APCSA Update for December 3, 2001 15. Journal Prompt for the Week of November 26, 2001: What did you do last week to prepare yourself of the Fall Final in this course? Why? 16. Journal Prompt for the Week of December 3, 2001: What are your expectations for Examination Two, your Ability to Test item, that will start this week? Explain. You should have done the following: - Written in your Journal. - Turned in Position -MBCS Step 2. - Read Chapter 8. - Turned in Chapter 7 Problems - Explored Chapter 7 programs. - Written the assigned Chapter 7 program. This week: # Write in your Journal. # Know when the next Portfolio is due. Look for the Fodder List. # Make the Flash work on your workstation. # Take Examination Two. # Present Yourself! # Explore the Chapter 8 programs. # Modify a Chapter 8 program. # More AP Questions. The Knowledge Master Open - A Computerized Academic Quiz Contest - will be held starting at 1:45 pm on Wednesday December 5th. If you would like to participate, please come to the practice sessions next week in 3210. Monday and Tuesday at lunch and after school both days. Arvest ACE (Academic Competition in Education) is an academic quiz competition for high school students. Questions in the contest are drawn from 15 subjects and based primarily on the content of standard high school courses and general scholastic knowledge that students can be expected to have acquired at school or elsewhere. There are three rounds of contests during the regular Arvest ACE season that begins in mid January. If you would like to try out for the FHS ACE team, see me. Members of the winning teams could receive scholarship money! Please recall that each piece of work that you turn in should contain your Name, Date, Period, and What the work is called. Explore the APCSA web page. If you have questions or need some help, please see me, or one of your fellow students. See the Syllabus for information on how to get outside of class help. DAY -- David A. Young Fayetteville dyoung@fayar.net dyoung7@prodigy.net http://www.fayar.net/east/teacher.web/Math/young/ "No good deed goes unpunished." -Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #285