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Schedule of Topics and Assignments (2022-23)
 
Week of January 9 - January 13


Monday/Tuesday:  Graphical Analysis I (4.7)
  • p. 373 #1, 2, 3, 5
  • p. 365 # 1, 3, 5 - 8, 11, 13
Wed/Thurs:  Graphical Analysis II (4.8)
  • p. 382 # 1, 3, 5, 6; p.391 # 1, 4, 5
Thurs/Friday:  Mean Value Theorem (4.2) 


Week of January 16 - January 20


Monday:   Martin Luther King Holiday
Tues/Wed: Graphical Analysis Worksheet
  • Chapter 4 Prep quiz opens
Thurs/Friday:  Quiz on 4.6 to 4.8
  • Chapter 4 Prep quiz opens


Week of January 23 - January 27
Monday/Tuesday: Recap of 4.1 to 4.4
Wed/Thurs:   Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
  • Chapter 4 Prep quiz closes
Friday: Chapter 4 Test
  • Watch screencasts Chapter 5 intro and Rectilinear Motion (5.1)


Week of January 30- February 3


Monday/Tuesday:   Rectilinear Motion (5.1)
  • One Algebraic, one numerical and one graphical for each person in the group from p. 431 # 9 – 14, 20 – 22, and 24 – 27
Wed/Thurs:  Implicit Differentiation (5.2)
  • p. 541 # 1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 15, and AB2004 #4
Thurs/Friday:  Quiz on 5.1
  • Watch screencast Related Rates


Week of February 6 - February 10
Monday/Tuesday:  Related Rates (5.3)
  • p. 469 # 1, 3, 5, 12, 17, 20; p. 478 # 1, 2, 3, 4,
  • Canvas Review Quiz 1 opens
Wed/Thurs:  Bounded Growth (5.4)
  • p. 491 # 5, 7, 8, 10.
Thurs/Friday:   Quiz on 5.2 to 5.4
  • Chapter 5 Prep Quiz opens
  • Watch screencasts Chapter 6 intro, Area (6.1), and Arc Length (6.2)
Sunday Night: Canvas Review Quiz 1 closes

Week of February 13 - February 17
Monday/Tuesday:  Area Between Two Curves (6.1), and Arc Length (6.2)
  • p. 526 # 1, 3, 5, 8,11
  • p. 528 # 1 - 7
Wed/Thurs: Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
  • Ch 5 Prep quiz closes Thursday night
Thurs/Friday:  Chapter 5 Test


Week of February 20 - February 24
Monday:  President's Day
Tuesday/Wed:  General Intro to Volume, Volume by Rotation around an Axis (6.3)
  • p. 549 # 1, 2, 5, 8, 9
Thurs/Fri: Volume by Rotation around an Axis (rotated sideways)
  • p. 549 # 12, 13, 15, 17
  • Canvas Review Quiz 2 opens
  • Download AP Packet #1 (due next week)
Sunday Night: Canvas Review Quiz 2 closes


Week of February 24 - March 3
Monday/Tuesday:    Volume by Rotation around a Line not an Axis (6.4)
  • p. 562 # 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11
  • Watch screencast Volume by Cross-Section Method (6.5)
Wed/Thurs:  Volume by Cross-Section Method (6.5)
  • p. 249 # 1 - 4, Handout
  • p. 576 # 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13
Thurs/Friday:   Quiz on 6.1 to 6.5
  • Chapter 6 Prep Quizzes opens
  • Watch screencasts Limits (3.1); Limit Definition of a Derivative (3.2)


Week of March 6 - March 10
Monday/Tuesday: AP Style FRQs (6.6)
  • p. 589 #1, 3, 6, 13, 15, 18  
  • AP FRQ Packet #1 due
  • Start AP FRQ Packet #2
  • Review Quiz #3 Opens
Wed/Thurs:  Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
  • Chapter 6 Prep Quiz closes
Thurs/Friday:  Chapter 6 Test
Sunday Night: Canvas Review Quiz 3 closes


Week of March 13 - March 17


Monday/Tuesday:    Limits (3.1); Limit Definition of a Derivative (3.2)
  • Start AP Packet FRQ Packet #3
  • p. 636 # MCQs # 1 – 11 odd; p. 642 MCQs # 1 – 9 odd
Tues/Wed:  One-sided and Infinite Limits
  • p. 652 # 1, 3, 5, 10
  • p. 654 # 1 – 7 odd (MCQs)
  • Watch screencasts Continuity (7.4) and Differentiability (7.5)
Thurs/Friday:            Holidays
Week of March 20- March 24


Monday/Tuesday:    Continuity (7.4) and Differentiability (7.5)
  • AP Packet FRQ Packet #3 due
  • p. 661 # 1 – 11 odd
  • p. 672 # 1, 3, 9, 11; p.674 # 1 – 13 odd, MCQs
  • Canvas Review Quiz 4 opens
Wed/Thurs:    End Behavior and Limits at Infinity (7.6)
  • p. 689 # 1 – 9 all (MCQs)
Thurs/Friday:  Quiz on 7.1 to 7.5
  • Watch screencasts The AP Exam (8.0), Accumulation of Rates Review (8.1); Watch screencast Tabular Reasoning Review (8.2)
Sunday: Canvas Review Quiz 4 closes

Week of March 27 - March 31


Monday/Tuesday: Accumulation of Rates Review (8.1), Tabular Reasoning Review (8.2)
  • Start AP FRQ Packet #4
  • Do the King Philip Problem and
Wed/Thurs:    Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
Thurs/Friday:  Chapter 7 Test
  • Watch screencast Graphical Analysis Review (8.3)


Week of April 3 - April 9


Monday/Tuesday:  Graphical Analysis Review (8.3)
  • Watch screencast Rectilinear Motion (8.4) and Differential Equations
Tues/Wed:  Rectilinear Motion Review (8.4); Differential Equations Review (8.5)

 
Easter Break Week of April 7 - April 16
 
Week of April 17 - April 21

Tuesday:    Final Exam MCQ prep
Wed/Thurs:   MCQ Final IA (MCQ, NO Calculator)
Friday: MCQ Final IB (MCQ, YES Calculator)
  • Watch screencasts Area & Volume Review (8.6) and Miscellaneous Topics (8.8)
 
Week of April 24 – April 28

Tuesday:    Final Exam FRQ prep
Wed/Thurs:    Final IIA (FRQ, YES Calculator)
Friday:  Final IIB (FRQ, NO Calculator)

Week of May 1 - May 5

Tuesday:   AP Review Day
Wed/Thurs:  AP Review Day
Friday:  AP Review Day
 
Week of May 8 - May 12

Tuesday:   Last minute AP prep
Read these  articles:   Followership  (Links to an external site.)   and   Soft Skills (Links to an external site.)
Submit summary sheets for BOTH articles
View the Final Exam #2 Solutions screencast
Tuesday:        AP Calculus Exam at 11:00 (sign in at 10:30)
Wed/Thurs:  Post-Exam follow-up
Complete the post-course survey at https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5563581/AP-Calculus-feedback (Links to an external site.)
Wed/Th:   Read these articles:
Followership 
Bad Leadership 
Submit summary sheets for two of the four
Friday: 
 
Week of May 15 - May 19

Tuesday:    Senior Sneak    
Wed/Thurs:  
Friday:        Senior Awards Assembly  

Week of May 22 - May 26

FINAL EXAMS
 
May 27:   GRADUATION


PAST ASSIGNMENTS

August 19
Tuesday:  Screencasts to watch before class
  • How to Watch A Screen Cast
  • Course Overview
  • Homework due before next class
    • Read the article Retrieval Practice
    • Take the Myers-Briggs Test
    • Complete the Student Information Survey
    • Create your AP Central account.


Week of August 22 - August 26
Tuesday: Screencasts:  Power and Exponential Rules (1.1);  The Chain Rule (1.2)
  • In Class:  p. 9 # 1, 3 - 8, 11 - 14; p. 19 # 1- 5, 7, 9, 14 - 21
Wed/Thurs: Screencast:  Trig, Trig Inverse and Log Rules (1.3)
  • In Class: p. 29 # 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 14, 15, 18
  • Read the article at http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/dec18/vol60/num12/The-Five-Ds-of-Destressing.aspx (Links to an external site.)
Friday:  Derivative Memory and Factoring Quiz
  • Watch screencasts for 1.4


Week of August 29 - September 2
Tuesday:  Local Linearity and Rectilinear Motion (1.4)
  • p. 40 # 1, 4, 5, 8, 17, 21, 25, 27
Wed/Thurs:  Product and Quotient Rules (1.5)
  • p. 49 # 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 21, 35.
  • P. 58 # 1, 3, 7, 10, 17, 20
Friday:   Quiz on 1.1 to 1.3


Week of September 5 – September 9
Monday:   Labor Day
Tues/Wed:  Product and Quotient Rules again
  • p. 59 # 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 22 - 25;   MCQ p. 60 # 1, 2, 3
Thurs:   Group Quiz on 1.5, 1.6, and 1.8
  • Chapter 1 Prep Quiz opens
Friday:            Mass of the Holy Spirit


Week of September 12 - September 16
Tuesday:  Higher Order Derivatives (1.7)
Wed/Thurs:  Review Day
  • Summary sheet for Make It Stick (counts in the Summary Sheets grade)
  • Summary Sheet due
Chapter 1 Prep Quiz closes
Friday:  Chapter 1 Test, including Derivative Memory Quiz 2Watch Screencasts Chapter 2 Intro; Anti-derivatives (2.1)


Week of September 19 - September 23
Tuesday:   Chapter 2 Intro; Anti-derivatives (2.1)
  • p. 91 # 1 – 15, 19, 21 odd
  • Watch Screencasts Initial Conditions and Rectilinear Motion 2.2
Wed/Thurs:  Initial Conditions and Rectilinear motion    
  • p. 101 # 1 - 19 odd
Friday:  Worksheet on 2.1 and 2.2:   Worksheet KEY
  •  Watch Screencast U-Substitution (2.3)
 
 Week of September 26 - September 30

Tuesday:  U-Substitution (2.3)
  • p. 111 # # 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
Wed/Thurs:  The Transcendental Rules (2.4)
  • p. 121 # 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20
Friday:  Quiz on 2.1 to 2.4, including the AntiDerivative Memory Quiz

Week of October 3 -October 7

Tuesday:  Separable Differential Equations (2.5)
  • p. 134 # 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19
  • Watch Screencasts Creating and Reading Slope Fields (2.6)
Wed/Thurs:  Slope Fields (2.6)
  • Handout in class,  p. 157 # 1 - 10 MCQ (together);  p. 141 # 1 - 10 MCQ (together)
Friday:  Quiz, including the AntiDerivative Memory Quiz 2
  •  Chapter 2 Prep Quizzes opens
 
Week of October 10 - October 14

Tuesday:  Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
Wednesday:   PSAT Day
Thursday:    Prep Quiz closes
Friday:  Chapter 2 Test
  • Watch Screencasts Chapter 3 Intro; The Fundamental Theorem (3.1)

Week of October 17 - October 21

Tuesday:  Intro to Definite Integrals and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (3.1) 
  • p. 190 # 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 13, 18, 21
  • Watch Screencast Definite Integrals and Substitution (3.2)
Wed/Thurs:   U-Subs
  • p. 199 # 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 18
Thurs/Fri Quarter Break


Week of October 24 - October 28


Tuesday: U-Subs Again
  • p. 199 # 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28
Wed/Thurs:  Integrals in Context (3.3)
  • p. 208 # 2, 3, 5, 9, 14, 15, 17, 19
Friday:  Quiz on 3.1 and 3.2
  • Watch Screencast Accumulation of Rates (3.4)

Week of October 31 - November 4
 
Tuesday:  Accumulation of Rates (3.4)
  • p. 210 # 1 – 7 (MCQs)
  • p. 225 (MCQs) # 1, 3, 5, 6; p. 221 # 1, 2, 4, 6
Wed/Thurs:    Accumulation of Rates (again)
  • p. 221 # 5, 7, 9, 12
Friday:   Quiz on 3.3 & 3.4
 
Week of November 7 - November 11

Tuesday: Approximations of Definite Integrals (3.5)
  • p. 241 # 1, 3, 5, 8, 9; p. 246 # 1, 2 5, 7, 9, 10
  • Watch Screencast Table Problems (3.6)
Wed/Thurs:   Table Problems (3.6)
  • p. 258 # 1, 3, 5, 9, 10
Friday:  Quiz on 3.5 & 3.6
  • Chapter 3 Prep Quizzes opens
  • Watch Screencasts Chapter 4 Intro; Extrema and the Derivative Tests (4.1)


Week of November 14 - November 18

Tuesday:  Intro to Derivative Applications I
  • p. 290 # 1, 4 , 7, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25
Wed/Thurs:  Review Day
  • Chapter 3 Prep Quizzes closes
  • Summary Sheet due
Friday:  Chapter 3 Test
  • Watch Screencast Accumulation of Rates Revisited (4.4)
 
Week of November 21 – November 23

Mon/Tues:  Accumulation of Rates Revisited (4.4)
  • p. 327 # 1, 3, 4, 7

 
Thanksgiving 
 
Week of November 28 – December 2
 
Tuesday:  Accumulation of Rates Revisited (again); Mean Value Theorem (4.3)
  • p. 338 # 3, 5, 11, 13; p.339 # 2, 3, 8 (MCQs)
Wed/Thurs:  The Second Derivative, POIs, and Concavity (4.5)
  • p. 338 # 1 - 13 MCQ
  • p. 288 # 1 - 7
Friday: Quiz on 1.1 to 4.5
  • Final Exam Prep Quiz opens
  • Watch Screencast Graphing with Derivatives (4.6)
 
Week of December 5 - December 11

Tuesday: Graphing with Derivatives (4.6) 
  • p. 349 # 1, 3, 5, 11, 12 
Wed/Thurs:  Final Exam Review
  • Final Exam Prep Quiz closes
Friday: Final Exam MCQ
 
Week of December 12 - 16

Final Exams
Tuesday:  
Wednesday:   English and Social Science Final Exams
Thursday:   Language and Religious Studies Final Exams 
Friday:   Math and Science Final Exams
 
Christmas Vacation   December 16 - January 1
 


Week of January 2 - January 6

Friday:  Final Exam Review
  • Watch Screencast Graphical Analysis I (4.7)
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