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Okay, please make it to first meeting April 11th! It will be a fun day. And it will be short, hopefully?

Ermmm who has tutoring? on Monday and Wednesday?

Topic for 2011-2012!

Hmm... nothing much new this week...

Breaking News: Topic has been released.

Age of Imperialism! European stuff and stuff.

CURRICULAR THEME AND TOPICS 2011–2012 Curricular Theme and Topics We are excited to announce that the curricular theme for 2011–2012 will be The Age of Empire. Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas. SUPER QUIZ: The Super Quiz™ topic will be The Age of Imperialism: The Making of a European Global Order. TheSuper Quiz Resource Guide will include readings on such topics as mercantile empires, the Atlantic economy, motives for imperialism, the role of technology in the age of imperialism, New Imperialism, tactics of colonial rule, and decolonization and postcolonial immigration. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novella, three poems, and two short stories. The featured novella will beHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. ART: The art curriculum will cover art fundamentals and will focus on art and imperial power. MUSIC: The music curriculum will cover basic elements of music theory and will focus on music of the Romantic era. SCIENCE: The science curriculum will present an introduction to physical science and will include discussions of significant scientific advances made during the nineteenth century. ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on the economics of imperialism. MATHEMATICS The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in general mathematics and geometry and will include a brief introduction to differential calculus.

Hmm... physical science... does that mean physics?

Book: Heart of Darkness by John Conrad

Romantic Era music

Topic outlines come out May 1st.

^.^ Teddy

Okay, new thing for me is to update blogs on wednesdays.

Guys, I am deeply saddened.

Why aren't you guys asking about the blog or more importantly, me updating the blog?

Don't I matter to you guys? ):

Just kidding, alright.

So, although idle as a blogger, I have been hard at work, trying to prepare for next year.

I am currently creating a day by day schedule for next year. Yep, and I

am planning to have a fun first day, so come on April 11th. Don't worry, we'll just slightly start up, get to know each other, and then I will let you guys go because I know everyone wants to study for AP exams. We are going to start writing speeches in that week, so prepare! Think of subjects.

I am also currently working on a short intro to economics. I need one or two volunteers to help me!

Please tell me by March 16th!

Volunteers

1. ______________
2. ______________

Oh, and quick note to self:

Leo hasn't claimed his jacket.

Aaron's jacket needs mending

I owe John $2.

Tru needs his jacket.

Competition was fun BTW. And I have pictures.

Yes, I picked this picture because I wanted to feel awesome. Oh, the power of the blogger.

Okay, and these are the competitors. Look how they are just overcome with JOY!

Nice group picture with Mr. Olivos!

Anthony, what were you doing?

job update

okay so job update.
secretaries: take role
and you guys are now in charge of contacting people when president says so. so I need to get you the roster. I'll put more later...

To do for next year:
Make a print out for each section
Look for or Make Videos on ______
Make the BOARD
Food/ Water

Piles

Sorry, this is more of a note to self

-Teddy

Stomach ache -UGHHHHH!!!

Okay, so competition was decent. Maybe we might be better than last year.
Success, we had 8 people show up, an improvement from last year's 7!

It was fun, we played NINJA and STOMACH-ACHE UGHHH!
Good job to those who went! (: Hopefully it was enjoyable! How was the In N Out?

For me, my impromptu topic was John Goddard made a list of 127 exciting and adventurous things to do. It was alright.

And for my speech, I talked about controlling children. I will record it maybe, and I'll keep it for next year.

Interview was alright. They asked me, "Who do you know that interests you the most?", "What has Academic Decathlon done for you?", "Is there anything else you would like the tell me about yourself?"

Comment on the competition PLOCKS. SO that we can tell competitors next year.

These people still need to play for their jackets:
John Hoac
Leo Chen
Tru To
Kevin Gip

I love you all,
-Teddy

okay two days till competition

Okay so two days until competition. sorry haven't really been updating much. I will get back to doing this.

Jackets are in. Pick it up at Olvios'. PAY FIRST! Ty!

Wish us luck!

-Teddy

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

For the first day concerning Acadec Social

UPDATE: SOCIAL CANCELLED SORRY (12/20/10)

Secretaries, I need you to call me. 242 5988.

We need to work together to plan one, because I can't do it alone. ):

__________________________________________________________________________

Okay, so this is what's planned.

Who: Acadec Members
What: Social/Study Power!
When: TBA, maybe Tuesday?
Where: Betty's House?
Why: because I love you guys and I need to see you over winter break
How: IDK

Social/ Study session
Before the social/study session:
Prepare your presentation on your assigned pages. And then go on demidec.com and look at the focused quiz and make sure you can answer the important ones. You decide what's important, okay?
I don't want all 20 questions, so just go with maybe 7 or 8 important ones okay?

On the day of, you present, and after we finish, we play jeapardy for PRIZES! :) okay? so study!

And if we might not finish, but I plan for that to be just 2-3 hours, okay?

Social: at Betty's house. Maybe we can watch a movie! I want to play a few ice breakers, we never played before. Like the name game! we should have done it a long time ago :O....
but I gotta make sure with Bettys!