Work two lab investigations which demonstrate Newton's law of inertia and the relationship between distance and time during linear movement down an incline plane. The eventual result will be to determine a formula for free fall. lab investigations 7 and 11.

Write a typical chemical equation which can be used to indicate the production of a rocket fuel. Based on the reactants and products , formulate a hypothesis regarding why this reaction will act as a rocket fuel. Examine a few typical chemical equations and elicit the law of conservation of mass. Use an oxidation reaction equation as a sample for balancing atoms and proving the law of conservation of mass. Instruct how to balance difficult diatomic equations using a particular technique.

Joshua worked on the AP classroom platform during today's session by listening to the prologue videos and the videos on the German family and children. He is focusing on mastering the skill of recognizing the literal meaning of the text in these videos.

Today we studied how to locate and to define Narrative Voice. I placed the definition and elements of narrative voice on the board noting the importance of the narrator's background and the narrator's distance (physical or in time) from the related story . We then parsed the first two chapters of Eliot's Silas Marner practicing how to identify the narrative voice. I pointed out how the narrator is relating the story of Silas Marner that took place some years earlier but focused on the narrator's physical proximity to the story's location. In other words, we explored how the narrator is a now resident of the town or is physically close to the story's locale, but separated not only by time but also by her educational background.By studying tone ,we were able to discern that the narrator's apparent criticism of the former society of her locale remains restrained or tempered because she now resides in the area and understands the people she is describing in the novel.

Joshua worked independently on his online English work.

Elicit a definition for a chemical reaction which best describes a meaning. Using sodium chloride as an example, determine what changes can occur in the compound if decomposed by electrolysis. Determine the products formed and describe their physical state of matter. Determine how a product would form from an aqueous solution of sodium chloride, if reacted upon with silver nitrate.
Discuss how the formula of a compound will exhibit as much information as possible based on the formula. Discuss a hypothesis which would explain why potassium perchlorarate mixed with carbon could make a good fuel for a rocket.

We first reviewed a glossary of AP terms defining literary techniques and discussed how AP essays need to focus on how these techniques elucidate various literary elements such as character, setting, and perspective. I further reviewed the elements of characterization and setting and continued instruction on narrator and character perspective noting how we can discern perspective based on a character's history or distance from the narrative. We then explored James Joyce's "Araby". I explained how the setting's imagery of light and dark informs the theme of shattered youthful illusions. Joshua will be redrafting his paragraph on the function of setting in "Araby" tonight.

We will complete our review of limits by looking at the significance of the Mean Value Theorem. It tells us that continuous functions have smooth curves. This will lead into the definition of the derivative of a function as the limit of the difference quotient. We will look at a specific example if time allows.

Discuss how motion is relative to a stationary object as well as one moving and at rest. Discuss how speed is relative to the Earth's surface movement. Elicit a formula to determine speed. Discuss instantaneous speed and average speed. Define velocity, compare it to speed, and demonstrate the definition of velocity.

Work out 2 problems solving for the rate of dispersion of different gases. Discuss the answers and how the rate is calculated and the mass density. Introduce chemical and physical properties and change. Example with zinc and hydrochloric acid. Discuss the physical changes occurring on each substance as well as the chemical changes occurring. Introduce the factors which affect the chemical changes occurring.