Friday, April 21, 2006
Welcome back!
Our supermegaextended vacation is winding down...I know: it hurts, it HURRRTS!
Anyway, get a hold of yourself and ease back into Chem this weekend.
AP: under 20 total days left till "the show". I put up an entire course "quick" review sheet in the general files section (at the top of the files section). Check it.
Also, the Nuclear notes and supplements are up for our Day of Nuke on Monday.
I also posted some Organic supplements. To wrap up the course, Nuclear/Orgo/Transition Metals/Electro will be on our next day 4 exam.
To get right into review this week, we will complete one part I and two or three part II exams between class time and hw; get that accurately done hw in daily- that will strongly influence your quarter grade. These exams (along with all of your painstaking work on KARMA and the other three AP exams) will PRIME you for next Saturday's (04/29) REAL practice AP exam. Your grade on that exam will definitely show you where you are and what you need to do with your remaining 11 days.
Honors: Those helpful Organic-Naming mnemonics are now posted! Your orgo test this week will test your ability to name and draw the structures of organic compounds. This will be a 100 point written test so make sure that you are an organic expert by Wednesday.
You CANNOT learn organic only by reading about it. You must HEAVILY practice drawing the compounds based on their IUPAC names and vice-versa. Merely looking at correct answers will not give you any useful experience, ability or confidence. Remember, WRITING/DRAWING is studying. Reading is pre-studying.
After our (I hope) successful orgo test, we will complete our acid/base/salt unit by the weekend. Check out the Bronsted conjugate acid-base worksheets.
Now back to our regularly scheduled vacation...zzzzzz
Anyway, get a hold of yourself and ease back into Chem this weekend.
AP: under 20 total days left till "the show". I put up an entire course "quick" review sheet in the general files section (at the top of the files section). Check it.
Also, the Nuclear notes and supplements are up for our Day of Nuke on Monday.
I also posted some Organic supplements. To wrap up the course, Nuclear/Orgo/Transition Metals/Electro will be on our next day 4 exam.
To get right into review this week, we will complete one part I and two or three part II exams between class time and hw; get that accurately done hw in daily- that will strongly influence your quarter grade. These exams (along with all of your painstaking work on KARMA and the other three AP exams) will PRIME you for next Saturday's (04/29) REAL practice AP exam. Your grade on that exam will definitely show you where you are and what you need to do with your remaining 11 days.
Honors: Those helpful Organic-Naming mnemonics are now posted! Your orgo test this week will test your ability to name and draw the structures of organic compounds. This will be a 100 point written test so make sure that you are an organic expert by Wednesday.
You CANNOT learn organic only by reading about it. You must HEAVILY practice drawing the compounds based on their IUPAC names and vice-versa. Merely looking at correct answers will not give you any useful experience, ability or confidence. Remember, WRITING/DRAWING is studying. Reading is pre-studying.
After our (I hope) successful orgo test, we will complete our acid/base/salt unit by the weekend. Check out the Bronsted conjugate acid-base worksheets.
Now back to our regularly scheduled vacation...zzzzzz
# posted by C @ 4:05 AM 
