Weekly Update!

Midterms come out this week. Hope everyone does well!

This week's agenda:

Monday -

• IB World Geography (Mr. Sutton) - We will be having a quiz on the climate map. Be sure to study the various climate zones and key cities.
  
• IB Theatre I (Mrs. Brooks) - The journal entry on Commedia dell'Arte will be due. Be sure to mention all of the activities that we did, including but not limited to the exaggerated movements, the research papers, the video in class, the character status exercise with the cards, etc.
• AP Calculus BC (Mr. Bobbitt) - The homework for Sections 2.3 through the rest of Chapter 2 will be due. We will also almost surely be having a quiz on related rates. Be sure to study up on these types of problems, as well as implicit differentiation in general.
• AP U.S. History (Mr. Rose) - The first 31 questions in the Chapters 6-9 packet will be due as a quiz grade. Remember that all quiz grades for the quarter will be averaged as a test grade.
  
• AP Chemistry (Mrs. Smith) - The homework for Section 5.2 will be "due for discussion". Interpret that as you wish, but since nothing was done with the Section 5.1 homework, it's unclear as to what will happen with this section.
• AP English Language and Composition (Ms. Harvilchuck) - The first thirty prepositions should be memorized.
• French II (Mme. May) - There is a test on chapter one today.
  
• Pre-IB Chemistry (Ms. Nagel) - The questions from page 89 are due today. Also, for some classes, she will be checking the homework that was due Friday.
• AP Biology (Ms. Bidwell) - The Catalysis pre-lab will be due today.
• AP European History (Mr. Jones) - The study questions for section 15 (Palmer and Colton) will be due today.

• Pre-IB Chemistry (Ms. Smith) - We are having a test on significant digits as well as metric conversions. Look over the review sheet from class on Friday.
• AP European History (Mr. Bullington) - Remember to complete the homework on the Protestant Reformation in complete sentences.

Tuesday -

• Pre IB Spanish I (Sra. Martelli) - Test on body and school items vocab plus a little bit of masculine/feminine pronouns.
• AP U.S. History (Mr. Rose) - The second 31 questions in the Chapters 6-9 packet will be due as a quiz grade. Remember that all quiz grades for the quarter will be averaged as a test grade.
• AP European History (Mr. Jones) - There will be a quiz on the summer reading today.
• Pre-IB Spanish II (Sra. Martelli) - There is a test on Los Dos Reyes y Los Dos Laberintos as well as Jorge Luis Borges. Review any notes you may have taken on the test.
• IB TOK (Mrs. Brooks) - Journal Entry: "How issues of perception can affect a specific area of knowledge" due today. It is suggested that personal experience or reading be implemented.

Wednesday -

• AP World History (Mr. Rose) - We are going to do our Chapter 3 test.
• AP U.S. History (Mr. Rose) - We will be taking the multiple choice part of the test on Chapters 6-9. Be sure to study by reading the chapters and reviewing the question packet.
• IB Biology III (Ms. Bidwell) - Test today? Unconfirmed.
• IB Theatre II (Mrs. Brooks) - Two-page (double-spaced) background paper on your folktale tribe. Must include descriptions of culture, native dress (male and female), color of clothing, and one drawing of costume design based on research. Paper should include four outside sources, cited internally (with parentheticals) and in a bibliography.

Thursday -

• AP World History (Mr. Rose) - He will start checking notebooks randomly, so make sure yours is in order. The order is: In front pocket, important papers, like the syllabus, essay tips, etc. Next is a section fro the lecture notes, then a section for study questions and responses, (remember on your inquiry questions that you highlight your thesis), last is a maps and charts section.
• AP Calculus BC (Mr. Bobbitt) - The review on Logarithms will be due. We will also be having a test on Chapter 2. You can prepare, of course, by studying your notes and doing the homework. The test will be 15 multiple-choice questions and two free-response questions. No calculators will be allowed.
  
• AP U.S. History (Mr. Rose) - We will be taking the DBQ part of the test on Chapters 6-9. This will not be a full DBQ, but a "mini-DBQ".
  
• AP Chemistry (Mrs. Smith) - The precipitation lab will be due. Be sure to follow the IB Rubric.
• AP European History (Mr. Jones) - There will be at test on chapters 13-15 in The Western Experience, sections 8-15 in Palmer and Colton, and any notes.

• IB Chemistry III (Mrs. Nagel) - Environmental Chemistry Review Questions due, completed, this morning. Review will continue based on the answers to this sheet.

Friday -

• AP European History (Mr. Bullington) - There is a test on the New Monarchies and the Protestant Reformation.
• IB History of the Americas (Mr. Bullington) - Test on the early part of WWI, the race for allies, and American causes of entrance to the war; plus anecdotes, as will be noted.
• IB Chemistry III (Mrs. Nagel) - Environmental Chemistry test today. It will be similar to last week's test, including definitions, lists, formulas, and explanations of gas and pollutant chemistry.
• IB Spanish III (Sr. Alemañy) - We will be having a test on Capítulo 1. You can study by looking over your notes and the chapter in the textbook.
• IB Theatre I (Mrs. Brooks) - Be sure to bring your Commedia dell'Arte notes for an in-class test, where you will write an essay of sorts regarding how Moliere took what he learned from a Commedia troupe and applied it to his play, The Miser.
  
• AP English Literature and Composition (Mr. Murray) - We will be having a test over Vocabulary Units 1-3. You can study by looking over your old quizzes.