I’ve been looking forward to your classes for some time now. A lot of people ask me if AP Psychology is hard. I usually answer that “it is not hard it’s just a lot and fast.” Because the state adjusted our school calendar and will not let us begin school until August 25th we lost a few weeks of class time. The AP Exam is still in mid May so we have to work quickly through the material.
Mostly we will be reinforcing what is in your reading through discussion and practice, therefore it is of the utmost importance that you stay current on reading your textbook. It is not exciting or entertaining, but your text book does a good job of explaining the ideas that you will need to understand in order to do well on the AP Exam and earn college credit.
Read.
We will be creating vocabulary lists throughout the year as well. In the past I have had students create 400+ notecards for review. It is effective, but someone suggested making those throughout the year and that makes sense to me. So, you might want to go pick up several packs of notecards. I don’t think I can get away with looting that many notecards out of the teacher work room:)
We will have days where all we do are activities–with play dough, waterguns, toothpicks, magic markers, coca cola, pixie sticks… Sometimes we will spend time doing surveys and calculating the results using a Likert Scale.
Sometimes the material will not be interesting to you at all. Sometimes class may seem like it is never going to end. But stick with me during those days and we’ll race our way to May 6th and knock out the exam. After that we can take a huge deep breath and finish out the remaining month of school with entertaining and interesting projects that you will have 99% control over.
I can’t wait til Wednesday. The long weekend will be nice, but I’m looking forward to AP Psych 2013
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