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 Email me if you have any questions. ckortemeier@carson.k12.nv.us

Welcome to AP Chemistry. I am very pleased to be your teacher, and so proud you have chosen to begin your college career while still in High School.

Instructor:      Curtis P. Kortemeier
                     Room 209
                     283-1753
Office hours:   7:00 - 7:30 daily
                     2:30 - 3:30 Monday, Friday
                     Other times by appointment

Extended laboratory hours: 2:00 to 4:00 pm Friday afternoons. It may be necessary to finish lab procedures, mass dried filtrates etc. outside of normal class hours. This may be especially true on weeks that our class only meets for two blocks.

Email: ckortemeier@carson.k12.nv.us

Required Text: Chemistry  Steven S Zumdahl and Susan A Zumdahl. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston 7th edition.

New Required Text: Chemistry The Central Science: Theodore L Brown, H Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, and Patrick Woodward.  Pearson Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, 11th edition. 

Supplemental Text: Purchase of a supplement text such as: Princeton Review, Cliff Notes, Fast Track to a 5, or other reputable review guide is strongly recommended. AP* Chemistry: Edward Waterman. Pearson Education. Is the product that is keyed to our new textbook. It may be possible to order this book through Barnes and Noble, or Amazon.com or other bookseller.

Summer assignment (follow this link if you've lost your handout)

Follow the navigation links in the left margin for each quarter's syllabus.

Through the course of the year we will be working on 7 curricular requirements. You will see each weeks activities keyed to these requirements: