We had our first test in AP Biology today after 15 chapters and labs. It was tough ... with difficult Campbell questions (70 MC) and 1 Free Response from the 2009 exam. If you want to see the rubric from that year as well as, the free response questions the link is below ...
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_biology_sgs.pdf
I ran the scantron sheets and the class high (both sections) was 56 with a few 40s and many in the 30s. I always feel that if you can get half the questions correct, you are in the three range. The free responses seem good and the graphing of data was great!
On Monday, we are to hand in our Cardiovascular Lab and start back on discussion questions Chapters 11-14 ... mostly mitosis and meiosis. Should go quickly into genetics ... our flies and biotech labs (restriction enzyme analysis and bacterial transformation lab) have been ordered so we will probably start those week after next.
In Selected Topics, we finished our Earth Science Unit with a test. On to astronomy on Monday ... star life cycle, the universe and some planetary study. Should be fun! Our lab for this section is the modeling to scale of our solar system with the sun being a tennis ball. We will do some data collection from internet sources.
No softball practice today but, we have a Blue vs. Red scrimmage tomorrow starting at 1:30 ... players there by 1:00. Will get some picts.
We got our schedule for the Beech playday on May 12th ... Goodpasture, Hendersonville and Father Ryan ... all good teams for an AM rolling scrimmage. Also, we have our pool play games for the Owensboro Catholic tournament ... Madisonville North Hopkins, Fern Creek (Louisville - good pitcher!) and South Spencer (IN) ... looks good, maybe OC will have good weather this year!
A couple of our former players have started up their seasons in college. Emma at Campbellsville is playing well but the team has had a slow start. Caley at Bellarmine is starting in left field. Bellarmine played Georgetown this week and I have the link below:
http://athletics.bellarmine.edu/news/2011/2/22/SB_0222113052.aspx
I had a former student from last year now in the NAVY stop by school late today ... Chris. He is doing well and will be stationed in Hawaii ... his ship is out of port and he will join it in two weeks in Bahrain. He seems very happy to be serving in the Navy.
Daffodils are out and I will take a walk tomorrow to survey the Spring plant growth ...
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