Chemblog!

To the greatest, highest-achieving classes that ANY teacher in any school has ever had:

You have done it! I don't know whether it is physically possible to do better than your spectacular performance on Regents Day!

Here goes, starting with the RECORD NUMBER OF PERFECT (these are supposed to be RARE!!!) scores:

Bragging rights for eternity go to the following TEN perfect scorers!!!! (an ASTONISHING RECORD NUMBER!!!):

E Period: Julie, Kieran, Rebecca and Kim! (four superstars in one class!; two siblings of former perfect scorers!)
B Period: Evan, Eamon and a certain young man who is secretly fluent in espanol, PARKER! (each contributing to the TOP CLASS average- a minute fraction higher than E period's average!)
D Period: Katy, Rian and a certain humble scholar who desires no recognition (we'll call him/her/it O.I.) - these were the first hundreds ever from a D Period class: the curse is broken!

Now for the 99's!!! May you ALWAYS remember that the word "DENSITY" is just some made up term which means how much mass exists in a given volume. That is Density = mass/volume !!! That was the magic bullet that killed about a DOZEN more hundreds this year!!! Let us also ALWAYS remember that, one does not have to remember the density of GOLD or any other element on Earth because THEIR VALUES ARE ON THE DUMBED-DOWN REFERENCE TABLES!!!!!!! There it was, staring at you but you didn't check the table or you would have had a 100!

B: Emilio, Tim, John, Lauren, Danica and Kevin!
E: Peter and Michael!
D: Brian and Joseph!

The CLASS AVERAGES:

1st Place: B PERIOD = 97.6 %
2nd Place E PERIOD = 97.4 %
3rd Place D PERIOD = 96.6 %

AWESOME, AWESOME, OKAY! :)

There was ONLY ONE score under a 90 and just two other scores under a 92 so practically ALL of you did FANTASTIC-AMAZING-STELLAR-COLOSSAL-TREMENDOUS work. CONGRATULATIONS.
YOU GUYS RULE the World of Chem!
Have the greatest and most well-earned summer of your lives!
Mr.C.
:)

The B Period class AVERAGE was a 97.6 !!!!!! which scales to a 97.3!!!

That average is beyond the reach of any AP class in this STATE! WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!! ( I am levitating!!!)

Can you say THREE 100's and SIX 99's in B Period?!!!

INSANELY GOOD!
I AM SPEECHLESS!!!

WOW!
Here are the class averages for the Part A and B-1 Sections of the Chem Regents:

B Period DOMINATES: 49.2 out of 50 !!! Who's HOT?
E Period: 48.6 out of 50! uh-Yay-yuh!
D Period: 48.2 out of 50. Nice.

There were only TWO scores below 47 out of 50.

I am VERY proud of the class conduct, determination and performance today. Kudos to all who came to the last two-hour extra help this morning. We actually did some questions that were directly on the exam. Psychic-teacher strikes again!
Thank you so very much. I will have further details later tonight/tomorrow morning.
...here are some of those details...

The following are still in the running for the RARE, bragging-rights-for-life, perfect score:


B: Evan, Emilio, Tim, Eamon, Nicholas, Lauren, Matthew, Kevin and Kathleen
E: Julie, Peter, Kieran, Becca, and Kim
D: Brian, Richard, Katy, Joe, Rian and OI.

"The Show"
Today is the day; it's showtime! I hope that you all feel prepared and confident for the exam today. There may be a few questions that are phrased in a new or unfamiliar way or there may be an alternate lab setup in a question but, just think about the topic to which the question applies and use the formula that contains the same units as the data; you will then reason your way to the solution. Don't let any one or two questions get you down or even slow you down; save those tougher ones for last and then read the question several times and concentrate on the key terms to jog your memory. If your reference tables are properly marked up, you should have plenty of mnemonic help and examples to walk you through the exam.
We covered a lot of ground at the review sessions and I hope that those who did not/ could not attend played along at home by answering each session's question set. You will be applying your now clarified knowledge on the test today, no doubt!
So, treat your Chem Regents like a work of art: keep enhancing and improving your answers (illustrations) until you turn in your masterpiece. I look forward to broadcasting your great results which you will have strongly earned! A high Chem Regents score (yes, even today) gives you bragging rights for life.

Thanks to all who came to our final night review session, good times and Mario's for all.
I think that we accomplished a lot for the night before the exam. I WILL be in the Commons (outside the gym) tomorrow at 10AM until test-time (as they say in baseball, "the show").

Let's go all out tomorrow so you can leave the exam room knowing that you could not possibly have done any better (a 100 will more than suffice) and you should see some terrific results. Before you hand in your test, try very hard to find any and all visual or other types of errors that people/geniuses make on just about every test; assume that you made two or three of these errors and find them. REMEMBER the traditional 2.5 hour MINIMUM standard test-time for my Honors classes (try to go the distance though- what is 30 minutes out of a WHOLE SUMMER?). I will be in the hallway at the two-hour mark as the cattle stampede of students who failed (by rushing out) fill the hallways and playfully prepare for summer school. Do not hesitate to alert your proctors regarding calculator batteries, etc. : there is NOTHING WRONG with such a request and I know that your proctors will help you to take the test fairly and equitably.

A GOOD OMEN: the server is back on-line so our class website is active again. The CHEATSHEET (which you may NOT bring INTO the exam) is in the "white" area at the top of the files is/has been posted along with the NY Chem Regents Curriculum standards. Enjoy.

See you tomorrow! Get a good night's sleep.
Mr.C.

For each of the past two Regents, I posted this timely advice; as I scrutinized the Regents exams then, I could see that the advice was taken to heart and spectacular results ensued. So, let's do the same this year:
Most students are not as good test-takers as they could be. When they get through a test, they just sit and squirm or stare at the ceiling and do nothing until time is called. Here's what you can do instead:
Here are some tips on how you can thoroughly check your Regents exam if you finish before our classes' 2.5 hour minimum test time (though I encourage you to go the distance and put in an Honors 3-hour effort; yes, you will hear a stampede of failing students rushing out after two hours so that they can register early for summer school).

1. After you SLOWLY and carefully re-read a given question, carefully read your response and make sure that it contains the KEYWORDS from the question and, most importantly, that your response ANSWERS the question. You can always add clarifying details to your answer. Do not let space be a concern. You may write outside the boxes as long as you draw an arrow showing the continuation of your answer.

2. Make sure that your answer is EASILY readable/legible. PRINT BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS IF YOU HAVE TO. Carefully cross out anything that you are editing out and clearly write in what you are correcting.

3. DRAW PICTURES/DRAW DIAGRAMS/ DRAW PICTURES/DRAW DIAGRAMS!!! to enhance your explanations EVEN/ESPECIALLY if you did not initially do so!. This may be the single best tip that I can give you. A clearly drawn and LABELED picture can organize your thoughts and it also paints a thousand words.

4. Plug your numbers back into the question to make sure that they produce the correct total. Check all values that you (mis)READ off of the Reference Tables.

5. Add SPECIFIC EXAMPLES of anything that you are writing about in general.

6. Directly above your solved quantitative answer, write the GENERAL EQUATION for the specific calculation that you did and make sure that you placed the numbers AND UNITS (that you correctly labeled from the question) in the correct location in the equation and that you didn't leave out any part of the equation.

If you follow these tips thoroughly, you WILL improve your test score ; also, performing these steps will keep you engaged and productive for the entire allotted Regents time.

A lot is riding on your performance. I will see and check everyone's complete test including scrapwork. You should display/demonstrate every sound test-taking technique that you now know.

My classes last year certainly followed this advice and we lived happily ever after with three perfect scores, fourteen 98's and a 95 class average too.

Thanks to those who came in over the past four weeks to take old Chem Regents exams. Regularly prepping with those tests helped a couple of my students to achieve 100 or at least a very high score last year.
I have those tests tallied in the gradebook now and some students have managed to raise their fourth quarter average with those tests (it was a no-lose proposition given that scores below your average didn't count).
I must note, however, that last year's classes took over twice as many practice regents (some students took over a dozen tests each). This year, one student took ten and three others took about 5 and there were about 15 students who took one or two.
You had four weeks to simultaneously improve your average and prep for the Regents. That doesn't necesarily mean that you weren't prepping but, based on the evidence and comparison to last year's class, most of this class has a lot to prove/demonstrate on Wednesday. Furthermore, the review sessions were regularly attended by only five or six people (whose presence has been duly noted, thank you). Again, maybe you were prepping at home but, compared to last year's attendance (especially towards the last few sessions) this year's turnout was sparse. The class average last year was 95% (not scaled down); I am expecting similar or better results this year given my further refinement of the course and availability of extra help and extra resources this year.

I'm here to help up until seconds before they call you upstairs to take the Regents. You might want to take advantage of that in the next 40 hours. All's well that ends well. Be aware though, doing just "okay" on a test that is well below the level of this course is not going to be okay at all for your average. Make sure that you completely dominate that Regents exam. Bring your A+ game!

Thanks to those who attended review on Saturday and today.

The school server is down for the moment so I will link the remaining review session files below:

Review Session File: Periodic Table

Review Session File: REDOX

Review Session File: Organic

Review Session File: Nuclear

Monday, 06/19: 3PM to 6PM, Room 136
Tuesday, 06/20: 3PM to 7PM, Room 136
Wednesday morning, day of Chem Regents: 10AM-NOON in the Commons!
Be there,
Mahalo.

During yesterday's review session, we discovered that the pH formulas were missing from the marked-up legal cheatsheet Reference Table that you should be marking up so that you can do so by rote on your actual Regents Reference Table.

Here are the two formulas; put them by the acid-base titration formula:

1) -log[H+] = pH or -log[H3O+]= pH H3O+ is hydronium;
H+ is hydrogen ion

2) 10^-pH = [H3O+] = [H+]
(means " ten to the negative of the pH value equals the concentration or Molarity of
hydronium or hydrogen ion")

We have a total of four more review sessions left (Sat, Mon, Tues, and Wed.). After that, it's showtime.
So far, I have conducted 18 hours worth of review sessions during which we have covered about 100 part II questions. If you really know the answers to all of the Review session questions sets, you will either get a 100 on the Regents or in the high 90s because all of those questions are based on the State curriculum standards from which Regents questions are designed. If you have questions from those question sets or past Regents, come to extra help or, AT LEAST, email me. After next Wednesday, the pressure is OFF.

For now, I hope that you are all acting like true Honors students and studying in excess. Keep in mind that everything that you do now to prepare for the Regents can benefit your Regents grade, your Quarter grade AND your Final Course Grade ( AND your Physics placement ). There's a big payoff if you work extra-hard now. However, the INVERSE is also true in this case...

MANY of you who need the experience practicing for this test have not taken advantage of this review. There is very little time left. You must come to review WITH AT LEAST SOME QUESTIONS PREPARED! Having NO questions at a review session suggests that you have not studied enough/at all so that you don't even KNOW where you may need help. MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES AS YOU CAN NOW- THEY DO NOT AFFECT YOUR AVERAGE AND THEY LET YOU KNOW WHERE TO FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS so that you do not make those mistakes where they count- on the Regents.! You should be doing ALL of the questions from the files that I have uploaded this week. Do NOT go into the Regents ignorant of how to solve some problem type when you have the opportunity to clear things up EVERY DAY.

Come to extra help and pick up your last exam, correct it and review it. Here are yet two more errors that ALMOST EVERYONE made on that test:

Only SIX Honors students know that crystallization is a separation technique that physically separates different salts and/or molecules bases on differences in SOLUBILITY AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES!!! Crystallization has NOTHING TO DO WITH DENSITY OR FREEZING POINT (WHICH EVERYONE ELSE PUT AS AN ANSWER)!!!
After doing COUNTLESS pH problems, some have not learned the simple math skill of converting concentration of H3O+ to pH!! Even with the correct answer, MOST of you could not show the work consistent with the answer and some of you showed work that CONTRADICTED the correct answer. You could NOT have taken notes on all the problems that we did. You could not have practiced this problem type. You should do so immediately.

I will be in the commons throughout the morning on Friday if anyone wants extra help then. If it is raining, I will be in or near the cafeteria.
See you there...
Don't forget Chem Review: Room 136 - Fri: 3:30PM- 6:30PM ; Saturday: 3PM- 6PM

Get off the beach. Get your heads out of the sand. Get to extra help to review your final. Your average depends on it.

As I continue to labor over your last exam, the majority of which are poorly written and carelessly taken, I am appalled by the generally poor performance of most of the class (though I have yet to grade most of B Period, which has been doing well lately...I'll let them know later; plus, Gilbert almost got a perfect score).
Here are some of the problems with your tests (THESE ARE THE ACTUAL ERRORS VERBATIM; I KNOW THAT MANY OF THEM ARE HARD TO FATHOM!):
how about calling FeBr2, iron II OXIDE !!!
HOW ABOUT CALLING potassium IODIDE, KBr2 !!!!!
how about explaining a decrease in TEMPERATURE stress by ONLY TALKING ABOUT PRESSURE!!!
How about explaining relative boiling points without mentioning how iodine and fluorine have a DIFFERENT NUMBER OF ELECTRONS CAUSING DIFFERENT STRENGTHS OF INDUCED DIPOLE ATTRACTIONS!

When you balance an equation, the COEFFICIENT of each substance is AN EXACT NUMBER!!!! That number has INFINITE SIG FIGS and does not affect ANY sig fig calculation. DO NOT ROUND YOUR ANSWERS TO ONE SIG FIG BASED ON COEFFICIENTS!!!

If you mess up a diagram or illustration, START AGAIN! COMPLETELY RE-DRAW IT! A crossed-out minus sign LOOKS LIKE A PLUS SIGN AND THAT'S WHAT THE READER SEES!

MOST OF YOU do not know the difference between a CONDENSED STRUCTURAL FORMULA and a simple MOLECULAR FORMULA:
For example:
The condensed structural formula shows the functional group of the molecule as in ethanol : C2H5OH
BUT the molecular formula simply gives the ratio of ATOMS in a molecule:
Ethanol: C2H6O
UNBELIEVABLE that people, in answering some questions, NOT ONLY wrote IRRELEVANT INFORMATION but that the IRRELEVANT INFORMATION WAS FALSE!!!! Read each question. Answer the question. READ WHAT YOU JUST WROTE AND THEN READ THE QUESTION AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ANSWERED SPECIFICALLY WHAT WAS ASKED FOR!!!

PHASE of a substance at a given temperature is explained by STRENGTH (or lack thereof) of INTERMOLECULAR/INTERPARTICLE ATTRACTIONS …NOT BY THE “REACTIVITY OF THE ELEMENT”!!!

HOW DO FEWER MOLES OF GAS CREATE MORE PRESSURE THAN DO MORE MOLES OF GAS???? YOU ARE NOT READING WHAT YOU WROTE!!!
Do not EVER USE THE TITRATION FORMULA FROM THE DUMBED-DOWN REGENTS TABLE! You MUST PUT IN THE NUMBER OF H+ (from the acid molecule) on the VaMa side of the equation and the NUMBER OF OH- (from the base) on the VbMb side of the equation!!!

The number of DIRECT CONTRADICTIONS IN YOUR ANSWERS is ASTOUNDING. CLEARLY, you do NOT read what you WRITE. YOU MUST analyze EVERY word that you wrote! If you do not know how to SPELL a word, USE A SYNONYM or a PHRASE that means the SAME THING!!! WHY MISSPELL "TEMPORARILY" when you can write "BRIEFLY" or "FOR A SHORT TIME"!

INDUCED DIPOLE ATTRACTIONS INCREASE with INCREASING NUMBER OF ELECTRONS PER MOLECULE, WHICH MAKES THE MOLECULE MORE “POLARIZABLE” LEADING TO STRONGER PARTIAL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE REGIONS (TEMPORARILY) OF THE MOLECULE!!

The UNBELIEVABLE (at this point in the course, after reviewing SIX REGENTS EXAMS, after being schooled on test-taking skills ALL YEAR LONG!!!!) lack of care and effort on this IMPORTANT 150-POINT exam is beyond appalling!!
I am VERY disappointed in MOST OF THE CLASS! It will take a truly excellent Regents performance i.e. score AND clear demonstration of ALL test-taking skills (which I will scrutinize each test for) to COMPENSATE FOR the damage to your average from this test.

First of all: Good luck on English part I and Math B tomorrow!

Our Chemistry Regents Review Sessions on Thursday AND Friday:
Room 136
Time: 3:30PM to 6:30PM (maybe we can order some "zuh" during/after the review!!)
Thanks for attending! Those of you not attending MUST download the files from the review sessions and do them at home. Do NOT go into the Regents exam without fully understanding the answers to those questions; I AM HERE TO HELP YOU!
If you DO know the answers for sure, you will do EXTREMELY WELL on the Regents exam.

We will cover chemical bonding and intermolecular attractions on Thursday.

I'm going ALL OUT, pedal to the metal, as the finish line approaches: I AM having a review session on Saturday, June 17. I will do an entire Regents (either Jan or Jun 2003) with y'all. I will have the session after prime beach time:
3:00PM to 6:00PM in Room 136.

Next week, I want to go over lab safety and lab techniques. Sometimes, people forget some of the lab error questions that appear on the Regents.

One more thing:
A question that came up in review about different ALLOTROPES of an element.
ALLOTROPES are different molecules of the same element. For example, diatomic oxygen is called "oxygen" but triatomic oxygen is "ozone".
Since O2 has a molar mass of 32. grams and O3 has a molar mass of 48. grams, these gases have different densities. Therefore they have different physical properties. Also, oxygen is odorless but ozone has a pungent (electric) scent.

There is even another, rarely encountered or detected allotrope of oxygen which is SOLID at pressure above 20 BILLION Pascals!:
Oxygen:

* dioxygen, O2 - colorless gas
* ozone, O3 - pale blue gas/deep blue liquid
* tetraoxygen, O4 - red solid

Do oxygen and ozone react chemically the same? EVEN THOUGH the molecules are made of atoms of the same element, the difference in BOND strength and length and STRUCTURE within these molecules CAUSES them to have DIFFERENT CHEMICAL PROPERTIES. Maybe not that different BUT STILL they do not always participate in the same reaction types in the same ways!

IN GENERAL, ALLOTROPES of an ELEMENT have DIFFERENT physical AND chemical properties!!!

Other examples of allotropes:
DIAMOND carbon vs. GRAPHITE carbon vs. BUCKYBALL carbon vs. carbon NANOTUBES!


Phosphorus:

* Red Phosphorus - polymeric solid
* White Phosphorus - crystalline solid
* Black Phosphorus - semiconductor, analogous to graphite

Sulphur:

* Plastic (amorphous) sulphur - polymeric solid
* Rhombic sulphur - large crystals composed of S8 molecules
* Monoclinic sulphur - fine needle-like crystals
* Molecular sulphur - sulphur tends to form ring molecules such as S7 and S12

Thanks to the students who have come to review so far. Not only do you review the topics but you also correct mistakes and keep from forgetting important information in the TWO WEEKS between the last class and the Regents Exam date.

As usual, those who need to be at the review sessions the most are nowhere to be found. You may find that this was your last blown opportunity before summer school. Do not think that "I didn't have a ride" is an excuse. If you won free tickets to Shakira, magically you'd be able to find a ride; you can email me and I will ask other parents whether they can give you a ride. "All's well that ends well" has a corollary: all's bad that ends bad.

On a more positive note, the next two review sessions will be held in ROOM 136:

Tuesday, June 13 - 1PM to 4PM
Wed., June 14 - 1:30PM to 4:30PM (sorry for the change; I have an appointment later).
Thurs., June 15 - time to be posted; check this blog
Fri., June 16 - time to be posted; check this blog
Come prepared with questions and the download (from the class webpage) for each particular session.

If there is sufficient interest and sign-up, I will consider a Saturday, June 17 afternoon review session.
Reminder: Students who are taking old Regents exams for credit at the review session must let me know at least 24 hours in advance and they must stay after to correct their errors before they take another Regents exam.

Late, late tonight, I will post additional part B-2 and C-type review questions (by topic) with fully annotated answers.
the more you know... (four piano notes)

The final leg of the Triple Crown is 6PM on Saturday...check it out...
look for Sunriver, Steppenwolfer and Jazil to lead the pack!
Monday, June 12: Room 136 - 1PM to 4PM download review questions file from website
Tuesday, June 13: Room 136 - 1PM to 4PM download review questions file from website

Wed through Fri times to be announced...

I will post the rooms and times for the extra-help sessions later today (assuming that blogger stays on line).

I am currently grading our final class test. After our class took and reviewed SEVEN Regents exams, some of you have committed some SHOCKING errors. There is one main cause of these terrible errors: LAZINESS. If you do not write out your general formulas, if you do not include units in your calculations, if you do not answer "WHY" after each line of your explanation, if you do not know the relationship between hydronium ion and pH (after we did 5 examples EXPLICITLY in class!!!!), then you are going to make these same errors on the Regents. If you abase yourselves to the Regents answer key standards, you will guarantee yourself a low score on the Regents and IN THIS COURSE. It is expected and anticipated that, through hard work, that your Regents score should be one of your highest test grades of the year. I can see that, for some of you, the Regents has made you LOWER your test-taking standards; that had better change. You must perform at the Honors level on the Regents exam: circle key terms and data; re-read each question BEFORE you answer the question, show ALL work including PICTURES, GENERAL FORMULAS, NUMBERS WITH UNITS, SHOW CANCELLATIONS, COMPLETE SENTENCES, CLEARLY LABELLED AND ANNOTATED DIAGRAMS. Demonstrating these skills has been one of the main causes of my past classes' extremely high Regents averages. Remember, I will be scrutinizing every Regents exam (usually this results in finding an extra LEGITIMATE point or two for those who took the exam properly); I will note HOW you took the exam and that will influence your grade in this class!
If you EVER wonder whether you should include something in your answer, then the answer is YES!

By now, you MUST know how to take a test and you MUST apply those skills. There are some who have done very well on this last test by following my test-taking advice consistently. Some of you need to do more work and more careful work on the Regents. You must come to extra help to correct your errors. There are several students who should be at almost EVERY review session. I seriously expect their attendance next week.

Congrats to all on taking your penultimate test today- all present and accounted for. Of course, you will take your ultimate exam, the Regents, on June 21st: a day of triumph and glory! (regains composure)
Tomorrow, our last regular class day, should be cool, even cold. I hope that those liquid N2 suppliers don't dawdle with our precious goods tomorrow.
If they don't show by class time, we will still have fun with silver mirror bottles (bring in some cool glass container that you want silvered). Then, before school ends, come by for some of the coldest substance on Earth, N2 (l).

You do have a Regents to work on; the June 2004 exam (there were four 100s that year all from my E period class!). Don't go crazy getting that done unless you have the time. Definitely DO come to class with a few questions that may be difficult for you; we will spend the first 10 minutes of class tomorrow on that review.

I will have our Thursday review session in the afternoon; the room and time will be posted tomorrow. I will have a review question file for each review session; you can do the questions before or during the session (you'll get more out of the review if you do the questions beforehand). The next session after that will be on Monday (also to be posted here and on the class website).

See you cool cats tomorrow.
Mr.C.

Could that be a palindrome? Yikes!

Here's the latest: just posted two great course review files: one, a 12-page pdf that covers just about everything in the course, the other, a PowerPoint that takes you through the Regents Chem curriculum.
That PowerPoint was made by this man:

He conducts the "Regents Review Live!" program for chem. You may want to check that out:
http://www.regentsreviewlive.net/rrl/courses/chemistry.html

Well, we're almost done with our regularly scheduled classes. I hope that you have gained a good foundation in Chemistry. If you pursue science either as a career or just as a topic of interest, your Chem knowledge will help you unravel and understand many of the phemomena that make life interesting and worthwhile.
Speaking of worthwhile pursuits: set your sites on achieving the RARE 100 on the Chemistry Regents. If you continue to DILIGENTLY prepare, analyze, correct and review through June 21st, that is an achievable goal for most of you Honors students; a score in the 90's is within the grasp of ALL of you. I will be here to help you every step of the way to that goal.

Kudos and plaudits to B PERIOD! Tired of taking the cheap bronze medal for the past two quarters, B put on its game face for the final unit test of the year and went straight for the Pt (better than Au)! B cranked out a powerful 97 class average, a full 4 points over the traditional D powerhouse. E can boast about a few 100s on this test and a 92 average! I hope that this foreshadows B's performance on the upcoming Regents exam although I'm sure that D and E will make things very close and interesting. Perhaps a three-way tie??? 97,97, HOT 97!

Here's what is coming up:
we will finish our sixth practice Regents (June 2005) on Friday and maybe start our 7th, which is for hw this weekend. The Jan 2004 and June 2005 exams are due by the end of school or after extra help on Friday. For credit, each question in ALL parts of the test must have correct HONORS LEVEL work shown. Those FEW of you who have just been copying the answer key lose TWICE: once with a poor grade and twice you are losing a valuable opportunity to gain knowledge and insight into the Regents exam.

Monday, we will start our last practice Regents (In addition to individual topics per review session, I'll have two more Regents for the review sessions between the 8th and the 21st). On Tuesday, we will have a written Part B-2 and Part C Regents exam worth 150 points.
On Wednesday, cool stuff: fun with liquid Nitrogen and silver mirror bottles -ooooh!
Make sure that you bring in a clean glass bottle for that lab on Wednesday, our final regular class (sniffle....tear...sob...bawl...regains composure).

I will post the Regents Review session schedule by next Tuesday when I get an assigned room (although if things are too hot, we'll have review outside with ice pops). For each hour of each review session attended, students can earn credit (5 points per hour) towards their fourth quarter total points earned by ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING (taking notes and asking prepared questions) in the review session. I will keep track of your hours.

Students may continue to take Regents for credit towards their average until June 19th. I must be notified 24 hours in advance, though, for anyone who plans to take a Regents exam during a review session.