APUSH

Review PPTS

Ms. Q — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:06:11 +0000

Here are some review PPTs for the last few units. Since we went through these so quickly in class, these are more valuable at this moment. I will be uploading the rest in the days to come.

C&B

FRQ Practice

Ms. Q — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:50:47 +0000

Here is a list of previously asked FRQ’s. This is to give you an idea of what types of questions are asked and what kind of information you might need to know. Remember–we CANNOT predict what the topics will be, but you will have to choose 2 topics from 4 questions from different time periods.

FRQ Free Response

This is Cool

Ms. Q — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:41:57 +0000

This is a cool new tool:

Visual Search

Review Games

Ms. Q — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:59:01 +0000

These are the games we have played for each unit exam. I will be working on one for the final unit (7) since we didn’t play one in class.

jeopardy_unit_6.ppt
Semester Final Jeopardy

Primary Sources

Ms. Q — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:00:14 +0000

Remember–primary (1st)–a quote from the Declaration of Independence is a primary source. Your textbooks written paragraph about the Declaration of Independence is a secondary source. You want PRIMARY SOURCES only!

Also, review old DBQs you have taken–your documents (primary sources) should look just like those do. When you give the source information you are giving the author/speaker/creator, book/magazine/newspaper/speech/etc, date. (You are NOT giving any website information–websites did NOT exist in your time periods to be used as primary source material!!!!)

Search words to try: APUSH primary sources; APUSH dbq documents; APUS history primary sources; 1776 independence primary source (this works for any time period/topic).

Here are some websites to help in the search:

http://www.historyteacher.net/APUSH-Course/APUSH_Weblinks-MainPage.htm

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/primary.html

http://www.tdhah.com/site_files/Teacher_Resources/teacher_resources.php

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/tblibrary.htm

http://sun.menloschool.org/~chanson/apush/docs_dox/index.html

Review Resources

Ms. Q — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:33:22 +0000

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!

Fundraising Update!

Ms. Q — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:03:41 +0000

Checking on Thursday game–if we have to pay $5 to get into the game, then we might as well just save our money (for the TRIP) and sell the candy bars somewhere else! I will let you know as soon as I find out.

THURSDAY morning meeting: 7:45!

Wednesday: Someone needs to remember to call Buffalo Wild Wings tomorrow and reserve April 23rd for the fundraiser.

Spring Break–nothing planned, but you MUST GO OUT AND FIND SPONSORS and DONATIONS!

Tuesday April 8th–Selling @ soccer game: 5:30 pm–bring in selling stuff this week and that week!

LEARN-A-THON $$ due Friday!!! This FRIDAY!

Saturday Meeting

Ms. Q — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:42:31 +0000

Remember–tomorrow is a Saturday FUND RAISING meeting!

9:30 am-whenever before 1:00 pm!

Ms. Q’s Room

Trip Update

Ms. Q — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:21:51 +0000

There is something wonky going on with the blog and I wasn’t able to save this update to the trip page. I will update it when I get a chance, but here is an update for today.

2/27/08 Update

Jamestown is definitely a possibility. The students who were at the meeting (uh, why wasn’t EVERYONE at the meeting???) decided to go for the Jamestown option and here’s why:

for $30 additional per person

We lose a night in Boston, but still see everything in Boston, including the Hocus Pocus walk through Salem!
We will get a 1 1/2 hour tour of Philadelphia, skip the Constitution Center (which is a museum), and not spend the night in Philadelphia.
Spend 2 nights in Williamsburg and get to do and see all that Williamsburg and Jamestown have to offer. Williamsburg is a working colonial village–it looks and works like it did in the 1700s. Go to the website for Colonial Williamsburg to see what’s in store for us: http://www.history.org/
Jamestown can be found here: http://www.historicjamestowne.org/visit/

This makes the trip the original price of $1,768/person.

Are you ready to enroll? Do you have the application filled out? Are you/your parents simply waiting for payday?

If so, you can still qualify for the $50 off the total package price AND receive the FREE T-SHIRT by enrolling by the end of February. How, you ask?

Bring in your completed enrollment application, with the date your parents plan on making the first $150 payment and I can get you enrolled. Enrolling reserves your spot on the trip AND gets you the FREE T-SHIRT.

What are you waiting for?

Next fund raising meeting will be this Saturday, March 1st @ 9:30AM in my room.

New Deal Project Websites

Ms. Q — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:44:33 +0000

The list of resources below is just a starting point. To search for images on your own:

You can search for general images: for example go to google and type in CCC images OR civilian conservation corps images to see what shows up.You
You can search for specific images: for example if you found out that the Work’s Progress Administration made posters for the national parks you could go to google and type in WPA national parks OR WPA posters national parks.
You can find historical databases and conduct searches there: for example go to google and type in historical image database. You will get a list of historical databases that specialize in images. Go to some and do the exact same searches as I mentioned above. This will probably help you find the most relevant images!

New Deal Network Photo Gallery

FDR Library & Museum Photo Gallery

Historical Gallery of New Deal

Great Depression Photos

WPA specific info