<p>@dsi411 Cool! Did you have to get reccommended for it? </p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Yea same. Do you know if you have to get reccommended for it? Lol i know I am asking this to a lot of people but I am curious to see what things are like elsewhere. There are always big debates about if kids should be able to go in without the teacher’s approval, while the teachers are very selective and it’s annoying because the kids just want to challenge themselves. </p>
<p>Guess who doesn’t want to write outlines for two essays? I don’t. This is going to be a bad week…</p>
<p>@schmonstar I’d take it, but my school doesn’t offer it. Their philosophy is that AP Lit counts for two semesters instead of one semester, so you might as well just take that senior year instead of taking both Lit and Lang. We have an Honors English 11 which is basically the equivalent of Lang, however (it’s even UC weighted–and the UCs don’t weight most honors courses; for my school, it’s only two: Honors English 11 and Honors Precalc).</p>
<p>@schmonstar No, I didn’t have to get recommended for it, I think you just have to have an A or B in Pre-AP English to take AP English at my school. The only subject that teachers place us in at our school is math, we get to choose the others as long as we meet the prerequisites.</p>
<p>@schmonstar Yeah, at my school you have to be recommended.</p>
<p>First of all, you need to have an A- (or B+ in certain circumstances) and must have fulfilled all of the prerequisites to be considered. Then you have to have a meeting with your current Honors English teacher and ask him or her for a signature. Then you have to have get the approval of the department head. After that, its luck if there is enough room. First people to hand in their course selection sheet get first pick at classes. The same thing happens in math/science/history/languages and not just in AP. To get recommended for honors, you have to get the signature of your current math/science/history/language/english teacher, just not the department head. To get into a college prep class (regular class, or the stupid classes as they are notoriously known as at my school) you don’t need any signatures or recommendations, just the preresquitistes (so Alg2 to take PreCalc).</p>
<p>We need signatures, but it’s not nearly as intense as that… Teachers generally don’t care who they sign off on unless they’re doing really, really badly in the class. As long as you have an A or B in the honors course or an A in the regular course, you’re generally allowed to take the AP (only exception: Calc BC; you must have above a 90% in Honors Precalculus to be signed off). Most people don’t fail courses as a general thing at my school (although there is this one 43% in my Precalc class…)</p>
<p>I just took my math exam, and I think that may have been the hardest math test I’ve ever taken. </p>
<p>What was the exam on?</p>
<p>@dsi411 Algebra II. Things like function transformations, composition of functions, a basic way to get differential quotients, linear functions, interval notation, sets, rational exponents, inequalities, absolute value combined with inequalities, etc. Chapter R, 1, and 2 of Lial, Hornsby, and Schneider’s College Algebra, 10th edition. </p>
<p>@schmonstar I had to write about why I want to take the course, and get approved.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses @topaz1116 @dsi411 @Spiral7 @livelaugh7 I don’t think I will even take it. I really want to, but I only have an A- and my teacher probably won’t recommend me. </p>
<p>Looks like its back to all honors classes for junior year.</p>
<p>I’m super-stressed about Scholastic this year; I really hope I at least win a silver key for one of my poems/my story.</p>
<p>Probably not the best thing to say, but what is that? @topaz1116 </p>
<p>@schmonstar Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; they’re basically the most prestigious awards you can win for writing and/or art in high school and middle school. A silver key is regional recognition; you get “keys” at the regional level and “medals” at the national level. You need a gold key in order to be considered for a national award.</p>
<p>The winners are generally really, really, really good. You can see some of their stuff on the awards website, and it’s amazing. </p>
<p>@topaz1116 I am sure you can win one if you believe in yoursel</p>
<p>Can you do poetry? How do you submit your work?</p>
<p>@schmonstar You can do poetry, and you submit your work online (however, you have to send in some forms that are signed by your teacher and must be postmarked by the regional deadline). I’d check the website if you have some stuff written that you want to submit; the regional deadline for you might not be over yet. The website is: artandwriting.org</p>
<p>Have you guys taken finals yet?</p>
<p>Mine are in late January.</p>