Update from the College Board

Here is some information that College Board posted on their web site on Friday, March 13. Keep in mind that we do not know exactly how the closing of Leland will impact the rest of the year, so we cannot be certain which scenario that the College Board has listed will apply to us. We will need to wait and see how our situation develops, but at least we can see that there are some options that could be available to us. I am planning to put up another post soon on possible review activities that can may want to do. Also, I would not suggest contacting the College Board or the Leland Administration yet as we do not know the exact details of when we will resume classroom learning again. Thanks and stay healthy, Mr. Kerwin

The AP Exam administration remains as scheduled for schools that will be open on May 4–8 and 11–15, with late testing scheduled for May 20–22.

Testing Support

Current school and district plans indicate that many schools will remain in session and administer AP Exams in May. We understand that this situation is evolving daily, however. If a school is already closed or needs to close in March or April, AP makeup testing dates will be available. Which dates best serve a school will depend on how much instructional time is lost:

• If a school is able to make up most of the lost instruction time, we recommend testing on the regularly scheduled exam dates.
• If a school needs to make up some instructional time, they may update students’ exam orders to late testing scheduled for the third week of May. Selecting “school closing: election, national holiday, or natural disaster” ensures that the late-testing fee will not be applied.
• Testing in the fourth week of May is possible, if needed, but must be requested through AP Services for Educators.
• Schools closed for extended periods of time that need even later options (i.e., June retest dates) can contact AP Services for Educators beginning in April to make such arrangements.

If a school has lost instructional days for AP 2-D Art and Design, 3-D Art and Design, Computer Science Principles, Drawing, Research, or Seminar courses and would like to request extensions for portfolio submission deadlines, please contact AP Services for Educators beginning March 16.

Changes to Unit VIII Calendar

As a reminder to what I stated in class on Wednesday, March 11, the test for Unit VIII has been moved back one class day. The new test date is Friday, March 20.

The deadline for the contextualization and thesis statement submission also has been pushed back. That deadline has moved from March 16 to March 18.

However, the Edpuzzle video quizzes and the College Board quizzes deadline have NOT changed.

Modification to the Unit VIII Lecture Pack

Because we have lost some time this unit for course selection and SAT test, so instead of doing four contextualization and thesis statements, you will only need to do THREE.

Friday writing activity on immigration

• Class work: The students will be writing and submitting an online writing assignment. They will use their own computers or get the Chromebook assigned to their seat to create a Google doc. They will share that document with me (my email address that they will use to share the document is: JKerwin@sjusd.org). The document needs to be shared and finalized by the end of the period.
• They will use the two-page handout contrasting the reaction to immigration in the 1840s-1850s with the reaction to immigration in the 1910s-1920s.
• I have also posted a two-page PDF file of the portion of the textbook that deals with the immigration in the 1910s-1920s (they may want to read this to gain more background on the topic). In addition, there is a PDF copy of the handout on immigration that the students can access in the “Files and Links” page if there are not enough copies for everyone.
• The document they will create will include:
• a thesis statement for the prompt
• two supporting paragraphs
• each paragraph should be 6-10 sentences long
• each paragraph should have a main idea
• each paragraphs should have evidence that is connected to the main idea of the paragraph
• at least one paragraph should be how the two reactions to immigration differed and the second paragraph may be a second difference or could be a similarity
• The document they create does NOT have to include:
• contextualization
• a third supporting paragraph
• a conclusion

Confirm your AP exam status by Nov. 13

I received this information this morning from the school's front office:

• Paying for an AP test through the payment envelope/bank does NOT mean they are automatically signed up for the AP test. They need to be registered through myap.collegeboard.org for each test they are taking in order for the test to be ordered for them.
  
• Please have all students check their account at https://myap.collegeboard.org to see if their account correctly reflects the tests they will and will not (tests they opted out of) be taking. 
• If students are not registered for a test they have already paid for, they need to do so ASAP today. The join codes you shared with your classes at the beginning of the year are still working. If they need to register for a test that they are self-studying for, please have them see me.
• If you have an issue or question on this, please see Ms. Chu in the front office ASAP

AP Exam Out Form

Apparently there has been a change to how students register for AP exams. Now if you are in an AP class, you are automatically signed up the exam UNLESS you complete the opt out form and return it by the deadline on the form, October 18, 2019.

Here is more info on registering for the AP exam.

Link to reduced lunch application for lower AP exam fees

https://nutrition.sjusd.org/fma/

The link above is the online lunch reduction fee application, By completing, students will be eligible to only pay $5 per AP exam.