Suffering from Too Many English Assignments

This is for the first graders of WK Girls' High School.
Beware when you become a second grader because English assignments (memorizing English words) will try to eat you up - I mean literally.
When I first heard that we have to memorize two units of a vocabulary book every week, I thought it was nothing because each unit only contains 80 words or so.  Then I found out that we also have to memorize derivatives.  I freaked out because then I have to memorize 300 words per week, which is too much for me and I believe for nearly every student.
So, well...What I'm telling you is to memorize the vocab book before becoming a second grader.
-From a second grader who is suffering