Here is a helpful Power Point, presented chronologically and divided into periods, which summarizes immigration in USH.
Category: USH: AP Intro and Review
Review: Evolution of Political Parties in USH
Here is a document that shows the evolution of political parties in US History while comparing and contrasting opposing parties.
Review: Presidential Administrations
The key events, acts, etc. of each Presidential administration.
The Presidents in Review.
Here is another version, also good.
Here is a similar Power Point version of the same
And here is the Presidential Rankings table posted in my classroom.
How To Be A Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker
Pinker’s latest book is The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. And it’s great.
Below you’ll learn:
- The two key elements that will improve your writing.
- The biggest mistake we all make — and how to fix it.
- The science behind what makes writing work.
- The most pleasant way to improve your knowledge of grammar.
Stop Multitasking: You're not good at it
“Evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention. They understand and remember less, and they have greater difficulty transferring their learning to new contexts.”
“I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”
“Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources. An example would be folding laundry and listening to the weather report on the radio. That’s fine. But listening to a lecture while texting, or doing homework and being on Facebook—each of these tasks is very demanding, and each of them uses the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex.”
Read the evidence from the Slate. AND STOP IT!
Panics, Crises, and Depressions in USH
Here is a list of significant economic panics, crises, and depressions in US History. It might be wise to review these before the APUSH exam.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases in USH
Here is a list of some of the most significant SC cases in USH. Useful to review these before the AP exam.
2011 APUSH Study Kit
Thanks Mercado. Well Done.
28 Document-Based Questions
Old style. But good.
FRQ Examples, Rubrics
AP USH IDs
98 Pages of terms and definitions complied by my beloved 2009-2010 APUSH class
A list of 1,600 terms from apstudent.com
AP USH Course Description
Here is the 174 page course manual for APUSH. It offers a course description as well as a truncated sample exam. You need not read the whole thing. But peruse the sample exam, pages 140-170. Maybe even take it as a pretest.
Here is the truncated version (2 pages). Please read this carefully and come to class with at least two questions, two comments, and one concern, all written one sheet of paper.