One Week To Go!

Next Monday students will take the AP Psychology exam! It is hard to believe the year has gone by so quickly, but this means the next week will be devoted to some pretty important preparations.

Some reminders:

• Your Motivation & Emotion test is Tuesday, April 30th. Finish strong on your LAST unit test! No study session the evening prior, as Mr. Leahy tells me there was little interest.
• You will review in class Wednesday - Friday.
• On Sunday, from 1-5 PM, I'll host your FINAL review session for AP Psych!

Since that last review is a pretty extensive one, I've created a guide for you to use in planning how you wish to spend that time. As always, you are invited to stay for as much of the session as you can, but are free to arrive and leave when you need to, for any reason.

Later this week I will be composing a post with a bunch of online review tools for students. There will be a computer lab available during the study session for students who wish to use them. Of course, by posting them early I also hope to let students use them at home over the course of the week, as needed.

Good luck this week! Hope to see you all soon!

We're in the Home Stretch!

Having just wrapped up a weekend review session focused on Developmental Psych and Learning Theory, I can really feel that exam prep is "in the air" in the AP Psych room. However, with prom dominating most people's schedule's next weekend, our next major review session outside of class will be May 5th (1-5 PM)- only ONE DAY before the exam! I'm super excited to be planning this final practice session, and I promise there will be something for everyone (including cake?).

However, you've got some things coming up on your schedules before that, including some important events this week:

• On Tuesday (4/23) during 2nd Hour, you'll complete your pre-registration paperwork for AP Testing. You'll also get all the info about testing locations, when to arrive, how to get there, etc.
• On Wednesday (4/24), you'll take your LAST quiz, on Chapter 13 (Emotion). Hooray!
• On Friday (4/26) your Emotion Theory Posters are due.
• Your TEST for Motivation & Emotion (& Stress) is Tuesday, April 30.

Students complete practice AP Psych exams on 4/14/13. What a crew!

Now, there's no need to panic. You'll be doing some in-class review on May 1-3, and we may even be able to squeeze in a review session on Motivation & Emotion prior to your test (depends on my schedule at my internship site). You'll also continue to work on your 40 Day Packets and 200 Analogies Packets on your own.

Keep up the good work as you continue your preparations for the AP Psych exam! We're now only two short weeks away!

What's Ahead in AP Psych?

Happy New Year!

I'm here at school working on getting ready for the upcoming week and for our final content unit prior to the end of the semester - no small task after a busy lead-up to Christmas break! You all were able to relax a bit and catch up on some much-needed rest over these past days. We'll hit the ground running tomorrow, so I thought I'd give you a head's up about what January's busy schedule looks like.

Students can begin reading content from Chapter 10, as we will begin exploring that information (on thinking and language) in class tomorrow. The quiz on Chapter 10 will take place MONDAY, JAN. 9th.
 Per usual, there will be a study session prior to this unit's test. That optional test prep opportunity will take place THURSDAY, JAN. 12th, as the unit test will be FRIDAY, JAN. 13th.


Following the unit test, we will immediately begin reviewing for the semester final. Students will get a chance to get a jump on their reviewing during a weekend review session scheduled for SUNDAY, JAN. 15th from NOON - 2 PM. (Note: on the course syllabus I scheduled this for 5-7 pm, but I've altered the timing since I anticipate that a fair number of my students will want to be free to watch the Packer game, which starts at 3:30 PM that day).

The following week during class will find us reviewing in various ways on Monday and Tuesday, and there is a final evening study session scheduled for TUESDAY, JAN. 17th from 5 - 7 PM.

 Students will get more information about the content and format of the final exam in the coming weeks, but I thought I'd get the dates out there to you as a reminder to schedule in your reviewing time carefully.

Let's get ready to finish the semester strong, everyone! Welcome back.Final exams will take place from Jan 18-20 at Chi-Hi. :)