What's Going On? February 12th through 15th

 Thought for the Week

Modified Schedule for Our Short Week:  This week, our schedule will look a little different.  On Monday, we will run a FRIDAY schedule.  The rest of the week will run as normal.  However, on Thursday, we will have a shortened schedule due to our early release day.  All students will have a day off on Friday.  Enjoy your February break!

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will work on our lesson 3 web assignments.  Students will turn in our lesson 3 reading guide on Monday and complete our weekly multiple-choice questions on Tuesday.  To go along with lesson 3, students will complete two different web page assignments.  In 3A, students will demonstrate their ability to mark up ordered lists, unordered lists, and description lists.  In assignment 3B, students will work with structural tags to mark up a document.  We have already worked with heading tags and paragraph tags, so students will get some further practice with these.  Additionally, students will learn how to code special characters, such as the copyright symbol, and add additional structure to our page using the "section" and "article" tags.  

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will get started on their official "Create" performance tasks that we will submit to the AP board as part of our AP exam score.  We will spend Monday's class brainstorming, talking about the project requirements, choosing groups, and deciding on a topic.  The rest of the week will be devoted to student work time to get started on the project.  Students will get 8 hours of class time to work on the project that will be submitted to the AP board.  On the exam day in May, students will answer questions related to their code as well as answer 70 multiple-choice questions.