Students I need you to email me the names of your group members for the final exam project.
AP Crash course videos!
Students, watch these videos to study for your test this Wednesday! Go to: AP Crash Course
Alert! Friday practice tests
You are doing test 33-42
http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/12e/students/ace/index.html
Alert! Student Survey
Students in order to improve our school we want to hear from you. Please go to the following link: https://docs.google.com/a/yumaunion.org/forms/d/1_IP94W2QCTBVWUamT6M-JfaneTUY_MyiUJKfvoG-_L0/viewform.
Alert! AP Review!
Students, here is the link to AP exam that we discussed in class: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/ap-us-history-exam-last-minute-prep. Review! Study!
Alert! Read Sample Essays by Wednesday
Students you need to read the following essays by Wednesday because you will have critical thinking questions over it! Go to: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/sample-essays/. Failure to do so will be detrimental to your grade.
1.Roosevelt and the Revolutionary New Deal
2. Urbanization in the 19th Century U.S.A.
3.Post-Civil War Reconstruction in the South
4. “Duck Soup” and American Beliefs in the 1930s
Then read the next four essay by Friday because you will have critical thinking questions over it. Go to: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/sample-essays/
1. Challenges to American Democracy: Trends and Similarities
2. American Identity and Unity
3. Winners and Losers in the American Revolution
4. The United States: A Date with Manifest Destiny
Then read the last two essay by Monday because you will have an assignment over it. Remember to go to: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/sample-essays/
1.The Transformation of Colonial Virginia (DBQ)
2.Flip-Flopper Thomas Jefferson: From State’s Rights to Federalism
Also over the weekend you need to take the practice test 33-42 by Sunday, May 11th by 12:00 midnight and email me the result to asilivongxay@yumaunion.org. Here is the link: http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/12e/students/ace/index.html. Make sure you email 5 chapters at at time instead of individually. If it is not emailed by May 12, 12:00 midnight, I will not accept it! I will leave my email open to wait for your responses. Make sure you put in subject line: Chapters 33-37, Chapter 38-42. REMEMBER STUDENTS YOU CAN DO THIS PRACTICE THIS ANYTIME YOU WANT BEFORE SUNDAY, MAY 11TH. DON’T WAIT THE LAST MINUTE.
Alert! Friday’s Assignment
Students over the weekend you need to read the first four sample essays at the following link: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/sample-essays/american-foreign-policy-isolationism-to/. You will have questions on Monday about it.
Here’s your assignment for today, May 2, Friday.
1. Read the article, “Agent Orange’s Destruction Continues” and then write essay in response to this prompt:
Describe the effects of Agent Orange,explain why the author is angry by his friend’s death and who do you think is to blame for his friend’s death? Give supporting details from the article. Turn in to the substitute.
Alert! Answers to test
Students go to the following link for the answers to the test we took in class: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/practice-tests/answers-to-practice-multiple-choice-test-1/.
Alert! Bring your AP 5 for 5 for Wednesday
Students, you need to bring your AP 5 for 5 to class on Wednesday! If you don’t have it you can’t do the assignment and you will not be able to make it up! So put your AP 5 for 5 in your backpack!
Alert! Study for the AP Exam
Students, here is a great website (http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/) to study for AP Exam. Study the terms, the court cases and look at the essay examples! If you have a netbook, labtop or phone please make sure you bring it to class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!
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