Advanced Placement (AP) at Delta High School

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Advanced Placement (AP) at Delta High School

• 2013-2014

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AP Courses Offered

• Science
• Environmental Science
• Physics B
• Chemistry

• English
• Language and Composition
• Literature and Composition

• Math
• Statistics
• Calculus AB

• Social Studies
• US Government and Politics

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Schedule
Class Period Class Instructor Room
1st Hour AP Environmental Science Reiher A-39
AP Language and Comp. Groome A-29
2nd Hour AP Physics B Magtutu D-2
3rd Hour AP Statistics Davis A-37
AP Calculus AB Rover A-10
4th Hour AP Literature and Comp. Ames A-32
AP Chemistry Mock D-3
5th Hour AP US Government and Politics MacKendrick A-42
6th Hour AP Statistics Cronenberg A-9
AP Language and Comp. Groome A-29
7th Hour AP Literature and Comp Ames A-32
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AP Environmental Science

• AP Environmental Science is designed to give
  students the opportunity to study our environment
  through the integration of biological, chemical,
  physical, and geological concepts as well as the
  cultural and political aspects. Students will
  involve critical thinking skills along with the
  scientific method to gain an understanding of the
  relationships between living things and their
  environment as well as human impact on the
  environment.
• This class is open to Sophomores, Juniors, and
  Seniors

Instructor Steve Reiher sreiher_at_deltaschools.com
Rm. A-39 810-900 Prerequisites None
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Sample Units

• Aquatic Ecology
• Biodiversity
• Geology
• Human Populations
• Non-renewable Resources/Energy
• Nuclear Energy
• Meteorology and the Atmosphere

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AP Physics B

• This course is designed to develop an
  appreciation of the beauty of the physical
  universe and the laws that govern it. In order to
  reach this goal we will work daily at developing
  your intuition, creativity, and inquiry skills.
  You will be designing and implementing
  experiments that lead to greater mastery of the
  laws of the phenomenon we see in the physical
  universe. We will also be using historical
  experiments and perspectives to uncover the
  elegance of how physics has developed over the
  last 400 years.
• This class is open to Juniors and Seniors

Instructor Ben Magtutu bmagtutu_at_deltaschools.com
Rm. D-2 905-955 Prerequisites Physics Algeb
ra II
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Sample Units

• Newtonian Mechanics Kinematics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Electrostatics
• Wave Motion
• Optics

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AP Chemistry

• This course is structured around the six big
  ideas presented by College Board for AP
  Chemistry. The following is the order of the
  content presented along with the big idea in
  which it aligns
• 1. Chemical Elements
• 2. Chemical and Physical Properties
• 3. Change in Matter
• 4. Chemical Reactions
• 5. Thermodynamics
• 6. Intermolecular Attraction
• This course is open to Juniors and Seniors

Instructor Joe Mock jmock_at_deltaschools.com Rm.
D-3 1055-1145 Prerequisites Chemistry
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Sample Units and Labs
Labs Chromatography Molar Volume of a Gas
Spectrophotometry Titration How Much Acid Is in
Fruit Juice and Soft Drinks? Calorimetry The
Hand Warmer Design Challenge Where Does the Heat
Come From?

• Units Chemical Foundations Stoichiometry
  Bonding Gases Chemical Kinetics Acids and
  Bases Thermochemistry Spontaneity, Entropy, and
  Free Energy

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AP Language and Composition

• By focusing on American literature, the "AP
  English Language and Composition course engages
  students in becoming skilled readers of prose
  written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and
  in becoming skilled writers who compose for a
  variety of purposes. Both their writing and their
  reading should make students aware of the
  interactions among a writers purposes, audience
  expectations, and subjects, as well as the way
  genre conventions and the resource of language
  contribute to effectiveness in writing.

Instructor Mary Groome mgroome_at_deltaschools.com
Rm. A-29 810-900/ 150-240
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Sample Texts/Writing Assignments

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Scarlett
  Letter The Crucible The Color Purple Beloved
• Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis Memoirs
  Comparison/Contrast Research Paper

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AP Literature and Composition
Instructor Rob Ames rames_at_deltaschools.com Rm.
A-32 1055-1145/ 245-335

• Reading in an AP course is both wide and deep,
  and through the close reading of selected texts,
  students deepen their understanding of the ways
  writers use language to provide both meaning and
  pleasure for their readers. The course includes
  intensive study of representative works from
  various genres and periods with each study
  corresponding to an approach to writing about
  literary works. Writing to understand a literary
  work may involve writing response and reaction
  papers, along with annotation, free writing, and
  keeping some form of a reading journal.

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Sample Texts/Unit Themes

• Novels Frankenstein 1984 A Modest Proposal
  Death of a Salesman Brave New World The Road
  Ethan Frome Heart of Darkness
• Unit Themes College Application Essay Elements
  of Genre Responsibility and Consequence
  Ambition Perfection Pain Beauty

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AP Statistics

• Advanced Placement Statistics acquaints students
  with the major concepts and tools for collecting,
  analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.
  Students will frequently work on projects
  involving the hands-on gathering and analysis of
  real world data. Ideas and computations presented
  in this course have immediate links and
  connections with actual events. Computers and
  calculators will allow students to focus deeply
  on the concepts involved in Statistics.
• This course is open to Sophomores, Juniors, and
  Seniors

Instructors Renee Cronenberg rcronenberg_at_deltasch
ools.com Teresa Davis tdavis_at_deltaschools.com R
m. A-9/A-36 Prerequisites Algebra II
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Sample Units

• Exploring and Understanding Data
• Exploring Relationships Between Variables
• Gathering Data
• Randomness and Probability
• Inference When Variables Are Related

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AP Calculus AB

• The course teaches for major topics during the
  year limits, derivatives, indefinite integrals
  and definite integrals. In each unit, we will
  study the topics graphically, numerically,
  analytically and verbally. We will not just learn
  the how, but the why to each of these four main
  topics. Students are encouraged to learn calculus
  through a variety of formats direct teacher
  instruction, exploration, reading and writing
  about calculus topics, and cooperative group
  learning.
• This course is open to Juniors and Seniors

Instructor Marty Rover mrover_at_deltaschools.com R
m. A-10 1000-1050 Prerequisite Pre-Calculus
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Sample Units and Activities

• Units
• Velocity and other rates of change
• Derivatives of trigonometric functions
• Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• Trapezoidal rule and Simpsons rule
• Activities
• MODELING HORIZONTAL MOTION
• TRAPEZOIDAL METHOD
• CBL BALL TOSS EXPERIMENT

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AP US Government and Politics

• This course includes both the study of general
  concepts used to interpret U.S. government and
  politics and the analysis of specific examples.
  It also requires familiarity with the various
  institutions, groups, beliefs, and ideas that
  constitute U.S. government and politics. While
  there is no single approach that an AP United
  States Government and Politics course must
  follow, students should become acquainted with
  the variety of theoretical perspectives and
  explanations for various behaviors and outcomes.
  Certain topics are usually covered in all college
  courses.
• This course is open to Seniors

Instructor Tonya MacKendrick tmackendrick_at_deltasc
hools.com Rm. A-42 1255-145
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Sample Units

• Origins of the American Republic
• Origins of American Federalism
• Voter Behavior
• Path to Presidency
• Interest Groups/Political Parties/Media
• Civil Liberties/Civil Rights