How do you study?

You should realise that the APUSH class is class, and test, are graded on about 50% outside resources. The APUSH test is also geared towards primary source document. Besides that you may want to consider the view point of your teacher and what s/he puts more emphasis onj within the Bailey book.

You way want to try SQ3R. Its in this list of links (towards the bottom). Just browse through until you find it (its clearly labeled).

http://www.course-notes.org/forum/showthread.php?t=800

Ok, I just posted this huge thing about study habits. Sorry, but I'm not going to retype it at 3:00 in the morning. To read mine, look under U.S. History, then General Discussion, then study strategies.

Good Luck!

Well, I don't really notice that I'm studying. In our class, we have to read the chapter as often as possible - then we assess it, and discuss what we didn't understand in class. In order to participate in the lecture, we have to read it, so I guess that kind of helps out in studying.

Umm...we also write up outlines of the chapters. I find it easier to remember things if I type/write up my outline while I'm reading the chapter. I don't know. I don't really have to study much, just listen in class and think up other examples. My friend listens to the history lessons and connects them to things she likes, like Harry Potter or Star Wars. I don't really know how she does it, but hey, it works. =D

What I do for my Government I and II classes is look at the overviews for the whole chapter and ask at least two basic questions about what is being discussed.

For example: Chapter 1- Politics in America: What are politics? How does it work? I then try to answer these questions by using as many of the new words introduced as possible, while at the same time giving it an off-the-wall twist. This way you not only understand the basic concepts if the chapter, but you also will be able to remember the new words and descriptions by your own weird word associations.

I had quiz coming up and the teacher clued us in the we will have to define all of the different "isms". Now to me they all seem the same so I read the definitions and then rewrote them in my own words, trying to make then each as different as possible while including the key words use in the description (underlined below).

Marxism- “Capitalists oppress workers. And I think that a worldwide revolution and a classless society are inevitable. Capitalists are BAD… yeah… so Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains… so there!...yeah, hear that Vladimir?”
Leninism- “Yeah, Marx is right…capitalist countries always want war, (sniffle) so to have a successful Revolution we need small, hard-core professional revolutionaries combined into a centralized totalitarianism..then we’ll show them.” Too bad his views on capitalism were extreme and erroneous. (His ideas should be flushed.)

Extremism- Rejection of democratic politics and the assertation of the supremecy of the “people” over laws, institution, and individual rights. “We’re people so so we don’t need to follow any rules. That’s right, NOBODY TELLS US WHAT TO DO!.”

It may seem kind of immature and dumb (especially if your not creative, like me), but hey, it'll help keep the facts stuck in your brain. Give it a try.

What do you think?

Splintered_Light;15576 wrote:What I do for my Government I and II classes is look at the overviews for the whole chapter and ask at least two basic questions about what is being discussed.

For example: Chapter 1- Politics in America: What are politics? How does it work? I then try to answer these questions by using as many of the new words introduced as possible, while at the same time giving it an off-the-wall twist. This way you not only understand the basic concepts if the chapter, but you also will be able to remember the new words and descriptions by your own weird word associations.

I had quiz coming up and the teacher clued us in the we will have to define all of the different "isms". Now to me they all seem the same so I read the definitions and then rewrote them in my own words, trying to make then each as different as possible while including the key words use in the description (underlined below).

Marxism- “Capitalists oppress workers. And I think that a worldwide revolution and a classless society are inevitable. Capitalists are BAD… yeah… so Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains… so there!...yeah, hear that Vladimir?”
Leninism- “Yeah, Marx is right…capitalist countries always want war, (sniffle) so to have a successful Revolution we need small, hard-core professional revolutionaries combined into a centralized totalitarianism..then we’ll show them.” Too bad his views on capitalism were extreme and erroneous. (His ideas should be flushed.)

Extremism- Rejection of democratic politics and the assertation of the supremecy of the “people” over laws, institution, and individual rights. “We’re people so so we don’t need to follow any rules. That’s right, NOBODY TELLS US WHAT TO DO!.”

It may seem kind of immature and dumb (especially if your not creative, like me), but hey, it'll help keep the facts stuck in your brain. Give it a try.

What do you think?

I think that's awesome way to study! :D

Since I'm just borrowing my history book from school and can't highlight it, I just state whatever the main idea of the paragraph was in my own words on a sticky note and do that for each chapter. When I'm through the whole chapter I take notes on it. I think if you do that and then fill out the packet you're given and study from both of those you will have a better understanding of what you are learning and will do better on tests :)

try taking notes on the reading writing helps recall things