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AP Capstone Seminar
Course Policies – 2016-2017
You have not learned if you have not learned to question and revise yet. You must question everything and constantly grow in your understanding of the world and your place in it. To help you accomplish this, our classroom will be a place of constant inquiry, research, revision, accountability, and collaboration. We will inquire about everything, asking how? why? so what? We will revise everything: your writing, my writing, our ideas, our assumptions, my teaching practices, and your learning styles. This course teaches accountability for your work, actions, learning, beliefs, successes, and failures. Our classroom will always strive to maintain an atmosphere that empowers all of us to think critically, independently, and without fear of being “wrong.” I am not afraid to show you that I do not know everything and that I am, first and foremost, a student, too. As such, we all will work together as learners in this course to reach our best and greatest potential.
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The junior-level AP Capstone Energy course is a seminar-style course featuring guided discussion, debates, student presentations, and guest speakers. Fall semester studies prepare students for the College Board-moderated team projects, individual presentations and written exam.
The course examines selected topics related to energy, providing opportunities for students to develop skills identified in the learning objectives of the enduring understandings within the AP Capstone QUEST big ideas.
The AP Capstone Seminar Course Learning Objectives:
- develops transferable key academic skills through collecting and analyzing information with accuracy and precision, and crafting, communicating, and defending evidence-based arguments;
- complements the discipline-specific study provided through other AP courses and exams;
- provides opportunities to make cross-curricular connections by exploring topics, questions, and ideas from multiple perspectives;
- helps students become curious, independent, and collaborative scholars who know how to make logical and evidence-based decisions;
- collaborate in a learning community, fostering understanding and acceptance of divergent viewpoints;
- contribute honestly and diligently to seminar discussions, projects, and group learning activities;
- write in clear and organized language appropriate to a variety of specific purposes;
- develop writing skills that include wide-ranging vocabulary; a variety of sentence structures; logical organization; a balance of generalization and specific, illustrative detail; and effective rhetoric;
- write and rewrite extended analyses and in class timed responses; and
- write informal, exploratory responses; expository, analytical responses; and analytical, argumentative responses.
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Classroom Expectations:
- Be prepared.
- Respect others.
- Give 100% effort.
- Follow the LPHS school rules.
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Materials Needed:
- Binder or Folder
- Notebook Paper, LOTS of it
- Pens
- School-issued laptop everyday
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Grading: Below is the breakdown of how grades will be recorded. You can expect at least TWO exams per six weeks, so each exam is worth 20% of your six weeks average.
Major40%
Minor50%
Reading/Writing Assignments10%
Total100%
Late Work/Make up Work:Because this is a college course (and not merely like a college course), late work will only be accepted up to 3 class days. Due to the nature of the assignment and the lengthy notification, under no circumstances will AP Capstone Projects be accepted late.
1 Day85%
2 Days75%
3 or more Days50%
If you are absent, it is your responsibility to gather the work you missed while you were absent. Work will be in the blue folders by the door marked by the day. Additionally, with the exception of essays or tests, I post assignments on my faculty webpage the day we do the work for you to access from home.If you are absent when we have a timed writing, it is your responsibility to make up the essay within ONE WEEK of the date it was administered. If you exceed one week, you will receive a zero (0) for the essay.
Tutorials:School tutorials are held every Wednesday and Thursday from 2:45-3:45. Please talk to me if you would like to schedule a different time for tutorials.
AP Capstone™ Policy on Plagiarism and Falsification or Fabrication of Information:
Participating teachers shall inform students of the consequences of plagiarism and instruct students to ethically use and acknowledge the ideas and work of others throughout their course work. The student's individual voice should be clearly evident, and the ideas of others must be acknowledged, attributed, and/or cited.
A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information or evidence taken from the work of someone else through citation, attribution, or reference in the body of the work, or through a bibliographic entry, will receive a score of 0 on that particular component of the AP® Seminar and/or AP Research Performance Assessment Task. In AP® Seminar, a team of students that fails to properly acknowledge sources or authors on the Written Team Report will receive a group score of 0 for that component of the Team Project and Presentation.
A student who incorporates falsified or fabricated information (e.g., evidence, data, sources, and/or authors) will receive a score of 0 on that particular component of the AP Seminar and/or AP Research Performance Assessment Task. In AP Seminar, a team of students that incorporates falsified or fabricated information in the Written Team Report will receive a group score of 0 for that component of the Team Project and Presentation.
Units of Study:The following units will be covered during the fall semester to build skills necessary for the College Board-moderated team projects, individual presentations and written exam in the spring semester.
- Nutritional and Biological Energy
- The Denton Fracking Debate
- Global Energy Consumption and Dependency
- Sustainable Energy and the Environment
- The Economy of Energy
- Who Solves the Energy Dilemma?
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Contact info:
Eveline Bailey
281.604.7589
Remind 101: @fa6bcg
Twitter: @aplitbailey
Conference Period: 2nd period
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Dear Parent/Guardian,
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After reading theAP Seminar Course Policies for 2016-2017, please fill out the information below.
Feel free to contact me at any time, although email is best. I check email daily during the school week. You can also try to contact me by phone, but I do not always pick up the phone during class time, and it is likely to go straight to voicemail. I will, however, return your call as soon as possible if you leave a voicemail.
Please note this information is also available on the AP Seminar Course Policies page.
I look forward to working with you and your student this year!
Sincerely,
Eveline M. Bailey
AP English Literature and Composition, AP Seminar
English Department Chair, AP Programs & AP Capstone Director
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