key concepts and institutions of the political system and culture of the United States. You’ll read, analyze, and discuss the U.S. Constitution and other documents as well as complete a research or applied civics project. Textbooks The American Democracy by Thomas E. Patterson Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges by Charles Hauss Barron’s How to Prepare for the AP US Government and Politics Advanced Placement Examination by Curt Lader

Textbook Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis by Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen and Jay Devore Barron’s AP Statistics Other Reading “A Lady Tasting Tea” by David Salsburg “Visual Display of Quantitative Information” by Edward Tufte How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan Online Resources Coursera, edX, Stanford, Class Central and Udacity all have intro to Statistics courses.

The AP Spanish Language Exam is a 3-4 hour skill-based exam testing your abilities and proficiency in Spanish. It is not a knowledge-based exam like most other AP exams. You are “on-stage” in Spanish for over 3 hours, integrating all of your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, as well as cultural information acquired during your Spanish studies over the years. There are sections for multiple choice written, multiple choice audio, written free response and spoken free response.

Some homeschooling parents don’t feel qualified to teach AP classes to their students. What can be done by the student on their own? Here are some ideas to empower the student to own the AP experience. Start with an Overview Look at the main ideas of the course. What will be the primary topics? What is the structure of the test? What are the essays and multiple choice questions? You can find this information on College Board’s site.

This is a great course to explore ideas, theories, and methods of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Online Resources Crash Course: watched videos throughout the year but found that they were not very helpful for review. Textbook Meyer Felt too casual and not very professional. Wasn’t super concise but it did stick pretty closely to things covered on AP exam. Barron’s This was the only review book I used and it was super useful.

Prerequisites: algebra 1 and 2 Basic Details AP Physics Reviewbook

Behavior of Individuals within an economic system

For me, forsythia and daffodils are friendly reminders of the abundance of springtime. Yellow feels so happy and cheerful. I love spring in general, but yellow specifically, as a herald of growth and vitality. Imagine my disappointment when I learned last week that my child can’t see yellow. At all. Never in her life has she seen yellow. She is a teenager and we are only just now noticing this yellow deficiency!

For five years now, we’ve been reading daily as a family in the Spanish language. Reading in Spanish is predictable; there are few exceptions. Though our accents aren’t perfect, at this point, we are all able to sound out any Spanish word. Learning to read Spanish is a huge help to all of us, but especially to my children with dyslexia. They cannot guess at the Spanish word, instead, they need to slow down and read each syllable.

Feeling wounded by her fourteen-year-olds Tyrannosaurus-like outburst, my friend slumped across the park bench. She looked defeated as she told me about her son’s disappointment with their recent family celebration which she had cut short in expectation of the demands of his 4:30 am workouts. “You never let me do anything fun!” he had yelled when she encouraged him to head to bed early, reminding him of the agreement they had previously made.