If you had to teach AP CSP unit 5 in one month (approximately 12- 90 minute classes), which lessons would you omit?

[alantos]

Dear colleagues,

Due to snow days this year, we are a bit behind in the AP Computer Science Principles curriculum. As the goal is to finish the “Create Task” by April 30 and I only have 9- 90 minute classes in April with my students (and 8 of them have to be used for the students to work independently on their Create Task), I realize I only have 12 - 90 minute periods to get through what looks like a meaty unit 5. Does anyone have any advice on which Unit 5 lessons I can shorten or omit completely and the students will still be able to perform admirably on the “Create Task”?

Thanks for any suggestions you have.

[jadams1]

There was some discussion about what could be omitted in this post:

Can array lesson in Unit 5 be done without first doing preceding two while loop lessons?

Preparing for the possibility of being tight on time when PT deadlines and AP Exam date roll around. Can I skip straight to Lesson 13 (arrays) after completing chapter 1 of Unit 5? Teacher notes indicate that Create PT can be done after chapter 1 of Unit 5 is completed (U5C1 commentary). Teacher notes also state that “using a linear pass over an array (a loop that starts at the front of a list and does something to or with each element one at a time until it reaches the end) is the most sophis…