Monthly Schedule

(Honors AP Calculus, Period C)

M 1/5/09	HW due: Finish Pop Quiz I, Pop Quiz II, and Pop Quiz III. (The only one that will be collected is the one you did not do on 12/19/2008, but it is recommended that you do all of them for practice.) You should also begin reviewing for your midterm exam. A practice midterm is available for your convenience.
T 1/6/09	Quest (50 points) in preparation for midterm exam. This quest may cover material from the entire year.
W 1/7/09	Work period. Attendance will be taken, though I will not be in class because of illness. You should review for your midterm exam, using one or more of the following techniques: working problems in an AP review book, working on the practice midterm, or working an assortment of problems in your textbook.
Th 1/8/09	Quest (50 points). Same comment as for Tuesday’s quest. If either quest is cancelled because of bad weather, or if you miss one of them because of an excused absence, there will be no make-up. For students who take both of them, only the better of the two will count toward your quarter average. Note: This is the quest that was originally scheduled for Wednesday.
F 1/9/09	End of second quarter. HW due: Re-do yesterday’s quest. Try to do it in 15 minutes if you can, since that would be the approximate AP pacing.
F 1/16/09	Midterm Exam (20% of first semester grade), Mathplex South, our usual classroom, at 11:00 a.m. What to bring: Several sharpened pencils, erasers, calculator, spare batteries. That is all! What to leave at home or in the hallway: Cell phone, scratch paper, graph paper, straightedge, compass, notes, PDA, etc. None of these items will be needed on the exam, not even a straightedge. If you are found with any of these items, the items may be confiscated, and depending on circumstances, you may be subject to Honor Council action. Format of the exam will be AP-style questions, a mixture of multiple-choice and free-response. You should consult the AP website or a good AP review book for example problems. Portions of the exam may be prohibited for calculators. Pacing: Multiple-choice problems are 2 minutes each (without calculator) or 3 minutes each (with calculator). Free-response problems are 15 minutes each. Free-response problems always have multiple parts (a, b, c, etc.), but in most cases the parts can be solved independently. If, for example, you cannot solve (a) or (b), be sure to attempt the other parts in order to earn the best score.
W 1/21/09	Classes resume.
Th 1/22/09	HW due: Read §8-6 and bring an appetite (or in Isaac’s case, a cake); write up the problem that was posed in class. This was the problem: Let R be the region in the xy-plane bounded by the x-axis, the line x = 2, the line x = 3, and the function y = e^x + 3. Find the volume of the solid of revolution created by revolving R about the line y = –1. Use plane slicing (medium difficulty), and then check your work with cylindrical shells (harder).
F 1/23/09	HW due: Read §8-7 and make reading notes (as always). Because of the required college night event for Form V, there is no additional required written work. If you have time and inclination, you can write §8-6 #2, 7, 11, 17. Try doing all of these using both plane slicing and the method of cylindrical shells. If you don’t have time, do not panic.
M 1/26/09	Note: We will be skipping §8-8. Read §8-9 only if you have time over the weekend, since it is a difficult section and we have plenty of problems to do already. HW due: Write §8-6 #2, 7, 11, 17 (doing both plane slicing and cylindrical shells for #2 and at least one of the others); write §8-7 #5, 15, 17, 22, and the following #34: 34. Let S be the space curve whose parametric equations for x and y are given in #27 but whose z coordinate varies linearly with t as S travels from the point (0, 0, 0) to the point (–7, 0, 5.5). In other words, the diagram on p. 409 is a “top-down” view of S that ignores the change in the z dimension as z varies from 0 to 5.5. (a) Compute the length of S. (b) How does your answer to (a) compare to the book’s answer to #27? Does this seem reasonable?
T 1/27/09	HW due: Write §8-9 #3, 8, 9, 15.
W 1/28/09	No school (ice). Please call 703-599-6624 if you have any questions about the homework that is due tomorrow. Next Tuesday’s test will still occur on the scheduled date.
Th 1/29/09	HW due: Read §9-2; write §8-5 #26, pp. 427-429 #R1, R2bcd, R5.
F 1/30/09	HW due: Read §9-3; write §9-2 #1-11 all. If you get the hang of the process early, you can utilize the technique in §9-3 to speed things up considerably!

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