Advanced Placement - Berwick Area School District
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Comparable to college level courses
The AP Exam is mandatory and paid for by
Berwick Area School District.
› Earn college credit or placement. More info at
www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy
› Scored on a 5 point scale
5=extremely well qualified (traditional A)
4=well qualified
(traditional A-, B+, B)
3=qualified
(traditional B-, C+, C)
2=possibly qualified
1=no recommendation
Score reports are sent to colleges upon
request
AP looks EXCELLENT on your transcript
Weighted at 1.08 (highest grade weight
possible at BHS)
If you do not take the exam, your
APcourse will not be weighted
For general information about AP
courses and Exams visit
www.collegeboard.com/apstudents
Prerequisites: Biology I, Chemistry I
Content:
› Covers all 55 chapters in a college textbook
in fulfillment of the advanced placement
curriculum for biology.
› Following the exam, students will dissect the
fetal pig to finish out the year.
Prerequisites: Advanced Math
Content: This course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus
with concepts, results, and problems
being expressed graphically,
numerically, analytically, and verbally.
Themes of derivatives, integrals, limits,
approximation, applications, slope fields,
and modeling are covered.
Prerequisite: Calculus AB
Content:
› This course requires a knowledge of topics
covered in Calc AB.
› Additional topics of parametric, polar and
vector functions, analysis of the graphs,
velocity and acceleration, differential
equations using Euler’s method and
polynomial approximations.
Prerequisite: Chemistry I and Algebra II
Content:
› Gases, equations, stoichiometry, organic,
nuclear, kinetics, thermodynamics, and
coordination chemistry
Prerequisite: Computer Programming II
Content:
› Emphasizes object oriented programming
methodology.
› Concentration on problem solving and
algorithm development.
› Includes the study of data structures, design,
and abstraction
Junior Year Course
Content:
› Lengthy expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays.
› Required summer readings.
Senior Year Course
Content:
› Intensive writing as a response to the
extensive reading of all literary genres from a
variety of time periods.
› Required summer readings
› Demonstrate critical and analytical thought
› Participate in frequent discussions to refine
the writing process.
Prerequisite: Latin III
Content:
› Students will translate, scan, analyze, and
interpret 1800 lines from Vergil’s epic poem
The Aeneid.
› Latin meter, vocabulary (6000 new words),
grammar studies, historical figures, Augustan
age history, and language mastery skills.
› Worth 1 credit and meets 1 period per day
Prerequisite: Advanced Math, Physics I
Content:
› Lab oriented program designed to
supplement physics.
› Topics discussed are electricity and
magnetism, modern physics and nuclear
science.
› For students planning to major in math,
physics or engineering.
Content:
› Advanced level (5th or 6th semester)
› Intended for those students who took
Spanish 1 in 8th grade, however, to “test out”
of Spanish 4, see Mrs. Isenberg ASAP.
› Emphasizing the use of Spanish for active
communication, oral skills, reading
comprehension, grammar, and composition.
› Demonstrate understanding of authentic
Spanish language source material.
Content:
› Analytical perspective on government and
politics in the US.
› General concepts used to interpret US
government with specific examples.
› Becoming familiar with various institutions,
groups, beliefs, and ideas that constitute US
government and politics.
April Zluchowski
AP Coordinator
759-6400 ext. 3106
[email protected]