See detailed calendar on the lesson plans for more details.

Monday:  Inheritance Unit project due by 11:59 pm.  This is a major assessment grade.  Late penalties will be enforced.  Students have had this project for a month.  Class time will be spent on ArrayList review (timed MC questions)
Tuesday:  Array review and timed MC questions
Wednesday:  ArrayList and Array FRQ practice
Thursday:  Searching and Sorting review and timed MC questions
Friday:  Review boolean expressions, order of operations & number conversions. Timed MC questions., 

Looking ahead:
Wednesday, May 2nd:  Final exam after school.  3:45 - 7:00 in G125 & G127.  This is mandatory.  It will be a full length AP exam and will count as the final exam grade for our course. Students should arrive by 3:45.  Exam will start promptly at 4:00.  There will be 90 for MC, a fifteen minute break and then 90 minutes for FRQ.

Friday, May 4th:  Make up exam from 3:45 - 7:00 in G125.  Only for those who obtained permission from Mrs. Whitlock to take the exam on the make up day.

Monday:  Lab day for recursion labs or major project
Tuesday:  Mergesort
Wednesday:  String review. MC questions & FRQ
Thursday:  Conditionals review. MC & FRQ
Friday:  Loops review.  MC questions

Link to more detailed lesson plans

Welcome Back!
Monday:  We will go over the Inheritance test
Tuesday:  Introduction to recursion - activities and logic
Wednesday:  Guided practice with recursion problems & check in class
Thursday:  Recursion labs 8.1 & 8.2; coding bat assignment
Friday:  Lab day

Link to lesson plans
Standards for this unit

Monday:  Review Inheritance - basics review group for students who have been absent or independently work thru sample MC questions
Tuesday:  Review inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces and polymorphism
Wed:  MC test
Thursday:  FRQ test
Friday:  Lab day to work on Chapter 7 project

Monday:  Return tests from Chapter 6b and discuss.  Students continue working on vehicle lab and will be adding polymorphic code.  Finished lab due on Thursday.
Tuesday:  Casting in Inheritance.  Begin class activity
Wednesday:  Finish class activity
Thursday:  Quiz on casting.  Run vehicle lab.  Receive unit project description.
Friday:  Mrs. Whitlock will be out.  Students can work on unit project or review packet.

Test on Wednesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 29.
Unit project due on Friday, March 30

I was absent several days last week due to an illness.  I really appreciate the students working hard and keeping up with the assignments while I was out.  We are down to two months until the AP exam and it is imperative that the students keep working hard.  The finish line is in sight!

This week...
Monday:  Quick review of inheritance through warm ups & review.  We will discuss abstract classes (syntax, implementation and purpose).  If time, we will dig further into polymorphism.
Tuesday:  AnimalFun activity in class.  Begin lab 2.  Students will finish and run this code on Thursday.
Wednesday:  Digital learning assignment due.  Quiz on inheritance.  Introduction to interfaces.
Thursday:  Run lab 2 in class.  Coding day for Vehicle lab, part 3
Friday:  Introduction to casting in inheritance.  Class activity.

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We will jump into Chapter 7 - Inheritance this week.
Monday:  Introduction to inheritance group activity and demo of coding.
Tuesday:  Lab 1
Wed & Thursday:  lab 2
Friday:  No school.  This will be a digital learning day.  All students will be completing an assignment on codingbat.com

Monday:  Review for test and continue with picture lab
Tuesday:  Mrs. Whitlock will be in a meeting during the school day.  Students will complete practice multiple choice questions to practice for the test.  After school study session from 3:45 - 4:45.
Wednesday:  MC portion of the test on Chapter 6 (study session from 7:30 - 8:00 am)
Thursday:  practice FRQ
Friday:  FRQ portion of the test on Chapter 6

Monday:  No school - Presidents Day
Tuesday:  Return Array 1 test and discuss.  Begin college board picture lab for APCSA.  Work through activity 5 in class.
Wednesday:  Picture lab, activity 6
Thursday:  Picture lab, activity 7
Friday:  Practice quiz and review for test

TEST ON ALL OF CHAPTER 6:  MONDAY, FEB. 26 MULTIPLE CHOICE
            WEDNESDAY, FEB 28 FRQ

Monday:  Mrs. Whitlock will be absent.  Students work on Search & Sort lab
Tuesday:  Shopping cart, part 2 due
Wednesday:  Intro to 2D arrays
Thursday:  Begin picture lab
Friday:  Continue with picture lab

​See lesson plans link for files needed for Shopping cart lab and Search & Sort lab