What are AP Classes Up to Now?

AP finals and testing has finally come to a close. With only four weeks left of school, it has some people wondering about AP classes, and what they are going to spend those last weeks doing.

"After the AP tests, classes kind of wind down, and you work towards making your grade as good as they can be for your final transcript," said senior Juliana Filipanko, who is taking several AP classes. "What we have left to do is really, some teachers assign projects, or little assignment to bring up our grades."

The classes are doing fun projects that they couldn't do during the school year since they were prepping for the AP tests.

Marlene Miranda, AP Spanish teacher, is doing three final projects with her classes.

"It's all the things I've been wanting to do with my Spanish classes but just don't have time for. Right now they're doing a children's book, and then...they're going to make a travel brochure and give that presentation, and the last one, they're going to make a tele novella... A Spanish soap opera," said Miranda, "they're super scandalous."

William Catero's AP Literature and English classes are going to finish senior presentations and some books.

"We are reading Canterbury Tales, we also will be reading The Little Prince...but most of the time being spent is having the students present their senior projects," said Catero.

Jessie Polivka AP Environmental Science and AP Biology teacher has some projects planned for her science classes.

Polivka said, "We get to do some Biotechnology labs that we didn't have time for during the year...in AP Environmental Science we are making solar ovens and also we are going to do a recycled fashion show."

Polivka has many things planned but her main goal is to "do some projects that relate to the class, but also excite the kids."

China Harvey's AP U.S. History classes will be creating a U.S. history museum for student's and staff to come visit.

"For their final project their building a museum of American History so they have to pick a topic that their interested in and make a display and in addition to the physical display, there also going to make a virtual display component," said Ms. Harvey.

Through an app called Arasma students are going to have a virtual aspect describing their displays that can be seen through an iPad. Students can record their voices, or add a video that plays on the app if one hovers it over the display.

Lisa Wetner's AP Human Geography classes have been watching several movies that relate to the material they have gone over all year, including Blood Diamond and Lion and are going on a field trip to San Francisco on May 30th.

The purpose of the field trip is to "apply court knowledge to the field...and then after the field trip we're taking the rest of the time to create a Power Point presentations based off our data and findings from the field trip," said sophomore Alli Carrol over text.

Other AP classes are spending their free time outside. For example, Carl Ball's AP Calculus classes are doing a Bocce ball tournament on the softball field.

Senior Kaylena Principe who took four APs this year, like many of her peers, couldn't be more happy to be finished with testing. "I had my AP Calculus test, and then I went straight to my AP French test, it was horrific, but I'm really happy now that I'm done," she said.

Now all the AP students like Principe get to have some well deserved fun after all the hard work they put into their classes over the year.