make a field trip to your new school. People will have fun and thank you.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Ask near the end of the school year. Going to new school near the begning you might forget somethings. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Ask near the end of the school year. Going to new school near the begning you might forget somethings.</p>]]>
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        <title>Bring A notebook.</title>
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          <![CDATA[When going to destination bring a notebook you can write what they wear (If not uniforms), what they do, and so on. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>When going to destination bring a notebook you can write what they wear (If not uniforms), what they do, and so on.</p>]]>
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        <title>Have A Friend?</title>
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          <![CDATA[Have a friend a couple grades ahead of you? Ask what they did in theire first year.]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Have a friend a couple grades ahead of you? Ask what they did in theire first year.</p>]]>
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        <title>Your New School.</title>
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          <![CDATA[Congrats! Welcome to your new school. Have Courage. Be brave and try to have fun.]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Congrats! Welcome to your new school. Have Courage. Be brave and try to have fun.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Go to a Guidance Consuler if you have problems with anything. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Go to a Guidance Consuler if you have problems with anything.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Try to be nice with the Seniors, they can do very VERY bad things to you!]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Try to be nice with the Seniors, they can do very <span class="caps">VERY</span> bad things to you!</p>]]>
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