Welcome to my World History Pre-AP and AVID website.  This is going to be a very exciting year.  I am located in the Blue House in 2605.

World History Pre-AP is a great course.  The entire history of the world is at our disposal.  We'll study everything from early man, King Tut, Queen Elilzabeth, The Renaissance and Reformation, Revolutions, and two world wars.  And there is lots in between and beyond.  In Pre-AP we focus on learning how to write history.  We are preparing students to be able to jump into the world of Advanced Placement with United States History in 11th grade. 

AVID is a fantastic program. I began working with the AVID program in 2007.  I will have 2 sections this year.  AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination.  The program works.  Please click on the AVID links to the side to learn more about the program at AHS.  And feel free to ask me questions about it.  I can talk about AVID until I'm blue in the face.

About Mr. Duez: I graduated from Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA in 1992. I was a secondary education, political science and history major. While at Juniata, I played football, baseball, and announced college basketball games for the school radio station.

My wife Norma (she also teaches at AHS - Economics) and I came to Houston in 1994. We started our careers in Galena Park ISD.  I began my career in education as a sixth grade World Cultures teacher and coach of football, basketball and track. In 1997 I became the technology specialist at the school.

I left education in 1999 and began working at American General and then moved on to Dynegy and Lyondell in Information Technology. In 2004, I decided to come back home to teaching. I was very pleased to work close to home in Humble ISD. I am very happy to be back at home in the classroom where I belong. I am looking foward to working with the students, faculty and staff of Atascocita High School. Every day is an adventure and I hope this website can help students and their parents have a link into the classroom from home. Communication is a big key to motivating students and reminding them of the path needed for success.

[pictured to top right: Mr. Duez with a Roman Soldier outfit on during the study of Chapter 5 - The Roman Empire.]