Wednesday, April 20, 2016

April 20th through May 6th

Students,

Below are the tools that you can utilize to study for your AP / STAAR test broken up by Period. I highly recommend focusing on one period a night and working your way backwards through the content (Starting period 9 and going to period 1).

In addition please utilize your notes and assignments from throughout the year to best prepare yourself for the test. We will be beginning writing boot camp beginning on Monday April 25th if you are concerned about writing beyond what we cover in class I will also provide links to instructions for the individual writing portions of the AP Test.

Remember it is not your job to simply pass the AP / STAAR test it is your job to achieve commended, you represent the city and your school in these tests, so study like it.

Link to just STAAR resources
APUSH practice exam

Period 9: 1980 - present (on the STAAR)




Period 8: 1945-1980 (on the STAAR)

Period 7: 1890-1945 (on the STAAR)

Period 6: 1865-1898 (on the STAAR)

Period 5: 1844- 1877 ( partly on the STAAR)


Period 4: 1800-1848


Period 3: 1754-1800

Period 2: 1607-1754

Period 1: 1491-1607


AP Writing Tips

Video for short answer (all you do is answer the question)
Video for Long Essay (be confident you've been writing these essays forever)
Video for DBQ (use the documents to make your argument for you)
Long read PDF on how to write papers (if you are really worried about writing start here & practice)



Tuesday, April 19, 2016

April 19th, 2016

Students,

Today we continued our research project on the final presidents that we cover. please see below if during your research you need a little bit of help

Copy of the project Rubric

Ford / Carter
Reagan / H. W. Bush
Clinton
Bush
Obama

Reminders:

AP 5-6-16

Crash Course #14
Crash Course #15
Crash Course #16
Crash Course #17

EOC Test 5-4-16

Crash Course #35
Crash Course #36
Crash Course #37

If you are feeling industrious in studying for your AP Exam

Link to the Crash Course Channel
Link to an AP review website
AP writing test advice

Monday, April 18, 2016

April 18th, 2016

Students,

Today we began our research project on the final presidents that we cover. please see below if during your research you need a little bit of help

Copy of the project Rubric

Ford / Carter
Reagan / H. W. Bush
Clinton
Bush
Obama

REMINDERS:

If you are feeling industrious in studying for your AP Exam

Link to the Crash Course Channel
Link to an AP review website
AP writing test advice

AP test 5-6-16

Crash Course video #10
Crash Course video #11
Crash Course video #12
Crash Course video #13

EoC test 5-4-16

Crash Course video #32
Crash Course video #33
Crash Course video #34

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

April 12th, 2016

Students,

 we began our discussion on the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. For anyone who was absent I will post a link to the video we as a class watched and discussed below.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1dxdmeaTI

Test Tomorrow, see yesterdays pot for a review.


REMINDERS:

AP Test is coming up on 5-6-2015

Crash Course video #4
Crash Course video #5
Crash Course video # 6

EOC Test is coming up on 5-4-2015

Crash Course Video #26
Crash Course video #27
Crash Course video #28

Or if you are feeling industrious:
Link to the Crash Course Channel
Link to an AP review website
AP writing test advice

Monday, April 11, 2016

April 8th & 11th, 2016

Students,

Please see below for our civil rights Power point.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7czhTMTk5U25jaE0/view?usp=sharing


Reminders:

Cold War Test is Wednesday here is the review:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7TXhrUnpmTzhxRVk/view?usp=sharing

Your tests are approaching rapidly, start reviewing your previous course work at home, AP students remember you have much more to remember!

AP test Crash Course Review Video:

Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link

EoC Crash Course Review Videos:

Episode 22 Link
Episode 23 Link
Episode 24 Link

Or if you are feeling industrious:
Link to the Crash Course Channel
Link to an AP review website
AP writing test advice


Thursday, April 7, 2016

April 7th, 2016

Students,

True to my word we took a break from notes today. We explored the Vietnam war through the voices of those involved in it. Your homework assignment however is to view the crash course video on Vietnam below and respond to the following prompt right here on the blog.


Prompt: To what extent was the course of the Vietnam war decided by the everyday American as opposed to politicians?



PPT we did not do if you want to view it:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7dXZEa01wWDdZOE0/view?usp=sharing


Video we actually watched in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgtQIEZym2w

Monday, April 4, 2016

April 4th, 2016

Students,

Today we started our Cornell marathon week by examining life of Americans during the 1950's. Please see below for the power point to finish up what we didn't get to during class.

PPT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7QWtmTEhjam5iUnc/view?usp=sharing