Questions

I will be checking in for questions until around 9:30 or 10:00.  Breakfast is at 7:15 tomorrow morning in my room.  Hang in there.  It's almost over!

Saturday Review

The review will start at 9:00 am in my room.  Park in the back parking lot and come in through my outside door.  Bring food (if you'd like) and questions.  See you tomorrow!

Tonight's Assignment

There are only TWO school days left before our exam.  You are more than welcome to come in during ANY block, ELT,  or after school.  I am planning on a Saturday morning review as well, but I'd like it to be well attended.  The blog is open for questions.

BTW:  If you missed today due to testing, I went over several past free response questions and gave a practice multiple choice exam.  If you don't have it and will not be there tomorrow PLEASE pick one up before school tomorrow!  Everyone who already has the exam, the first 60 are due tomorrow.  Do more if you have time.

AP Testing

I just received an email stating that cell phones will NOT be allowed in the AP testing rooms this year.  In the past, we have collected cell phones as you entered the room.  This is not the case anymore.  Your test will be invalidated if you bring your cell phone into the room.  My advice:  lock your cell phone in the glovebox of your car.  Don't even bring it inside the school.  You do not want to lose one or two semesters worth of work because of a cell phone issue.

Those of you who will be taking the AP Psych test tomorrow--GOOD LUCK!!:)   We will move along in our reviewing without you, so please plan to come by after school to get what you missed.  It's almost over, so hang in there!

Tonight's Reading

Chapters 34-38 are the Ecology chapters.  I know you are very familiar with most of this material, but I feel quite certain there are a few new concepts (particularly in the Population Ecology chapter) that you may have never heard before.  Over the next week, we will be addressing these concepts, conducting a few labs, and reviewing old material. 

Highly recommended for review:  The Biology AP app, the Barron's book, the exam apps.  Also, the Biology Place website.  (The link is in a previous post, but I can't remember the exact date of the post.  Scroll down and look.)

Test Tomorrow

Yes, the dreaded plant test is tomorrow.  Study your graphic organizers, skim over the chapters, and don't forget the diagrams.  The test covers chapters 31-33.  No essay.

In case you missed today (and will miss tomorrow)

We created a table that includes the levels of organization ( ecosystem, community, population, etc...all the way down to atoms) and six of the eight AP Biology themes.  In case you've forgotten what those are, they are on a red sheet of paper that I gave you back in August. (The course break-down is on the other side of the handout.)  Now---what we are doing is coming up with examples of how that theme relates to each level of organization.  Today, we came up with an example of evolution at each level.  (That's as far as we've gotten.) The goal is tackle one theme per day until we get the entire table filled in.  We can always go back and add examples as we remember/think of new ones.  This is a GREAT way to make you think outside the box and relate those AP Bio themes to things you may or may not even think they apply to.  I was quite impressed with the examples that were offered up today in class.  This is the kind of thinking that will be expected of you on the AP exam free response section--seeing the big picture and not just memorization of detailed facts.

The levels of organization (ecosystem, community, population) introduced chapter 34 and the remainder of the chapter discusses the biomes.  We will summarize the biomes tomorrow in class.  Keep reading.  On the iPOD, go to the Biology AP app and listen to the lecture on Ecology and Behavior (at least the first part of it.)  The information is excellent.