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My class is sort of like Spartan Church's. We have four books we have to read like every night and then Mrs. Vance lectures about the basics but goes into detail on events and we discuss things as we go along. Their are only four students in our class but we go off on a tangent a lot and generally have a good time.She likes to ask us about what we've been reading and reads a lot of quotes. She leaves it up to us to take notes or make outlines and we don't have any checks of any kind. It's kinda a sink-or-swim class. We don't do worksheets but we write essays about once a week and we have two part quizzes about every two weeks:one has a combination of chronology, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and cause and effect; the other has usually two essay prompts where we choose one. We do a lot of reading and studying for the class but the class itself is quite enjoyable. I've particularly enjoyed reading outside the American Pageant(trust me Hofstadter is goooooodd stuff) and we like to learn a lot of specific things to help us patch together the big picture. Yesterday we learned the song "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave." and the other day we learned about the "massacre" in Lawrence Kansas killing one person. The funniest thing is how the Mexican American War started. Taylor had actually crossed the Rio Grande, commanded his men to shoot and cause a commotion to attract the Mexicans. When one of Taylor's men was pierced by a stray bullet in their commotion, Taylor and the others dragged him back across the Rio Grande and sent word that "American blood had been spilled on American soil"
Our teacher issued us two books for each of us in the class. They are student companion books that contain tons of documents. My class is panicking because we have to do more work. Nothing but documents, outlines, and questions due every weeks. Plus we have to do an essay every weekend for practice on the AP Exam. So far 5% of the class has managed to scrape a 7. I hope things go good for the rest of you.
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As a APUSH teacher, I try to teach college level material in a way high school kids can understand. Meaning some lectures, outlines, movies, etc. I know some of my colleagues think I'm too easy, but I would rather have my students understand, rather than talk above their heads and give them massive amounts of work.
we get worksheets like none other in my class. my teacher often gives us two or more worksheets a day and expects them to be done for the next class period
For me, monday, tuesday, wednesday would be lectures. thursdays are debates related to our chapter, and friday consisted of the chapter test/exam and either an essay outline or real essay. His class is boring and he grades us solely based on our participation and how much he thinks we know the chapter.
my teacher split the book into 11 units and we lecture everyday until he finishes with the unit. After he is done with the unit, we have a essay test or an ID's test plus an essay test. We also have two weekly chapter quizzes that starts off the class on tuesdays and thursdays. We have to outline every chapter so we have two outlines a week. Although it is boring and gets repeatitive very soon but it does prepare us pretty well for the AP test. The teacher had 100% pass rate and only had 2 students who did not got fives (out of 30ish) on the AP exam last year and they got 4s so i can't complain.
My teacher just lectures us everyday. We get through a chapter a week and have ten question quizzes on Fridays. Occasionally we have tests, either multiple choice or dbqs.
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RockChalk24 wrote:My APUS class is exactly like a college course. All lecture (which is only supposed to be used as a supplement to our outside-of-class notes on the text). Our teacher sometimes gives us Worksheets, but our only grades are essays, DBQs, tests, and the occasional "group notes" project. We have a test about every week or every 10 days, depending on how well we're doing, and they're always over 2 or 3 chapters.
We might just have well have been in the same class!
-we get handouts like crazy. by the end of first semester had a stack of sheets almost as thick as the textbook.
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slowest apush class in the world. we just passed chapter 24 in american pageant last month.
- 90% of the class cant score above 30/80 on mock multiple choice exams.
now that the test is over, MOVIES!!
well, that won't make such a big difference from the rest of the year. it was her first year teaching and ... well .. let's just say we taught ourselves. At least it gave us time to remember nap time from kinder.
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