<p>We have block scheduling too, but our periods vary from 50 min to 60 min long. (My high school never makes any sense lol) Unfortunately, the period I’m in always has her for 50 minutes. She’s a great lecturer and everything, but somehow we always end up going off topic because some idiot (it’s always the same person who want doesn’t to learn) asks her an irrelevant question.</p>
<p>I totally agree AP is all massive death cramming, which is so agonizing.</p>
<p>I might look into REA Crash Course. I’m sort of desperate here…</p>
<p>Whoa, my class is way behind it seems. We do all of ecology over winter break, and we did finish evolution, but I’m starting to worry. Looks like I’m going to need to self-study.</p>
<p>Just looked up my teacher’s syllabus. This explains a lot.</p>
<p>Course reflects 159 teaching days before AP exam (10 May 2010). Days per unit reflect the percentages listed in the Course Planner and are as follows:
Introduction: 22 days (includes majority of Evolution)
Unit I Cells and Molecules: 39 days
Unit II Heredity: 25 days (includes remainder of Evolution)
Unit III Organisms and Populations: 23 days
Unit IV Plants: 15 days
Unit V Animals: 23 days
Unit VI Ecology: 9 days (not including time students research topics on their own over winter break)
Review for AP exam: 4 days (7 class periods)</p>
<p>For those who are farther ahead, does this seem reasonable? Are the later sections on plants and ecology much easier to learn than the earlier ones in your opinions, or is this time distribution a bit strange?</p>
<p>wow, it seems like my class is really behind. but based off previous classes, my teacher seems to skip a lot of topics. The topics she doesn’t really touch upon the previous year is what she goes over the next year. </p>
<p>We outlined Ch.50-53 over the summer, and did 3, 41, and 42 in the Campbell book. We’re going over the ecology section next, I believe.</p>
<p>Chapter 15…we did 1-7 over the summer.
but the class is so boring, it seems like all we do are slides and labs. i feel like im learning nothing.</p>
<p>we just finished classification and then plants, now we are on animals i guess? I don’t pay attention in my class, don’t even know when the test is.</p>
<p>We just finished Chapter 15 I think (Campell’s), about… uh… well, we’re one chapter away from our Genetics unit exam. Next is the two units on Evolution, then plants, then animals, then ecology.</p>
<p>Wow, most of you guys did evolution first. :O</p>
<p>We did ecology over the summer, then basic building blocks of cells, organelles, mitosis, meiosis, respiration, photosynthesis, plant structure (hardest part so far), and now we’re on plant hormones.</p>
<p>We started with chemistry, then to water, carbon, macromolecules.
Then we skipped to animal digestion, circulation, gas exchange, defense and regulation. Then plant structure, growth, reproduction, digestion, and biotechnology. Then metabolism, the cell, biological membranes, cellular respiration, and then just did photosynthesis. Now its break, and we have 2 ecology chapters to do. Most work ever.</p>
<p>Is anyone else using campbell’s 6th edition?</p>
<p>We just started evolution/Hardy Weinberg equilibrium before the winter break. Apparently, we’re behind the other class by like 2-5 chapters as they’re on prokaryotes. (Campbell book)</p>
<p>^Same here. We did the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium and we’re about to finish genetics. Then were doing prokaryotes and then moving on to ecology. Genetics has been the easiest part for me so far, probably since there’s less memorization involved.</p>
<p>We are using Campbell & Reece 8th Edition and we have done the first five of eight units so far. That includes the chemistry of life, the cell, genetics, evolution, and biodiversity. We are skipping ahead to ecology and reading the last unit over break.</p>