Welcome.

I’ve been looking forward to your classes (3rd and 4th periods) 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.

I will lecture from powerpoints that I’ve created many days. Mostly I will be reinforcing what is in your reading, 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. Take notes on your reading or on my lectures–either will be fine. Do what you prefer, but do take notes.

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 11th 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% per cent of control over.

I will setup or be glad to join a group on Facebook if we need to–either way I do check the ‘Book quite often so you can contact me there outside of school hours.  It will mainly be for your convenience and discussion, but I will moderate and answer questions if I am needed. I will primarily post discussion questions and assignments only on this blog, because you can access it through the school’s network. It is not filtered by the man.

Can’t wait til Thursday! Ok, ok, so the long weekend is nice, but you know what I mean:)

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