APUSH

Time for review.

The next four weeks are going to hard and fast–we are going to recover everything we covered in 8 months in one month.

Here are some review resources to check out if you have spare time and want to check out what you do/do not know.

Online Quiz Practice from Gilder Lehrman Institute–Click on link and then click on where it says American History Quizzes. There is a quiz over every major era and will give you the answers when you are done.

Online Quiz Practice from a NY teacher, Ms. Pojer–Over one hundred practice quizzes.

Online Practice Tests from our textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin

Major Vocabulary with Definitions–again, do not simply copy and paste, but it might be easier for you to make sense of it outside of the textbook.

Have a great weekend!

Remember, Ms. Q is concerned with improvement, not immediate perfection.

Also, remember, we have 9 weeks to continue growing and learning together until Winter Break.

So, here’s a quick run down of the upcoming unit:

• The Unit 4 Exam will be November 14 & 15.
• We will cover approximately 133 pages of the textbook.
• We will cover chapters 13-17 from American Pageant.
• We will cover the growing of America westward, Jacksonian Democracy, the Mexican War, societal reform, and the reasons we eventually end up in a Civil War.

We now have a class set of the AMSCO book that will make understanding the units a whole lot simpler–if you would like to check one out–see Ms. Q ASAP before they are all gone!

We will be changing how we do the daily review of each night’s homework AND how we do ID Notes. Each day, I will give you something that looks like this:

Tonight’s Homework (read pgs. 272-280)
CORRUPT BARGAIN
1. What was the corrupt bargain?
2. Why was it referred to as being corrupt?
3. Was the bargain corrupt? Why or why not?
4. Who was involved and how?

“OLD HICKORY”
1. Who is this term referring to? Why?
2. What were this person’s political beliefs?

As you can see, I am guiding your reading a bit more. You will go home, answer the questions (again, keeping in mind that the more RELEVANT information you have the better), and come to class the next day, take the quiz, using the notes (answers to the questions), and then I will ask if anyone has questions about any of the answers.

We will test this out for Unit 4 and see where we go from there.

P.S. Another 5 extra credit points to anyone who posts a comment here by Friday, October 19th. (BTW, you must sign up to comment here, so you need a valid email address)

Several of you have come to me asking if it’s okay to read things on the Internet about what we are studying.

Uh,

YEAH!

One of the many things college students eventually begin to become responsible for (besides their own laundry and housekeeping abilities ) is the need to search out additional material and resources which will help them succeed. If this means finding the cliff notes versions of their textbook, so be it. If this means reading several different sources written at an easier level, so be it. The point is–do you understand it, can you repeat it (in your own words, of course), and can you use it?

So, another resource for you to use:

An online textbook called From Revolution to Reconstruction. Specifically, click this link, Westward Expansion, for the stuff that relates directly to what we are working on this week.

Don’t forget about HippoCampus (the online audio version of our lessons) or the new AMSCO book–I now have a class set, which can be checked out for your use!!!!!

P.S. If you are a student of mine, leave a comment here for 5 extra credit points by October 19, 2007!!!

SATURDAY

SEPTEMBER 8th

Ms. Q’s Room

10am-12pm

We will review note taking, reading strategies, and writing help.

• If you are struggling in class, please attend.

• If you are struggling with the homework, please attend.

• If you need somewhere to catch up or get ahead on homework, please attend.

• If you just miss Ms. Q, please attend!

I am glad you are taking part in the Advanced Placement journey. The word advance means to go forward. Moving forward is life. You are born and you grow up. You learn to recognize faces, words, and emotions. You begin to roll over, crawl, and walk. You make friends, start school, and learn new things. Each of these milestones takes many, many steps and a tremendous amount of practice to get it all right.

You are all in this class (AP US History) because someone, somewhere thought you could do it. It will be a challenge. There will be days you wonder why you decided to stick it out. But, I promise you, at the end of the year, no matter how you do in the class or on the exam, you will have made incredible progress as a student and as a person. As a student, you will know which learning and studying strategies work best for you and how to manage time and commitments. As a person, you will have committed to an extraordinary challenge and you will have completed it.

It’s easy to give up. It’s easy to say, this is too hard and I can’t do it. It is a rare person who admits when something is challenging. It is even more rare to find someone who is willing to undertake such a challenge and try. In the end, that’s all I am asking you to do–T R Y. I am here to help you. I am here to guide you. I am here to see you reach the end of the journey.

You will survive. I promise!