@frazzledazzle Honors and AP are the same weight at your school? That’s terrible lol.
It’s weird, in our school you can only take physics in senior year.
It is a strict curriculum that goes like this:
9th Grade: Environmental Science
10th Grade: Biology
11th Grade: Chemistry
12 Grade: Physics
bu in 11th and 12th you can also do other science classes.
@frazzledazzle Astronomy is my friend’s life too. She is planning on going into astronomy in college and maybe interning at a nearby observatory. I also just checked the prerequisites for Physics I. You only need Algebra I and Geometry and be in the 10th grade at least.
@Madeline25 We have one good AP Physics teacher and one bad one. As an aspiring engineer, take AP Physics would be challenging, but would look good if I pass. I need to take a Physics class before I graduate. My Chemistry teacher also doesn’t recommend taking AP Physics then AP Chemistry, since you might forget some of the Chemistry.
We don’t get any weight at my school 
@Madeline25 It’s okay. My guidance counselor suggested that I take the class next year instead of over the summer so I have a better foundation of Calculus basics for AP Calc AB senior year to get an A in the class.
@HelloThereHola I hate it since I’m in AP Biology right now. It’s a lot harder than Honors, but is weighted the same. I will be happy about it next year when I’m in Honors Chemistry. 
@apple1893 That is similar at my school, but 9th grade you take Earth Science (unless you’re in STEM Academy - they take Physics 9th grade).
@ak2018 I already know I’m going to major in an Astronomy-related field and am currently in the process of emailing my local university about researching there. The new director said he’d put in a good word for me at the university and with one of his friends who works with exoplanets on Mauna Kea. 
@frazzledazzle Well that’s great!
My school weighs honors and AP the same, but if you take a honors class that is offered at AP then the weight is halved. I take honors bio instead of AP, so its only weighted +.25.
My English midterm is today. I’m not ready. :s
For anyone choosing classes for next year, I would highly recommend talking to students and teachers who are in that class. I am planning to talk to some teachers who will teach my classes throughout the month. Ever since yesterday, everyone at my school is so jittery about getting teacher recommendations. I just talked to one of the Func/Trig teachers and she was so nice. I’m going to talk with my counselor at 1pm today about recommendations. I also talked to my English teacher and he said that based off my grade and the way I contribute to our class discussions, he is going to recommend me for AP English, but I probably won’t do it.
Also, I would recommend talking to your current teachers about their recommendations for you.
Grade Update:
Computer Math and HPE I - A
Spanish I - B+
Algebra II, Pre-AP Chemistry, Pre-AP World History, and Pre-AP English 10 - B
I’m doing pretty well in Spanish. We just did an oral quiz, which I got a 92, and flashcards so that should be an A once they’re put in.
I dropped from a B+ to a B in Algebra II, but that’s because of a quiz that barely anyone in my class passed. I had a 64 on the quiz. But if we pass the test, our quiz grade will be replaced.
I’m also doing well in Chemistry, one more homework assignment should bump me to a B+.
I also have my test on Ancient Rome tomorrow in World History. I have a low B in that class, so this test will make or break my grade.
For Pre-AP English, we have two tests and one essay deadline coming up. Our Frankenstein test is on February 2nd, while our Semester one vocabulary exam is on January 27th. We will be tested on all of the vocab words we’ve been doing since the beginning of the year. There are 60 words we need to have memorized and a possible total of 180 questions on the exam. Which will likely ask us to define each word, tell whether each word is a verb, noun, or adjective, and correctly spelling them. This won’t be easy!
Speaking of English class, we read a very interesting story in English class called “The Masque of The Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, a native Virginian. Here’s a summary of it (if you want to read it):
A terrible disease called the Red Death has struck the country. It’s incredibly fatal, horribly gruesome, and it’s already killed off half the kingdom. But the ruler of these parts, Prince Prospero, doesn’t seem to care about his poor, dying subjects. Instead, he decides to let the kingdom take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools—Prospero’s castle has it all. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in—the Prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either…
About five or six months into his stay, Prospero decides to have a spectacular masquerade ball (a ball where the guests wear masks and costumes). The setup is weird and wild, just like the Prince who designs it. The ball takes place in a suite of seven rooms, each one dressed up in a different color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. The black room, which looks like death, is awfully creepy—it’s got dark black walls, blood red windows, and big black clock which chimes so eerily every hour that everybody at the party stops dancing and laughs nervously. Most of the frolicking masqueraders are too weirded out to go into the black room.
Anyway, the party’s in full swing and everybody’s having a wild time when the clock strikes midnight. Everyone stops dancing and falls momentarily silent, as usual. Then some of the dancers notice a guest no one had seen before, wearing a scandalous costume. Whoever the new guest is, he’s decided to dress as a corpse, a corpse who died of… the Red Death. He’s so frighteningly lifelike (deathlike?) he freaks everybody out, and he slowly starts “stalking” through the frightened crowd. When Prince Prospero sees the ghostly guest, he’s furious that someone would have the nerve to wear such a costume, and orders him to be seized and unmasked. But no one has the guts to do it, including Prospero himself.
The Red Death masquerader passes within a few feet of the Prince and starts to walk through the rooms, heading toward the black room. Prospero loses it and runs after him in a rage, drawing his dagger as he approaches. But just as Prospero reaches the edge of the black room, the corpselike guest suddenly whirls around to face him, and Prospero falls to the ground, dead. The shocked crowd throws itself at the guest, only to discover in horror that there’s nothing underneath the mask and costume. The Red Death itself has come to the party. One by one the guests die, spilling their blood all over Prospero’s lavish rooms. The candles go out, leaving only “darkness, decay, and the Red Death.”
Oh and I’m planning on having an all-nighter tonight.
I’m upset guys. I just learned my dual enrollment World History only covers up to the 1500s (or somewhere around there). Now I’ll just have a huge gap unless I learn it myself. I guess that means the class has two parts… this being the first class. Its online through a college so maybe I could still take it next year. Does anyone know if its important for me to get the extra years of information?
@ak2018 lol good luck. I cant do it anymore; it takes the life out of me. I can only go until 1 am.
Here are my grades as of now:
APUSH: 86.1
Honors Algebra 2: 91.8
American Literature: 102.3
PLTW Human Body Systems: 96.9
Spanish 3: 92.9
AP Bio: 84.4
For APUSH I figured that if I get a 95 on the last test of the year and the final I can pull off a low A
For Algebra… It is what is lol
Spanish will go up once he puts my ec in
AP Bio will hopefully go up to a B+ once my extra credit goes in as well.
I’m a little nervous for next year. I have a lot of free time most nights (hw done at 8:00–trying to stay up later and study) so I should be able to squeeze in a few more APs but it seems scary.
@ak2018 those are solid grades, good luck on history!
And guys…my school scheduling sucks. They give us one AP class freshman year. 0 sophomore year. AND THEN… junior year has 4… Chemistry (maybe not), Calculus, USH, and Government. I’ll probably be super stressed next year. At my school, you’re not really allowed to choose your schedule because its preset.
@HelloThereHola I’m doing 1400’s - present day in my history class and can help you out!
@ak2018 Why are you doing an all-nighter? I kinda want to so I can study for my math midterm tomorrow, but sleep would probably be beneficial. 
@HolaThereHola If you’re taking these college classes as a way to prepare for the AP exam, then I’d take the second course. It could only help. My school allows 0 AP’s freshman year, 2 sophomore, a lot junior, and pretty much anything as long as you meet the pre-reqs senior year. Why does your school let freshman have one, but not sophomores?
My grades, pre-midterms:
Honors English 10 - 87
American Government - 100
Algebra II - 88.2
Health - 97.4
Honors Biology - 90 (AHHHHH)
Honors Latin II - 94
I had a 90.6 in Algebra II, but then I got a F on the take-home quiz. ;~; I guess I don’t really mind that much though, my midterm would have certainly dropped it to a B anyway.
I’m freaking about about my honors bio grade. My midterm will make the difference between 3.25 or 4.25 to factor into my GPA. Why can’t my school count +'s and -'s? :
Everything else should be fine, I hope. :s
On the scale of 1 to Professor Snape’s death scene, how sad are you about Alan Rickman’s passing? For me, it’s Dobby’s death scene/10 (so very).
@frazzledazzle Thank you! If I decide to persue it, then I know I have help.
@LeopardFire I dont know if I’ll end up taking the AP WH exam. It would be good to take it too in case the college I enroll at doesn’t accept it. Also, it’s not that they don’t allow them to, it’s just that they set all the classes you’re going to take, and the way it worked out (apparently) is having no APs sophomore year but a butt ton Junior and Senior year. Good job on your grades btw! Hopefully you keep that 90 and a. It sucks they dont factor in + or -
Anyone taking any of these classes next year?
AP Calc BC
AP Euro
AP Bio
AP Lit
AP Art History