Funny, I just had a debate today in my Honors Government class. We had to debate a bill (ours was the Student Protection Act on gun safety) and had to choose a side on whether it should pass legislation to become a law. It was fairly easy and I got bonus points for dressing up!
@dsi411 ooh, I remember Citizens United! When I did debate in eighth grade (public forum), one of our topics included Citizens United. Actually, I think it was about it.
Just found it: On balance, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission harms the election process.
If you want any of my old resources, I probably still have them on Drive somewhere.
Basically, our whole case was about how Citizens United was bad. Looking back on it, it wasn’t the best case, but I don’t think I went to any tournaments with it; it’s acceptable for Novice, but it basically reasserted the same points over and over again. Citizens United gives the wealthy a greater vote in the elections process, allows candidates with more funding to win, increases negativity, blah blah blah.
For those of you taking AP World history, have any of you started your review books and what chapter is your class in? (topic-wise) We are currently on the French Rev.
I feel weirdly peaceful right now. I feel like I’ve reached some new level of mathematical maturity even though it doesn’t show up in scores and even though everything is in the process of ramping up (the next three weeks are going to be crazy) I know that it’s all going to be okay in the end, and that’s a really powerful thing.
I slept for 1.25 hours last night and it wasn’t fun.
@Faultystart that sounds terrible! why?!
@topaz1116 Oh, I saw your post a bit too late. Oh well. I guess it didn’t go that bad even though a person in our group was gone. At least I said something!
@SallyStephens I haven’t started my review book but we’re on the Great Depression right now and we’ll start World War II on Monday.
@SallyStephens I haven’t even bought my review book yet since I don’t know which one’s the best to get. Because my school’s in a block schedule I don’t even have AP World History at the moment, but I have some friends who do and I think they’re studying independence movements in India, Latin America, and Africa at the moment.
Hi guys, I haven’t posted in a while! 
Not much interesting stuff has happened lately. I’m on my new term which is my easiest term of high school so far. I only have Algebra II, English, P.E., and Japanese. Obviously, I don’t have to do anything for P.E., and Algebra II is really easy for me for some reason (but really boring LOL). We had a long-term sub for Japanese who didn’t even know Japanese, but she left today. So my hardest class right now is English and possibly Japanese, since our new teacher’s a bit hard. He seems cool, though, and he knows a lot of Japanese despite just graduating from college.
Also, in case anyone’s interested, these are the AP classes I signed up for next year:
• AP Chemistry
• AP Psychology
• AP U.S. History
• AP Language and Composition
@Greninja the best is Barron’s!!!
oh and you’ll love AP Chem. If you have any questions about the class, let me know!! I’m in it currently.
@SallyStephens AP World History isn’t offered at our school, but AP European History is, which I’m taking at the moment.
I wish AP Chem was offered at my school… we’re not funded very well, apparently.
@SallyStephens That’s what I was thinking of getting. I’m just not sure about it because some people say that its information is too specific. At the same time I’m reluctant about getting Princeton Review because I got the book for AP Human Geography and I wanted to get a 5 but ended up getting a 4. Then again I didn’t study and I barely used the review book because I thought I knew everything, when I walked into the exam I ended up flopping on the multiple-choice exam. 
Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes this year, though. My older sister got a 5 and I want to get the same score as her, and my AP World History teacher has this thing where he he has an “AP Wall of Fame” on one side of his classroom where he has a list of ALL of his students from the past and present who have passed their AP exams along with their score. 
We don’t have Euro at our school, and World is an elective for 11th and 12th graders.
I was talking to my cousin (who’s a senior who has, as of now, been accepted into the honors colleges/programs of all the universities she’s heard back from) and she made me super-worried about my schedule for next year (mainly the AP Calc BC, Physics 1, and Chem aspect of it). Apparently this one senior who got into Harvard EA (he’s also like, representing California at some Senate thing or something and state DECA president? I don’t know) barely scraped a B- (read: 79.9) second semester Calc BC last year… Obviously, he had a lot of other things going for him, but still. And my cousin (who hasn’t gotten a single B since an 89.9 in freshman year Honors English that wasn’t rounded up) barely got an A- in AP Chem second semester. She said that all the courses get really hard second semester, and now I’m really worried.
I’m probably going to change Spanish 4 to Ethnic Studies or Anatomy/Physiology or Creative Writing/Public Speaking. Spanish 4 might look better, but it’s hell. Of the three, which one do you think will look the best? I’m leaning towards Ethnic Studies right now, since the information you learn seems really interesting and there are no tests. I’m going to have to have one of the others as an option for senior year, as both of these courses will be in the case that I don’t get into Journalism.
On another note, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to star in a Marvel movie and the fangirl inside of me is going berserk.
so excited for the Dr. Strange movie because Cumberbatch is my favourite actor. I’m quite ashamed i haven’t seen the Imitation game yet.
I went to the movies exactly once last year, so I haven’t seen many movies… I still haven’t watched Interstellar, the Theory of Everything, or the Imitation Game.
How is everyone doing?
I don’t think I’ve had a day more average than today in a while.
for once, I don’t have 4 back to back to back to back tests, quizzes or projects on Friday
…because I have a math test, chem test, and in class essay on Monday.
screw my life.
So I need some help deciding between AP Stats and AP PSychology as an elective. I am already taking AP English language, AP spanish language, AP Us history, AP Physics, Precalculus honors, and reilgion
AP stats will be online so I can start over the summer and kinda get ahead and mostly finish it early and not be so overwhelmed during the school year. But, AP Psych at my school is almost like a regular class because it is so easy. Plus the test is really easy from what I hear. But, then again don’t colleges know ap psych is really easy??? And I’m not really that interested in psych even it is easy. But a lot of my friends are doing it so I’m stuck between both. Help
@Calchong if you aren’t interested in psych, don’t take the AP. Which one are you more interested in?