Welcome to AP Chemistry!
As some of you know, the website look has changed. It looks as if I’m going to have to rebuild quite a lot, so stay tuned for future developments.
For the summer, my priority will be AP Chemistry. If you see something here (and come back often to check), and you don’t understand, please call me or email me. Do not struggle with what seems like even an EASY question, because that will cause frustration, and you don’t need to be frustrated over the summer.
You do need to REVIEW over the summer, and the more you do, the better off you will be once school starts. We will hit the ground running on Day 1, with a GRADED QUIZ the first day, and a TEST over the summer assignment on Day 2. Yeah, I know!!
I will be offering bonus points on the summer assignment for checking this website and making a comment. The system will tell me who was first. The first person to comment will get 5 bonus points on the summer assignment (which is 5% of your 1st quarter grade). It will go down by 0.25 points for each person after that, so the second person will get 4.75 points, the third 4.50, etc. Everyone will get something, just for showing up and commenting, but the early bird definitely gets the worm with the most points.
Check back often.
Oh yeah, in about 1.5 hours work, I have personally done the following:
1. Completed the lab problems worksheet.
2. Done all of the problems for Chap 1 in the new book.
3. Done up through 83 for Chap 2 in the new book.
So, it might look like a mountain of work, but it’s doable. The point is to make you familiar with problems that are more challenging than you saw in Advanced Chemistry. When you turn in your packet, I will give you an “answer packet” for you to study!
PS, I have already read Chapters 1-5 in the new book. By the time September rolls around, I will have read the entire book, at least once, and maybe twice.