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 Mar 1 2011, 03:12 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 38 Joined: 7-April 10 From: Texas Member No.: 572  |
 Calculus is back! They took it out for the year I was in calculus and then put it back when I'm graduating. Thanks a lot, USAD.
-------------------- Tricia Divita
Honors - Rockwall High School 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 MIT Class of 2015 |
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Apr 15 2012, 01:01 AM
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Chief Duckling Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 802 Joined: 27-March 12 Member No.: 232,899 |
QUOTE (PrussianBlue @ Feb 7 2011, 11:05 AM)  Greetings to all Decathletes: It is my pleasure to announce the Academic Decathlon curricular theme for the 2011-2012 season. The full subject area outlines will also be published in the Academic Decathlon® Study Guide, which will begin shipping on May 15, 2011. The curricular theme for 2011–2012 will be: The Soviet Union Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas. • SUPER QUIZ: The Super Quiz™ will focus on the topic of the Cold War with an emphasis on political conflict, military tension, and proxy wars. • LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novel, four interviews, one short story, and two poems. The featured novel will be Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. • ART: The art curriculum will cover art fundamentals and will focus on socialist realism and Soviet nonconformist art during the Cold War. • MUSIC: The music curriculum will cover basic elements of music theory and will focus on Soviet music of the 1920s. • SCIENCE: The science curriculum will focus on the topic of space exploration and will include a case study on the Soyuz programme. • ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on socialism and the Cold War. • MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. I just stumbled upon this and wondered why the smurf you guys were having this year's topic last year...lol. -------------------- QUOTE I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. -Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
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Apr 15 2012, 01:10 AM
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 One Vision, One Purpose Group: Red Herrings Posts: 462 Joined: 16-April 10 From: Mountain Pointe, Arizona Member No.: 579 |
QUOTE (the_crazy_honors @ Apr 14 2012, 06:01 PM) QUOTE (PrussianBlue @ Feb 7 2011, 11:05 AM) Greetings to all Decathletes: It is my pleasure to announce the Academic Decathlon curricular theme for the 2011-2012 season. The full subject area outlines will also be published in the Academic Decathlon® Study Guide, which will begin shipping on May 15, 2011. The curricular theme for 2011–2012 will be: The Soviet Union Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas. • SUPER QUIZ: The Super Quiz™ will focus on the topic of the Cold War with an emphasis on political conflict, military tension, and proxy wars. • LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novel, four interviews, one short story, and two poems. The featured novel will be Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. • ART: The art curriculum will cover art fundamentals and will focus on socialist realism and Soviet nonconformist art during the Cold War. • MUSIC: The music curriculum will cover basic elements of music theory and will focus on Soviet music of the 1920s. • SCIENCE: The science curriculum will focus on the topic of space exploration and will include a case study on the Soyuz programme. • ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on socialism and the Cold War. • MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. I just stumbled upon this and wondered why the smurf you guys were having this year's topic last year...lol. Lucky prediction. |
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Apr 15 2012, 01:28 AM
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Chief Duckling Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 802 Joined: 27-March 12 Member No.: 232,899 |
QUOTE (Herohito @ Apr 14 2012, 08:10 PM) QUOTE (the_crazy_honors @ Apr 14 2012, 06:01 PM) QUOTE (PrussianBlue @ Feb 7 2011, 11:05 AM) Greetings to all Decathletes: It is my pleasure to announce the Academic Decathlon curricular theme for the 2011-2012 season. The full subject area outlines will also be published in the Academic Decathlon® Study Guide, which will begin shipping on May 15, 2011. The curricular theme for 2011–2012 will be: The Soviet Union Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas. • SUPER QUIZ: The Super Quiz™ will focus on the topic of the Cold War with an emphasis on political conflict, military tension, and proxy wars. • LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novel, four interviews, one short story, and two poems. The featured novel will be Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. • ART: The art curriculum will cover art fundamentals and will focus on socialist realism and Soviet nonconformist art during the Cold War. • MUSIC: The music curriculum will cover basic elements of music theory and will focus on Soviet music of the 1920s. • SCIENCE: The science curriculum will focus on the topic of space exploration and will include a case study on the Soyuz programme. • ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on socialism and the Cold War. • MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. I just stumbled upon this and wondered why the smurf you guys were having this year's topic last year...lol. Lucky prediction. Apparently so. I hope we really do get socialist realism for art. But music should really be a broad representation of Russia's centuries upon centuries of great music. Also, Super Quiz indeed. 
-------------------- QUOTE I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. -Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
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May 1 2012, 01:12 PM
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Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 23 Joined: 6-May 11 From: North Richland Hills, TX Member No.: 41,595 |
"The full subject area outlines will be posted on USAD’s website on May 1 and will also be published in the Academic Decathlon® Study Guide, which will begin shipping on May 15."
How bout dem outlines? -------------------- Ad astra per alas porci,
Chris Redmon Academic Decathlon Coach Richland HS Ac Dec Alum '03 - '04 |
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May 1 2012, 02:05 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Soylent Greens Posts: 134 Joined: 10-April 11 Member No.: 28,123 |
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May 1 2012, 02:18 PM
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Member Group: Coach Class Posts: 23 Joined: 6-May 11 From: North Richland Hills, TX Member No.: 41,595 |
Got it. Thanks.
-------------------- Ad astra per alas porci,
Chris Redmon Academic Decathlon Coach Richland HS Ac Dec Alum '03 - '04 |
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May 1 2012, 04:53 PM
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 Kantsler Bol'shoj Slavyanofil'stva Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 3,237 Joined: 2-May 09 From: Tempe, AZ Member No.: 105 |
STAGECRAFT!
AND AUTUMN! And oh man are they going into detail with Social Science. Also, let the "rocket science" jokes BEGIN! This post has been edited by Widget!: May 1 2012, 04:58 PM -------------------- QUOTE (overly_critical_man @ Sep 19 2011, 11:04 AM) QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Sep 19 2011, 08:59 AM) Also, why are there serious posts in here when we could be talking about ass and bacon? I often lie awake in bed at night, wondering this to myself. |
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