Summer Assignment

AP Biology Summer Assignment

1. Receive summer assignment and have a textbook issued to you.

2. Read Chapters 45, 46, 47, and 48 in Starr & Taggart’s "Biology - The Unity and Diversity of Life",   11^th Edition. Take accurate and complete notes from your reading. The notes can be hand-written or typed. Be sure to note all the bold type words and do not ignore captions to diagrams, charts and pictures. You will take a reading quiz on each of these chapters the first week of school. You will be able to use your notes for the quizzes.

3. You have been given an AP Biology past-exam essay question. Using your textbook and any other resources you choose, research the information asked for and answer the question. The answer should be in the form of an essay, except with no introduction, conclusion, or outline. The essay must be typed and double-spaced. You may include graphs, tables, or other graphic representations of data, as long as your essay explains the information you write about.

4. Use the following website to access the internet assignment that is part of your summer assignment. Click on the link below to access the site. From the drop-down menu, choose Chapter 46. Then select Internet Exercises (found on the left side of the page). The assignment is entitled, "Comparing Demographic Data". It concerns population demographic data from several countries. Using the data, answer the five questions given with this exercise. If you have trouble finding this assignment, let me know right away so we can fix the problem. Don’t wait until the night before classes start. This assignment uses the ninth edition of the textbook.

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5. Our group email is  phs-ap-biology@googlegroups.com

You can email me at Diana.Latta@gmail.com as well.
My phone number is 904-692-4949.   Please, do not call after 9:00 PM!

Contact me if you have problems or questions.

I will be E-mailing you several times over the summer to see how you are doing. Please don’t hesitate to call or email me with any questions or problems. Don’t wait until the last minute to start this assignment.