Friday, March 26, 2010

For a Few Dollars More

I have two concept maps WITHOUT NAMES!!!  Check the portal!!!
The topics are:
     Oil: USA - Iraq
     Pearl Harbor (Poster)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Broken Spring

Your final grades will be done sometime next week (look for something on Tuesday).  Please use your week to seriously relax and be prepared for the final 3-week push before the AP Exams start.  If you are taking the exam, use your time to study.  Yeah, it sucks, but this is college credit!  Those of you NOT taking the AP exam will still have to be ready for a COURSE FINAL as a mid-term to Q4.  So, enjoy your break...and come back alive.  Please check the GRADEBOOK for /MI (Missing) assignments.  Email me if there is a problem.  I will crossh-check with attendance for the Mr. Smith Forum, and I have yet to add any extra credit.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Getter Dunn

PANIC!!!  Get everything done ASAP - I am taking down the Moodle Site Weds AM.  So, if there are any files you want, grab 'em while you can.  I am shutting down the forums tomorrow at 10 PM.  So, if you have to do any of the recent ones or even some of the EC, that too will be closed tomorrow at 10.  I will then input your Moodle grades into the Portal, which SHOULD help balance off your (in some cases, very low) test scores.

We will spend tomorrow and Weds going over your Iron Triangles and Concept Maps with a little thing on Thursday.

FYI - today's exercise in futility was to get you thinking FAST.  It was the ultimate in multitasking, wasn't it?  When you take the AP Exam, you will be handwriting everything.  But if/when you go to college and eventually enter the professional world, you'll have to be able to seamlessly move from window to window on your desktop.  I hope some of you are seeing the method to my madness from today and the concept map.  The APExamEssays will simply be scored as assignments, NOT exams.

See ya tomorrow...

UPDATE:  There is some very pertinent data crunching going on here.  Any AP Govt students should find it interesting...and possibly relevant to the exam essays.