Brenda Royal
Count down til Spring Break
Monday/Tuesday, March 24-25: Wrap Up Unit 6 with discussion of mutations and bacterial transformation.
Wednesday, March 26: Straight 8- MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST for Unit 6. You'll have 45 minutes to complete 18 questions. There will be NO FINISHING LATER. College Board allots 1.5 minutes for each multiple choice question, so 18 questions SHOULD be completed in 27 minutes. Unless you have an extended time plan, FINISH before the bell.
Thursday, March 27: One long FRQ and maybe a short one. My current plan is a different FRQ for each class, because I'm so very very tired of cheating.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28: SPIRIT DAY. Have a wonderful spring break and seniors, have a wonderful 2 week hiatus from school. Seniors, please understand that school continues while you're out playing the entire week. Check TEAMS on April 6th to see what you're missing.
We have 10 days of class together after spring break before the AP Exam on May 5th.
St. Patrick's Day & the next four
Monday/Tuesday, 3/17-18: Review the FRQ's from Unit 5- Repeating the things I say every time we have an FRQ:
ATP: Answer the prompt. Read the question carefully.
Write complete sentences but be succinct. Don't repeat yourself.
Stop starting sentences with "It", "They", or "Because" without
making reference to the nouns those pronouns reference.
Sickle Cell-Central Dogma Activity with Card Sort - A hard copy for every person is on the table beside the door in Room 125. SO, if you don't want to have to print it from home, come by and pick it up. The card sort for every two people is also available, and I'll put the virtual card sort in TEAMS for anyone who isn't in class Tuesday. (Yes, Juniors, I know you have to take the ACT.)
Sickle Cell - Natural Selection in Humans
A Genetic Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease
Some St. Patrick's Day Biology (NO, I am not condoning beer drinking in minors- but it's
a good review of anaerobic respiration and it's meant for a few laughs!)
Wednesday/Thursday, March 19-20: Central Dogma Wet Lab. The hard copy you'll get W/TH will be a fraction of this (since I just used up all my copies on the Sickle Cell packet, but the background info in this lab is good and you should read it as a review of Central Dogma...woof)
Friday: FRQ Practice Unit 6
February 24-28 - CERT & Boot Camp...and DECA....and YIG...
Because we have yet another disjointed week, you can find your assignments on TEAMS. I will gladly answer questions during class time but with so many people out of any given class, you'll need to use your Unit 5 CED to prompt your own directed studies. The good news is that this unit is heavily a review of Bio I genetics. The 5.5 topic of the unit on Environmental Influences/Epigenetics/Phenotypic Plasticity may be the only unit that is new.
5.1 Meiosis
Review your video - or Bozeman's if yours is not complete.
5.2 Meiosis and Genetic Diversity
Can you name 5 sources of genetic variation?
5.3 Mendelian Genetics
SO many words. Vocab review quiz in TEAMS.
5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics - Includes sex-linked and linked genes.
The PIVOT labs. The pedigree worksheet, and the sex-linked practice problems done in class
5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype NEW GRADE OPTION: Phenotypic Plasticity Worksheet - in teams and on the table inside the door.
5.6 Chromosomal Inheritance. Look at the illustrative examples they list:
Sickle cell anemia
Tay-Sachs disease
Huntington’s disease
X-linked color blindness
Trisomy 21/Down syndrome
Illustrative examples are just that- EXAMPLES. You don't have to know these in detail, but focus on one- how it's inherited, what's the genetic "mistake", what are the symptoms, what groups does it affect.
IF/when you are IN the classroom, expect to be doing practice quizzes and practice FRQ's. PLEASE GO THROUGH THE MATERIALS IN TEAMS SO YOU CAN ASK QUESTIONS IN CLASS.
FINISH THE PIVOT LABS ON LINKED GENES AND SEX-LINKAGE BY FRIDAY. NO LATE EXTENSIONS!!
You will have had 2 full weeks at that point.
The first week in March we'll run a lab early in the week and test this unit March 5 & 6.
Monday/Wednesday: January 27,29: Finish Unit 3 FRQ's. 3 Short FRQ's - 30 minute time limit.
Start the Pivot Lab on Mitosis assigned on Pivot in Clever. You have ONE WEEK TO FINISH THIS VIRTUAL LAB. IT IS DUE SUNDAY NIGHT, February 2nd.
Thursday/Friday: January 30,31: Make a signal transduction pathway stop action video to be submitted to Benchfly. This is a team project and will be explained in class.
Since you have an extra day, and we have had 5 days together in January, I am assigning work for Tuesday. I have only seen you 5 days in January- we have to do something to try to catch up.
Watch Bozeman Science Signal Transduction Pathways and complete the Viewing guide picked up in class (A day) or in FILES, (B DAY). Due by Friday, January 31st.
Work on the Eukaryotic Cell Division & Cancer HHMI Interactive, picked up in class.
Watch the first set of AP Classroom videos.
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