# Should I be stretching out 3 lessons to last 5 days?

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/should-i-be-stretching-out-3-lessons-to-last-5-days/19225>\
**Category:** CS Principles\
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/should-i-be-stretching-out-3-lessons-to-last-5-days/19225 "2018-08-28T20:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![aharnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@aharnold](https://forum.code.org/u/aharnold)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/should-i-be-stretching-out-3-lessons-to-last-5-days/19225/1 "2018-08-28T20:44:01Z")

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I’m trying to prepare for the year and I’m struggling to figure out how to spread the lessons around when the lessons are planned around 5-minute classes. But when the lesson plan itself has 50-minute lessons, my classes are 54 minutes each and I see my students every day, what am I supposed to do to make the lessons last longer? Or are these lessons told in a way that makes one think that every class is every other day?

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**Author:** ![gtwrobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/gtwrobel/32/3576_2.png) [@gtwrobel](https://forum.code.org/u/gtwrobel)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/should-i-be-stretching-out-3-lessons-to-last-5-days/19225/2 "2018-08-28T23:13:31Z")

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@aharnold our experience is that for teachers who are using our CSP curriculum for the first time the lessons in Unit 1 in particular tend to go a little long. The pacing guide tries to account for that fact. For more help thinking about pacing I highly recommend you check out page 43 of the [Curriculum Guide](https://curriculum.code.org/csp-18/).

Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![aharnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@aharnold](https://forum.code.org/u/aharnold)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/should-i-be-stretching-out-3-lessons-to-last-5-days/19225/3 "2018-08-28T23:20:58Z")

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This is actually really good advice. I skipped over this recommendation for pacing at first because I had already read the pacing notes in the CS Discoveries curriculum and they’re not as detailed as I would’ve wanted if I recall correctly.

You’re an ace, sir.