Dear AP Biology

Dear AP Biology students for Mrs.Gillespie at South and Mr. Fitzgerald at North, Home Page

We are very excited about teaching AP Biology this year. The main benefit of taking this course is that each of you will get an “AP experience” which means you will have a chance to experience a “college course”. Your teacher will work as a team with you to master the concepts and complete the material. We are looking forward to having all of you in my classes.

This “website” will post the AP Biology weekly syllabus, project descriptions, links to outside reading and other documents to reference. Please bookmark Mrs. Gillespie's website. This website will be shared by both north and south calsses. You will also have access to your text on line as an“E book” and to the author's website that offers support material and virtual labs that go with the text. When school starts your teacher will give you the actual text. Your text is:

We will issue you a text when we meet but you do have some preclass reading and writing to complete . If you are a South student, you may

come to Mrs. Gillespie's house and get your text before school starts if you like OR you can read your text on line by registering at the publisher's

website below. Please contact Mrs.Gillespie by email to arrange for a text pickup at her house. Books will only be available for

Books can be picked up Monday evening August 20th and again on August 22 and 23rd.

In order to access the Campbell website you must register now as a first time student user using the ACCESS CODE (in all caps ) described below.

Please visit  http://phschool.com/access/campbell_bio.html

 to register. Choose your text from the Covered Titles list.  Then click on  Student Registration and

 a new window will open where you can enter the acess code.

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 Accept the terms ;   enter as a new user; fill in the  access code above, zip code and country  proceed to next page.  Your password must have a minimum

of 8 characters with at least one number.  Your school name is Nashua High South .

After entering the site, you will see a drop down menu to select a chapter. Once you select a chapter you can access the chapter reviews, activities, case studies, quizzes etc. from the gray menu on the left side of the page. The E book is located at a separate site. If you want to read the E Book, click on the term E book. You must then re enter your name and personal password to access the E book site. Again, Mrs. Gillespie's students may get a textbook at my house by pre arrangement.

BEFORE SCHOOL we would like you to read the following chapters and/or chapter sections in the E Book at the Campbell site. We will be starting the year with a very quick review of Ecology followed by a test. You are expected to learn most of this material on your own. Each chapter has a quiz and there are chapter reviews at the main site where you entered. The quizzes and reviews are optional. Do the activities at the Campbell site for each chapter. You must write out the answers to the questions that are listed at the summer reading link below. You can copy the questions into a word document and then type your answers right on the document. You will be graded on this assignment. If you have a problem getting to the site, contact me at dotgillespie@comcast.net or Mrs. Fitzgerald at fitzgeralds@nashua.edu.