Getting Started
Pick up your AP Biology Textbook
You should have gotten the announcement to pick up your AP Biology textbook at the Carlmont Library the week after graduation 6/10 - 6/14. Their summer hours are 8:30am - 12:30pm. Please remember to bring your student ID card!
Questions about this? Please contact Ms. Ferme (at aferme@seq.org) to coordinate an alternate time.
Instructions to pick up your AP Bio summer assignment during Review Week (5/28 - 5/31 between 9am - 3:50pm) or Finals Week (6/3-6/6 between 8:45am - 1:30pm).
Please stop by the outside of room S-10 to pick up your summer assignments! You'll be picking up some papers and plants :)
In case you misplace the papers:
Here is a digital copy of your Summer Plant Assignment
Here is a digital copy of the optional Chapters to work through before the first week of school:
Chapter 1 (Intro: Foundations of Bio)
Chapter 2 (Chemical Context of Life) &
Chapter 3 (Carbon and Life)
I will provide you with note guides for each chapter we go through, but you're welcome to take written notes on your own if you prefer. Click on the chapters above to print and/or write out my notes guides. ALL NOTES must be hand-written!
Materials list and instructions to set-up your notebook
Be sure to have your materials ready to go for the first day of class!
Link to the AP Biology GoogleForm Survey for the 2024-25 school year.
Recommended (not required): Buy an AP Exam Test Prep book published 2013 or later! (books prior to 2013 will have different exam format, different types of essay questions, and outdated information)