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Dr. James Louey, Watertown High School (CT) The College Board is pleased to announce (effective 6/9/07) that our AP Chemistry course has successfully passed the audit and has been authorized to be listed in the public ledger of AP Chemistry courses! This means that the course has been reviewed by college faculty and provides the necessary academic rigor, college level experience, and curricular requirements set by the College Board. We have been renewed for 2008-09. 
There are only 171 days until the 2009 AP Chemistry Test on Tues. May 12, 2009. AP CHEM 2008-09  (11/20/08) 
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AP CHEM (#430) Prerequisites: Since AP chemistry is an accelerated college level course, students must enter the course with the requisite skills and discipline. Failure to meet the requirements will result in placement in college prep chemistry. Math: Completed Algebra II with an 85 average or higher and be concurrently enrolled in pre-calculus. Biology: Completed honors level biology with an 85 average or higher and receive a positive recommendation from their biology teacher.
Summer Assignment: Over the summer preceding their junior year, students must read and study chapters 1-3, and part of 8 of their text. This will include mastering the names and symbols of all 110 elements and the names, chemical formulas, and charges of all assigned ions. It also includes an introduction to stoichiometry and to Lewis structures. During the first week school they will take a test (based on the summer assignment-see notebook). They must pass this exam with a 70 to demonstrate the commitment and proficiency needed to proceed with AP chemistry. (updated 6/19/06)
Description: The AP chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year. This course will be particularly helpful to those students considering a career in science, engineering, or medicine and who meet the prerequisites. Students are expected to attain a depth of understanding of the fundamentals and a reasonable competence in dealing with chemical problems. Emphasis is placed on the chemical calculations and the mathematical formulation of principles in parallel with a broad and intensive laboratory experience. It is assumed that the student will be spend at least five hours per week in unsupervised individual study (homework). Classes will meet every day during the first three quarters and will resume to every other day in Quarter 4. The course carries the weight of 1.75 credits. With the successful completion of this course, the student will be prepared to take the AP test in Chemistry (in May) and potentially earn college credit. Textbook: Chemistry the Central Science, 9th Ed , Brown, LeMay, Bursten, Burdge, Prentice Hall (Pearson Education, 2003). Class Expectations 2008-09 AP Chemistry Syllabus 07 Safety Contract 2007 Student Information Survey 07 Revised Chemistry Lab Rubric 0408 Be sure to use the resources provided below to write your lab report! Thanks Mr. Casini for the two links below. Required Lab Report Format Required Elements of a Graph Chapter Summary Rubric 07 Notebook Rubric 07 MSDS Assignment (handout) MSDS Hand in sheet .
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (assignment) To be Memorized for the year (modified from Chem Team page) Appendix Ion Table P1 Appendix Ion Table P2
2008 College Board AP Chemistry Test Information.
The 2008 AP Chemistry Exam will have the same format as that of the exam given in May 2007. The weighting of the two major parts of the exam, Sections I and II, each contribute 50 percent toward the final grade. Section I (90 minutes) consists of 75 multiple-choice questions with broad coverage of chemistry topics.
It is important to note the following points about the format of Section II of the exam, which were introduced in May 2007. All students do the same six questions: three problems, the first of which is an equilibrium problem; question 4 (reactions); and two free-response essay questions. Regarding question 4, which assesses students' knowledge of chemical reactions, all students write balanced chemical equations for three different sets of reactants and answer a short question about each of the three reactions. In Part A students have 55 minutes to answer three problems, and a calculator is permitted; in Part B no calculators are permitted, and students have 40 minutes to answer question 4 and questions 5 and 6, the two essay questions. The laboratory-based question can appear as either a quantitative problem in Part A or as an essay question in Part B.
7 Important Need to Know Items for the AP Test (from the AP email listserver). 1. Know what each of the equations on the equation sheet is for and what the variables stand for. 2. Equilibria (solving) 3. Stoichiometry - make sure they can convert between quantities in a reaction 4. VSEPR shapes/Lewis Structures 5. Kinetic Theory of Gases (if you know this, you can reason out just about every qualitative gas question) 6. Rate Laws 7. The relationship between G, K, and E (and how to calculate each of them)
And, in the "I must have these memorized" category.... Ionic charges (including polyatomic ions). Formulae for common acids, and knowing which ones are strong. "Rules" for drawing Lewis structures. Molecular shapes - relationships between electron pairs, shapes, hybridization, molecular polarity, etc. Le Chatelier's Principle - "what does what" to equilibria. Intermolecular Forces - "what is present in what" and "what is responsible for what"? (How's that for English!) General Solubility Rules.
AP CHEM 2007-2008: THE END OF A VERY LONG JOURNEY! Thank you for your commitment in both good times and bad. |