What's New |
AP World History
Classroom Blog |
The start of October is upon us - can you believe it?!As we move into October, please be on the lookout for information regarding registration for the AP Exam. This will be sent in a physical letter home as well as sent via Schoology and Remind. Let's look ahead at this week:Monday: Today we are going to use the class period to Peer Review each other's essays. Peer Reviewing is a helpful way to see how to best write an essay and learn our rubric's ins and outs.
Tuesday: Today we are going to begin our first Group Project and organize our groups. The rest of the period afterward will be for your groups to begin organizing information and tasks.
Wednesday/Thursday: Classes will get a project work day to work with their groups.
Friday: Students will get part of the period to work in their groups to prepare for their presentations. After about 15 minutes, presentations for each group will begin. As students present, audience members should be taking notes on their charts!
Now that we have finished Unit 1, let's put some of its information to some writing practice!
This week we are going to prep and write a full DBQ Essay. Remember, that all essays are considered major grades unless told otherwise. Since we are preparing all week together for it, this will be a major grade.
In order to make sure you have some extra help with your questions, we will have a Schoology Conference on Thursday night using the same time slots. This time, though, you will be able to choose which time you attend by joining the group corresponding. In order to make sure we are not overloading one slot over the others, please take the survey below so we can estimate numbers!
Now let's look at this week more in-depth:
Monday: Today's class period will cover the Rubric and skills required for a DBQ Essay, first. We'll start by discussing where this fits in the scheme of our AP Exam as a whole, and then start to look at the essay we'll be writing this week.
Tuesday: Today we are going to review methods for document analysis in order to use them for arguments in our DBQ Essay. The two skills in particular we'll practice with are Contextualization and Point-of-View.
Wednesday: There are TWO skills that are usually more tricky for students to complete for each document in a DBQ - contextualization and point-of-view. We're going to look at perfecting these before grouping our documents and beginning our outline.
Thursday: Now that the outline has been set, you will get a majority of the period to make sure it is finished to your liking. At the start of the period we will set our "15 Minute Reading Period". You will get your set of documents for 15 minutes to create your annotations and notes before writing on Friday - after the 15 minutes, you will turn this in and get it back on Friday as you write.
Friday: It's writing day! Come right in and grab lined paper from the front of the room and have a PEN - blue or black to write with! You will have the entire period to construct and complete your essay. It will be turned in at the end of the period. YEP! First test of the year is coming up this week!Unit 1 covers all of the regions we have studied thus far. Here are some things you might consider looking over:
Tutoring Opportunities!In-person reviews with me will be:
This encourages you to put off asking your questions and your studying. Come to these times instead and get your questions answered sooner! Schoology Conferences!Schoology has this AMAZING tool called "Conferences" where students can login and virtually join an online web conference (audio or video). This conference works like a Skype session and we will look at how to login together in class on Tuesday. Students need to vote on a time through Schoology that works best for them on Wednesday evening so that classes can be sorted into a time slot. Know already you are busy on Wednesday evening? These sessions can be recorded where you can watch them afterwards! Here we go. Let's look at this week.Monday: Today we are going to recap and assess our understanding of our back-half of Unit 1 - SE Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe. We'll play a quick review game and then you'll complete an assessment of 12 questions. We will go over these Tuesday!
Tuesday: First we review our progress on the assessment, then you and I are going to look at comparing the regions we've studied as a practice of review. We'll mainly do this through writing out our evidence through AP-Style Short Answer Questions (SAQs). Wednesday: Today is officially test review day - Quizlet Live and GimKit will be on the agenda! Later this evening is our conferences. Be on the lookout for our schedule and your class' time. Thursday: Test Day! We use an online testing platform so make sure you have your laptop and charger with you! Friday: After looking at our test performance, we're going to go through our Reteach/Retest process. Let's start with some big reminders:Your Unit 1 Test is next week Thursday, September 19th! You will get your Test Review in class on Friday and will have the next week to start studying. Tutoring that is specific to the Test will be on the following days:
We will also be using Schoology's Conferences tool on Wednesday night. More information coming on this next week but keep Wednesday night open. :-) Time to look ahead at this week:Monday: Classes will spend a majority of the period reviewing their performance on the China/Islam Quiz from the previous Friday. If students have not completed their quiz, they have the opportunity to stop by after school this week to do so. After reviewing their performance, students will work on creating a new SMART Goal for the rest of Unit 1.
Tuesday: Students in class will use Nearpod to review a series of slides and videos in order to explain state-building as it occurred in the regions of South and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Africa. As they move through the Nearpod, students will answer questions and complete activities to retain the knowledge.
Wednesday: In class today students will use a teacher-paced interactive Nearpod to examine the political structure of Europe after the fall of Rome, including the new states and kingdoms of the Vikings, the Byzantines and Carolingian Empire.
Thursday: In class today students will start with a review of learning from the past few days with a game of Gimkit. Then, students will be working through interactive Google activities to analyze the role Feudalism and Manorialism and their impact on European society, politics, and economy.
Friday: In class today students will use Nearpod to participate in a lecture/discussion about the role of religion and how it impacted the society and culture of Europe in this period.
|
KLEIN ISD CAMPUSES ARE CLOSED THROUGH APRIL 10.
|