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Schedule of Topics and Assignments (2018-19)

Week of February 18 - February 22
Monday:  President's Day
Tuesday:   Faculty In-Service
  • Parametric Quiz closes Tuesday night
Day 1:   Polar and Cartesian Graphing (9.3);  Polar Coordinates, Arc Length, and Simple Area (9.4)
  • Online Parametric Quiz Closes at midnight
  • AB FRQ Handout  due
  • Download the 2015 AB Packet
  • Read Chapter 9
  • p. 594 # 1 - 19 odd, p. 605 # 1 - 15 e.o.odd
  • Online Review Quiz 2 opens
Day 2:  Areas involving two Polar Curves (9.5)
  • View the screencasts for 9.4
  • p. 614 # 1 – 21 e.o. odd
  • View the screencasts for 9.5
  • p. 621 # 1 - 17 odd
Sunday Night: Online Review Quiz 2 closes

Week of February 25 - March 1
Day 1:   Areas involving two Polar Curves (9.5)
  • 2015 AB Packet due
  • Start BC FRQ Handout #2
  • p. 633 # 1 - 6
Day 2: Derivatives and Polar Graphs
  • p. 633 # 7 - 13 odd, 14
Day 3:   Quiz on 9.1 to 9.4
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 9 opens


Week of March 4 - March 8
Day 1:  Intro Power Series;  Taylor Polynomials and Error (10.1)
  • BC FRQ Handout #2 due
  • Download the 2014 BC FRQs (skip #6)
  • p. 641 # 1 – 13 odd, 14, handout
Day 2:  Review Day
  • Summary Sheet due
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 9 closes
Day 3:  Chapter 9 Test

Week of March 11 - March 15
Day 1:  Power Series (10.2)
  • 2013 BC Packet due
  • Start BC FRQ Handout #3
  • p 660 # 1 - 13 odd
  • Online Review Quiz 3 on opens
Day 2:  Review Series Test (10.3)
  • p. 668 # 1 - 7, 10-17, 19, 21, 23
Friday:            Holiday
Sunday Night: Online Review Quiz 3 on closes


Week of March 18 - March 22
Day 1:  
Radius and Intervals of Convergence (10.4)
  • BC Packet #3 due
  • Download the 2009 BC FRQs-- Skip #6, Do BC12 #6
  • p. 676 # 1 - 11 odd
Day 2: Summary of Power Series
  • p 685 # 1 - 11 odd
Day 3:   Quiz on 10.1 to 10.3
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 10 opens


Week of March 25- March 29
Day 1: 
Day 2:  Review Day
  • Summary sheet due
  • BC 2009 Packet due
  • Ch 10 Online Prep Quiz closes at Midnight
Day 3:   Power Series Test
  • Start BC multiple choice Packet

Week of April 1 - April 5
Day 1: Final Exam Review/AP Exam prep
  • Online Review Quiz 4 on opens
Day 2:  Spring Final Multiple Choice (no Calculator)
  • Final Review Sheet due
Day 3:  Spring Final Multiple Choice  (Calculator)
Sunday:  Online Review Quiz 4 on Closes Sunday Night

Week of April 8 - April 11
Day 1:  Spring Final Free Response (Calculator)

Day 2:  Spring Final Free Response (no Calculator)


Easter Break Week of April 12 - April 22

Week of April 23 - April 26
Day 1:    Review Day
  • BC handout #4 due
Day 2:   Spring Final Free Response (Calculator)=


Week of April 29 - May 3
Day 1: Final Exam Review/AP Exam prep
  • Bring your AP Free Response Packets to class for content analysis
  • With your table group, make a list of the most likely topics to be asked. 
  • Online Review Quiz 5 on opens
  • Download BC 2017 FR
Day 2:  AP Exam prep
  • Handout
Day 3:  Memory Quiz on the "Cram Sheet"
  • Handout
Sunday:  Online Review Quiz 5 on Closes Sunday Night

Week of May 6 - May 10
Monday:         AM—US Govt; PM—Chinese & Environmental Science
Tuesday:        AM—Spanish, Spanish; PM—Japanese & Physics 1
Wednesday:   AM—ENG Lit; PM—French, European History
Thursday:      AM— Chemistry; PM—German & Psycology
Friday:            AM—US History; PM—Comp Sci Principles
Day 1:   AP Review Day
  • BC 2017 Packet Due
  • Start AP Packet Handout #5
  • Categorize topics on Handout #5 based on this List of BC Topics.
  • Read the Kaplan article on MC Strategies
Day 2:   AP Review Day
Day 3:   AP Review Day


Week of May 13 - May 17
Monday:         AM—Biology; PM— Physics C
Tuesday:        AM—Calculus; PM—Art History & Geography
Wednesday:   AM—ENG Lang; PM— Italian & Macroeconomics
Thursday:      AM—Comp Govt, World History; PM—Stats
Friday:            AM—Microeconomics & Music ; PM—Latin & Comp Sci
Day 1:     AP Packet Handout #5 Due
  • BC Cram Sheet
  • BC Topics
  • Last Minute Advice
  • Top 10 Common Mistakes
Day 2:     Complete the post-course survey at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1248749/BC-Calculus-feedback
Read these  articles:
  • Followership
  • Bad Leadership
  • Ignatian Leadership
  • Servant Leadership
  • 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
  • Discuss at your table the commonalities among the articles
  • Soft Skills
Friday:            Faculty In-Service


Week of May 20 - May 24
Day 1:   Senior Holiday     
Day 2:   No class    


Thursday:      Transition Liturgy
Friday:            Awards Assembly

Week of May 27 - May 30

Lower Division Final Exams


June 1: Graduation

PAST ASSIGNMENTS

August 24

Day 1:  Course Introduction; Derivative Rules Review (1.1, 1.2, 1.4)
  • Read the article at http://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away

Week of August 27 - August 31
Day 1:  Local Linearity and Euler's Method (1.3); Higher Order Derivatives
  • Derivative Memory Quiz 
  • Read Chapter 1
  • p.  10 # 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 – 16
  • p.  17 #1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, 18
  • p.  33 # 1, 2, 7, 9, 10,13,18,22, 26
  • Take the Myers-Briggs Test
  • Complete the Student Information Survey
  • Chapter 1 Prep Quiz opens
Day 2:  Implicit Differentiation (1.6)
  • p.  27 #1, 2, 4, 8, 11-14
  • p.  40 #2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 16, 23, 25
  • Chapter 1 Prep Quiz opens
Day 3:  Quiz on 1.1 thru 1.5; Intro to Integrals (2.1)


Week of September 3 - September 7
Monday:   Labor Day
Day 1:  The Power and Transcendental Rules (2.1); 
  • Read Chapter 2
  • p. 48 #1, 3 - 6, 9, 13
  • p. 55 # 1, 4, 5, 6,  MC Handout
  • Chapter 1 Prep Quiz closes 
Day 2:  Chapter 1 Test
  • Summary Sheet Due
Friday:            Mass of the Holy Spirit

Week of September 10 - September 14
Day 1:  Integration by Substitution--the Chain Rule (2.2)
  • Watch the screen casts for 2.1 and 2.2
  • p. 77 # 1, 4, 5, 7, 11. 13, 17
  • p. 86 # 1, 4, 5, 7, 11. 13, 17 odd (In class)
Day 2:  Separation of Variables (2.3)  
  • p. 86 #2, 3, 15, 19 - 22 
Day 3:   Quiz on 2.1 to 2.2


Week of September 17 - September 21

Day 1:   Back Substitution (2.4);  Powers of Trig Functions (2.5)
  • View the screen casts for 2.4 to 2.6
  • p. 94 # 1, 4, 5, 7, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23
Day 2:   Powers of Trig Functions (2.6)
  • p 94 (Set B) # 2 - 8 even
  • p. 100 # 1 - 8 (done in class)
  • p. 106 # 1 - 7
Day 3:  Quiz on 2.3-2.6

Week of September 24 - September 28
Day 1:  Slope Fields (2-7)
  • Slope Field handout
  • p.  110 # 1 – 7 odd
  • Prep Quiz #2 opens
Day 2:  Chapter 2 Review Day
  • p.  122 #1 - 19 odd
  • Summary Sheet Due
  • Prep Quiz #2 closes
Day 3:   Chapter 2 Test


Week of October 1 -October 5

Day 1: Extrema, the Derivative Tests, and Optimization (3,1)
The Second Derivative, Points of Inflection and Concavity (3.2); Graphing with Derivatives (3.3)
  • Read Chapter 3
  • Watch the ScreenCasts for 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
  • 154 #1 – 9 odd, 12- 18 even (In Class)
Day 2:  Graphical Analysis I
  • 154 #2 – 10 even, 11- 21 odd, 22, 25, 26, as needed
  • 162 # 3 – 13 odd, 14-16
  • 173 # 1 – 7 odd, 11-17 odd
Day 3:  Quiz on 3.1 to 3.3


Week of October 8 - October 12
Day 1:  Motion (3.5);  Related Rates (3.6)
  • p 185 # 1 – 9 odd, 10 – 14, Handout
  • Canvas Quiz #3 opens
Wednesday:   PSAT Day
Day 2:  Chapter 3 Test
  • Summary Sheet Due
  • Canvas Quiz #3 closes

Week of October 15 - October 19

Day 1:  The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (4.1); Definite Integrals and U-Substitution (4.2)
  • Read Chapter 4
  • 232 # 1 – 13 in class
Day 2: Definite Integrals in Context (4.3)
  • p 238 # 1 - 15 odd
  • View the 4-3 Screen Casts

Week of October 22 - October 26
Day 1: Graphical Analysis II (4.4),
  • p. 247 # 1 – 15 odd
Day 2:   Approximating Definite Integrals (4.5)
  • p. 257 # 1 - 5, 7, 9
  • Handout 
Day 3:   Quiz on 4.1 and 4.4

Week of October 29 - November 2
Day 1:  The Mean Value Theorem (4.6);  Accumulation of Rates (4.7)
  • p 270 # 1 – 9 odd
  • Handout on 4.5
Day 2:    Chapter 4 and AP Topics
  • Handout on 4.7
  • p. 287 # 1 – 9
  • Chapter 4 Online Test opens
Day 3: Quiz on 4.5 to 4.7


Week of November 5 - November 9
Day 1:    Area between Two Curves (5.1); Arc Length (5.2)
  • Read Chapter 5
  • Watch the Screen casts for 5.1 & 5.2
  • p. 308 # 1 – 13 odd, p 312 # 1 - 9 odd in class
Day 2:     Review Day
  • Summary Sheet Due
  • Chapter 4 Prep Quiz closes at midnight
Day 3:   Chapter 4 Test

Week of November 12 - November 16

Day 1:  Volume by Cross-Section (5.3)
  • Watch Screencast for 5.3
Day 2:  Volume by Rotation around an Axis (5.4)
  • p. 326 # 2 – 12 even
Day 3:  Volume by Rotation around a line not an Axis (5.5)
  • p. 342 # 1 – 11 odd
  • p. 355 # 1 - 9 (in class)
  • Week of November 19 – November 23
    Day 1: No School
  • Ch 5 Online Quiz Opens
  • Choose between  the Thanksgiving Volume  Project or the Take-home Volume Quiz

  • Thanksgiving 

    Week of November 26 – November 30
    Day 1:  Limits, L’Hopital’s Rule, and The Limit Definitions of a Derivative (6.1); Continuity Review (6.2); Differentiability (6.3)
  • Read Chapter 6
  • Volume Project due
  • Chapter 6 Prep Test opens
  • Day 2:  Chapter 5 Review Day
  • Dx and Integral Memory Quiz
  • Summary Sheet Due
  • Ch 5 Online Quiz Closes
  • Day 3:  Chapter 5 Test

Week of December 3 - December 7
Day 1: Limits at Infinity (6.4);  Type I Improper Integrals (6.5);  Type II Improper Integrals (6.6)
  • p. 389 # 1 - 31 e. o. odd
  • p. 404 # 1 - 21 odd
  • p. 417 # 1 - 13 odd, 14
Day 2:  Chapter 6 Review
  • p 428 # 1 - 15 odd
  • p. 434 # 1 - 11 odd, 12, 13
  • p. 438 # 1 - 7 odd, 8, 9 In Class
  • Chapter 6 Online Test closes at midnight
  • Summary Sheet Due
Day 3:  Chapter 6 Test


Week of December 10 - 14
Day 1:  Final Exam Prep (Multiple Choice) 

Day 2:  Final Exam Part I (Multiple Choice--No Calculator) 
Day 3:  Final Exam Part II (Multiple Choice with calculator); Final Exam Prep (Free Response)
  • Final Summary Sheet due

Week of December 17 - 19
Monday:   English and Social Science Final Exams
Tuesday:  Math Final Exam Part II and Science Exam  Exams
Wednesday:   Language and  Religious Studies Final

Christmas Vacation   December 20- January 6


Week of January 7 - January 11
Day 1:  Final Exam Review; Intro to Sequences (7.1);  Intro to Series (7.2)
  • Read Chapter 7
  • p. 458 # 1 - 25 odd in class
Day 2: Divergence and Convergence of Infinite Series (7.3)
  • p. 466 # 1 - 21 odd
Day 3:   Convergent/Divergent Series:  The Integral Test (7.4)
  • p. 476 set B  # 1 - 21 odd
  • View the screencasts for 7.4


Week of January 14 - January 18

Day 1: Convergent/Divergent Series:  The Comparison Tests (7.5)
  • p. 489 Set B # 1 - 10
  • View the screencasts for 7.6
Day 2:  Review of Absolute Convergence (7.6);  Intro The Ratio Test (7.7)
  • p. 494 # 1 – 8
  • Chapter 7 Prep Quiz opens
Day 3:  Quiz on 7.3 to 7.6


Week of January 21 - January 25
Monday:   Martin Luther King Holiday
Day 1:  
General Series Summary (7.8);  Review Day
  • p. 500 # 1 - 11
  • P. 505 # 1 - 10 (in class)
  • View the screencast for 7.8
  • Summary Sheet due
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 6 closes
Day 2:  Chapter 7 Test

Week of January 28 - February 1
Day 1:   Integrals of Rational Functions
  • Read Chapter 8
  • View the screencasts for 8.1 and 8.2
  • p. 523 # 1 - 9 odd (in class)
  • Online Review Quiz 1 on opens
Day 2:  Partial Fractions (8.2); Logistic Growth (8.3) 
  • p. 531 # 1 – 9 odd
  • p. 537 # 1 – 5 in class
Day 3:   Quiz on 8.1
Sunday Night: Online Review Quiz 1 on closes


Week of February 4 - February 8
Day 1:  Integration by Parts Case I and II (8.4)
  • Begin the 2016 AB Packet
  • p. 547 # 1 – 3 odd (in class)
  • Sign up for your AP Exams
Day 2:  Integration by Parts Case III (8.4)
  • p. 547 # 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 8 opens
Day 3:   Quiz on 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4


Week of February 11 - February 15
Day 1:  General Advanced Integration (8.8)
  • 2016 AB Packet due
  • AB FRQ Handout
  • p. 544 # 5, 7, 8, 9, 14
Day 2:  Chapter 8 Review
  • Summary Sheet due
  • 576 # 1 – 21 odd, 25 – 41 odd
  • Online Quiz on Chapter 8 closes
Day 3:  Chapter 8 Test
  • Read 9.1 and 9.2
  • View the Screen Casts
  • Do the online Parametric Quiz by Tuesday night

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