RESULTS FROM THE LAST FOUR YEARS

STUDENTS GETTING A THREE OR HIGHER ON THE EXAM COMPARED TO THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS.

2006 NHS 68 PERCENT

2006 NATIONAL AVERAGE 48 PERCENT

NHS PLUS TWENTY PERCENT

2007 NHS 67 PERCENT

2007 NATIONAL AVERAGE 50 PERCENT

NHS PLUS 17 PERCENT

2008 NHS 75 PERCENT

2008 NATIONAL AVERAGE 50 PERCENT

NHS PLUS 25 PERCENT

2009 NHS 87 PERCENT
2009 NATIONAL AVERAGE 49 PERCENT

NHS PLUS 38 PERCENT

NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENTERING HALL OF FAME WITH SCORES 4 OR 5
2006 14
2007 7
2008 14
2009 15

TOTAL HALL OF FAMERS IN FOUR YEARS= 50

HALL OF FAME FOR AP US 2009

WELL HERE THEY ARE THE 15 MEMBERS OF AP 2009 WHO QUALIFIED FOR THE AP US HALL OF FAME WITH THEIR SCORES 4 OR 5 ON THE NATIONAL EXAM.


JULIA ARIOLA
KATE BAIRD
JOE CACACCIO
LEAH DANIELS
TAYLOR FERGUSON
DAVID FILLINGIM
PAT GONSALVES
DEAN KENNEDY
AARON LEDWITH
CHAD MCAULIFFE
BRAD MCKEEN
KYLE PACHECO
ERICA PUNDT
JESS QUINTANILHA
OWEN VOELKER

CONGRAGULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RECORD SETTING AP TESTS FOR CLASS OF 2010

THE CLASS OF 2010 REALLY DID OUTDUE THEMSELVES THIS TIME.... THEY WERE ABLE TO HAVE 87 PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVED A THREE OR HIGHER ON THE AP EXAM LAST MAY... THAT BROKE LAST YEAR'S 75 PERCENT RECORD, TRULY AMAZING.. THE NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR A THREE OR HIGHER IS ONLY 50 PERCENT.

SO THE CLASS OF 2010 WAS ABLE TO BEAT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE BY AN INCREDIBLE 37 PERCENT, SIMPLY AWESOME..

CONGRAGULATIONS TO BLOCK G AS WELL FOR BEING THE FIRST CLASS TO HAVE 100 PERCENT RECEIVE A THREE OR HIGHER, THAT SIMPLY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND TO DOUBLE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, AGAIN JUST AWESOME.

TO ALL WHO WERE MEMBERS OF AP 2009 CONGRAGULATIONS ON YOUR RECORD SCORES AND I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PROUDER OF YOUR RESULTS. ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK PAYED OFF ......................

I WILL BE POSTING THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE AP HALL OF FAME SHORTLY FOR ALL OF YOU WHO RECEIVED A 4 OR 5 ON THE EXAM, THAT WAS ALSO RECORD SETTING AS FIFTEEN OF YOU FIT INTO THAT CATEGORY, TOPPING THE PREVIOUS HIGH OF FOURTEEN.

GREAT JOB AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TWO MONTHS TO GO BEFORE THE BIG TEST

WELL WITH HOOP SEASON NOW OVER, I FIGURED NOW WAS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO GET THE BLOG UP AND RUNNING AGAIN. TWO MORE MONTHS TO GO TO THE BIG AP TEST, SO I GUESS YOU COULD SAY WE ARE IN THE HOMESTRETCH, REVIEW ACTIVITIES AND WEBSITES WILL BE POSTED ON EDLINE AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE BIG DATE. MAKE SURE TO CHECK THEM OUT, RIGHT NOW THERE ARE REVIEW NOTECARDS POSTED ON THE LINKS SECTION OF EDLINE WITH MUCH MORE TO BE COMING. REVIEW FOLDERS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL AND FUN-FILLED REVIEW SESSIONS WILL ALSO BE COMING IN APRIL. REVIEW WILL BE CRITICAL BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST CLASS TO HAVE TAKEN THE COURSE IN TWO YEARS, SO AS YOU KNOW ALREADY WE WILL HAVE TO REVIEW A LOT OF LAST YEAR'S MATERIAL AS WELL AS THIS YEAR'S INFO. WE DO HAVE PLENTY OF TIME BECAUSE WE WILL BE DONE WITH ALL MATERIAL AS PROMISED RIGHT AROUND APRIL 1ST OR SO, GIVING US PLENTY OF TIME TO GET YOU READY WITH STRATEGIES TO DO WELL ON THE BIG TEST........................

HELLOS TO ALL AP US ALUMNI HOME FOR BREAK

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND WELCOME HOME TO ALL AP US ALUMNI, IT WAS GOOD TO SEE SOME OF YOU ALTHOUGH BRIEFLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. IT IS ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE MEMBERS OF THE VARIOUS PAST AP CLASSES STOP BY AND LET US KNOW HOW THEY ARE DOING IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD. THEY ALWAYS ASK HOW THIS YEAR'S AP CLASSES ARE DOING AND THEY ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THE NEW RECRUITS CARRYING ON THEIR LEGACY OF TRADITION. I AM ALWAYS EXCITED TO HEAR HOW THEY ARE DOING IN THEIR COLLEGE HISTORY COURSES AND LOVE THE STORIES OF HOW THEY ARE STILL USING THEIR READERS IN COLLEGE TO HELP WITH SURVEY COURSES. PART OF WHAT DRIVES ME AS AN AP TEACHER IS TO UPHOLD THE STANDARDS THEY SET BY PUSHING THE CURRENT CLASSES TO MAINTAIN THAT STANDARD OF ACHIEVEMENT. I KNOW THEY WOULD WANT YOU TO WORK AS HARD AS THEY DID AND HOPEFULLY EXPERIENCE AS MUCH SUCCESS AS THEY DID AS WELL. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT TRADITION IS ALL ABOUT

FRQ'S AND DBQ'S AP US WRITING TO UPHOLD TRADITION

WELL I JUST CORRECTED ANOTHER SET OF FRQ'S, PRETTY AMAZING THAT IT IS NOT EVEN DECEMBER FIRST AND BOTH CLASSES HAVE WRITTEN FOUR FREE RESPONSE ESSAYS AND ONE DOCUMENT BASED ESSAY. THAT'S A TOTAL OF FIVE COMPREHENSIVE ESSAYS ALREADY, AND I MUST SAY THAT THE SCORES ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. YOU ARE REALLY IMPROVING IN ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR WRITING, THAT ONLY BODES WELL AS WE PREPARE FOR THE HIGH STAKES TEST IN MAY. I HONESTLY FEEL THAT YOU WILL BE BETTER PREPARED THAN ANY OTHER AP CLASS I HAVE TAUGHT IN TERMS OF WRITING ESSAYS. A BIG REASON FOR THAT IS THE PRE-AP COURSE AND THE ABILITY NOW TO REALLY GET INTO THE CONTENT MATERIAL AND ADDRESS IT WITH ASSESSMENT THAT CONTAINS EITHER A FRQ OR A DBQ. WE WILL BE TAKING A SHORT REPRIEVE FROM FRQ'S, BUT WILL HAVE ANOTHER DBQ RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAY BREAK. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND REMEMBER ALL THIS PRACTICE WILL PAY OFF ON MAY 8TH. I MEAN HONESTLY DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BE INTIMIDATED BY ANY WRITING ASSESSMENTS ON THE AP TEST AFTER ALL OF THE WRITING YOU HAVE DONE THUS FAR.

A CONTROVERSIAL AP ISSUE

AN INTERESTING QUESTION WAS POSED TO ME THE OTHER NIGHT, A SUPPORTER OF NHS ASKED "WHY DOESN'T THE COLLEGE BOARD PUT AP SCHOOL SCORES IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS RATHER THAN JUST RECOGNIZING AP INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARS WHO HAVE DONE WELL". THIS SUPPORTER WAS WELL AWARE OF HOW WELL THAT MOST OF THE AP CLASSES IN ALL SUBJECTS HAVE DONE RECENTLY AND WANTED TO KNOW WHY THOSE SCORES ARE NOT PUBLICIZED AND COMPARED LIKE MCAS SCORES. WHAT THEY WERE GETTING AT WAS COMPARING SCORES TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS LIKE BISHOP FEEHAN AND COYLE CASSIDY, ETC. PRIVATE SCHOOLS DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE THE MCAS TEST SO THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT COMPARED TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN TERMS OF THAT STANDARDIZED TEST. BUT, BOTH TYPES OF SCHOOLS DO GIVE AP TESTS IN A WIDE ARRAY OF SUBJECTS, THIS SUPPORTER WAS WONDERING WHY THAT INFORMATION WOULD NOT BE PUBLICLY AVAILBLE TO PARENTS ESPECIALLY OF 8TH GRADERS WHO ARE CONSIDERING BOTH TYPES OF SCHOOLS. AN INTERESTING QUESTION WHICH I DID NOT HAVE AN ANSWER FOR BUT KNOWING HOW WELL NHS HAS DONE IN A PLETHORA OF SUBJECTS, A QUESTION WHICH CERTAINLY WOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATING TO NHS. I WONDER IF THE COLLEGE BOARD HAS EVER CONSIDERED IT AND THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING IT A REQUIREMENT, AFTER ALL THESE ARE HIGH STAKE PLACEMENT TESTS FOR SOME OF THE TOP STUDENTS. I AM SURE THERE WOULD BE SOME RESISTANCE EVEN FROM HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS BUT THIS MAY EVEN MOTIVATE STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOLS TO STRIVE FOR FURTHER SUCCESS.......