temperate adj.
moderate, mild; restrained
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Raf Green, Master Academic Mentor
Raf has more the fifteen years experience as a teacher and tutor. He began as an SAT instructor in Chicago and soon moved on to work with students on nearly all of the college and grad school admissions tests. He is also a television writer and screenwriter. He has enjoyed transmitting his experiences as a writer into a wide variety of writing classes. He has worked with students on many different kinds of writing, including: college and grad school essays, history and English papers, poetry, story writing and screenplays. He loves working with all kinds of students from first graders to senior citizens. In his free time he can be found on his surfboard somewhere off the coast of Malibu.
Raf is available for: AP English, AP Literature, AP US History, SAT, SAT II Literature, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, Math through Geometry, Earth Science, Social Studies
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