Date: 6/15/09
Official End Time: 3:00 a.m.
So, this summer I was blessed with a crap load of summer assignments. I have summer assignments from three classes that I will taking next year and in retrospect it isn't a lot of work, but its the summer: I don't want to work. I really can't be saying this seeing as next year I will be taking four APs, one UConn, and an elective that's basically giving me another ap exam to worry about. I guess the $75 will make it all worth it at the end of the day.
So these are my summer assignments . . .
English 12 AP Literature and Composition
2009 Summer Assignment
“Reading for Literary Value: Defining Good Literature”
1. Read each of the works listed.
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son (Book 1), by Dean Koontz
Foe, J. M. Coetzee
Grendel, John Gardner
You will need to purchase a copy of each book. (You may want to look into purchasing used copies of the books.) You will need to annotate as you read and will need to bring the marked novels, to class during the first week of school.
For each of the works, analyze/discuss the identified literary element(s) within the story and the author's ability to use said element(s) as a storytelling method: (min 2 pages per analysis)
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son (Book 1) - plot/subplot and suspense
Foe - point-of-view and narration
Grendel - characterization
3.Respond to the following essay prompt using one of the assigned books:
"Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed. Choose a novel or a play in which such a character plays a significant role and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions or moral values."
Please contact me at snicholas@waterbury.k12.ct.us if you have any about assignment.
Email assignments to snicholas@waterbury.k12.ct.us by August 17, 2008
Hello and happy summer!
In preparation for the upcoming school year, in particular you AP psychology class, I’m sending you your summer assignment. It should be INTERESTING and EXCITING - but it is an AP class so it will be fast paced and we will have to work hard from Sept. - April. Your AP test should be early May, then we can ease off for the rest of the school year. (this doesn’t mean do nothing, but more fun stuff, film, activities)
Your summer assignment is this life of important psychologist that you may be asked question about on the Exam.
1. obtain a notebook just for the names you will need in Psych. (I highly recommend a loose leaf type notebook with dividers is best - that way you can add or shift paper as needed)
2. research on the internet (or the long way through the library literature) for each of name:
a. biographical data: birth/death
b. educational background
c. achievement(s) (such as awards, discoveries, etc.)
d. psychological domain work was done in (ex. Methods, behaviorism, development, biological, etc.)
e. psychological theory/research and importance of the research
3. this can be in note form (not sentence/paragraph)
4. each name should have a separate page (to allow for extra that may be obtained throughout the course
******I do not want you to simply download from the internet or cut and paste
read and summarize in your own words
******Also, this is not a joint project - the work must be your own...see attached “cheating” insert
have this completed for the first day of school (August 27), as it will receive a test grade (begin working on this early, don’t leave it for the last minute!)
When we being the class, you will also need a notebook for terms that you’ll need to know not only their definition, but also be able to apply them and relate them to psychologist. (again, a loose leaf notebook with dividers for sections such as names, terms, notes, and assignments just for psych, would be ideal.)
It is essential that you have access to the internet since some of the quizzes and homework will be submitted online. You will need to register as my student at the website listed below. (my email is:amlavado@waterbury.k12.ct.us)
We will be using the David Meyers book: Psychology (ninth edition). There is a website that you can access (www.worthpublishers.com/myers) Here you can access information on topics related to the practice tests, review activities, and web links form more information on topics related to the history and scope of psychology, as well as more about various psychologist.
I am looking forward to working with you this school year. Enjoy your summer - but save a few days to get you work done! See you August 30th!
Sincerely, Mrs. A. Lavado
Abraham Maslow
Albert Bandura
Albert Ellis
Alfred Binet
Benjamin Whorf/ Edward Sapir
BF Skinner
Carl Jung
Carl Rogers
Carol Gilligan
Charles Spearman
Edward Chase Tolman
El Thorndike
Eleanor Gibson/ Richard Walk
Eric Kandel
Erik Erikson
Francis Cecil Sumner
G. Stanley Hall
George Sperling
Hans Eysenck
Hans Selye
Harry Harlow
Herbert Simon
Howard Gardner
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Jerome Kagan
John Garcia
John Watson
Lawrence Kohlberg
Lev Vygotsky
Lewis Terman
Margaret Floy Washburn
Martin Seligman
Mary Calkins
Max Wertheimer
Michael Gazzaniga
Nathaniel Kleitman
Neal Miller
Noam Chomsky
Philip Zimbardo
Raymond Cattell
Richard Solomon
Robert Rescorla
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Sternberg
Roger Sperry
Sigmund Freud
Solomon Asch
Stanley Miligram
Stephen Laberge
Wilhelm Wundt
William Dement
William James
AP Calculus BC
Preparation for Calculus
- Study: Section P1 Graphs and Models p.2-7
- Study: Section P2 Linear Models and Rate of Change p.10-15
Do problems #1-6, 7, 11,15, 23, 27, 47, 59, 69, 83, 91.
- Study: Section P3 Functions and their Graphs p.19-26
Do problems #1, 11, 19, 21, 33, 51, 57.
- Study: Section P4 Fitting Models to Data p.30-32
Do problems #1-4, 7, 15, 17
Review p 36-37 Do problems #1-49 (odd)
- Study Chapter 1.1 The tangent line Problem p.45-46
Do problems #1-11 p.47
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
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